Laura G. Daughtery, Ph.D.
The process of completing the dissertation is a singular solitary task. One is incredibly alone on this intense journey towards the mountain top. Because of our humanness we carry the old familiar doubts and insecurities that sometimes threaten to block the path or...
Shona N. Jackson, Ph.D.
After completing my course work for my doctorate at Stanford University, I relocated from California to the Washington, D.C. area. A few months later I returned to campus to defend my dissertation proposal. After a successful defense, I assumed that it would be a...
Koritha Mitchell, Ph.D.
When I joined SisterMentors, I had been in a 6-month writing slump. I was depressed and desperate for a way to end my writer's block so that I could free myself from graduate school and earn a decent living. I knew that the group would help me with goal-setting, and I...
Losang Rabgey, Ph.D.
I am deeply grateful to SisterMentors for creating a wonderful cohort that helped me to complete my doctorate. As one of the few Tibetan women in the West, and the first in my family, to earn a doctorate, I am honored to have been a part of this wonderful program. I...
Jessica Floyd, Ph.D.
Dr. Floyd on SisterMentors: I was blessed to find SisterMentors by happenstance. It was one day while I was researching literature for my dissertation that I fell upon a dissertation abstract written by a SisterMentors graduate. I searched her name on the Internet,...
Adriane Williams, Ph.D.
Dr. Williams on SisterMentors: When I heard the word "congratulations" come out of my advisor's mouth after my dissertation defense, I paused in disbelief. I actually asked him if he was joking. I could not believe that this journey was almost over. I had successfully...
Calandra Tate, Ph.D.
Dr. Tate on SisterMentors: There is a saying that some things may not happen when you want them to but that they come right on time. As contradictory as this may seem, it happens to be true much more often than not. That was certainly the case for my happenstance...
LaNitra Berger, Ph.D.
Dr. Berger on SisterMentors: Although my writing group at Duke focused on helping each of us complete our dissertation through written feedback, SisterMentors was a different kind of group. Its focus on helping women to set realistic yet attainable goals based on a...
Lynda C. Jackson, Ph.D.
Dr. Jackson on SisterMentors: As a retired Air Force Colonel, I was accustomed to setting and meeting goals that led to success and personal achievement. Achieving my doctorate degree was one of my life-long goals. Yet, I soon learned that this goal was like no other....
Tisha Y. Lewis Ellison, Ph.D.
Dr. Lewis on SisterMentors: In 2006, I came back to the Washington, D.C. area to start anew. Just shy of completing the first part of my comprehensive examinations, I was unmotivated, lacked determination, and was distraught over the idea of people who were suggesting...
Jennifer N. Bacon, Ph.D.
Dr. Bacon on SisterMentors As women doctoral candidates of color, we face unique struggles, challenges and obstacles that must be addressed and overcome. In order to succeed in an environment from which African American women and other individuals of color have been...
Gendering Negritude with Shireen Lewis
Listen on Kalamu ya Salaam’s information blog ▶ Dr. Shireen K. Lewis joined the show this week to discuss her work on Black women and Negritude. Her book Race, Culture, and Identity: Francophone West African and Caribbean Literature and Theory from Negritude to...
Lewis ’89 is Ebony “Unsung Hero”
Originally published in UVA Lawyer - Fall 2009 - View Original Article Dr. Shireen Lewis '89 received an “Unsung Hero" award from Ebony magazine, for making a difference for children, schools, and communities. Lewis is the executive director of EduSeed and founder of...
Minority women pursuing their Ph.D.’s mentor one another
SisterMentors was featured in the March 2007 issue of Inside Higher Ed Read full article Here When you think of a Ph.D., “you think of a man standing in front of the room teaching," says Roxie Jairrels, a high school senior from Alexandria, Va. who hopes to push that...
Dr Shireen Lewis – The Trinidad Guardian Feature
By Laura Dowrich-Phillips Obtaining a doctorate is different from getting a bachelor’s or masters degree. For one thing, the duration of time it takes to get a doctorate is longer, seven to ten years on average. Then there’s the research, which, depending on the...
Tibetan Woman Makes History as One of First in West to Earn Doctorate
Losang Rabgey made history on March 1, 2006 as one of the first Tibetan women in the West to earn a doctorate. Rabgey was awarded her doctorate in Feminist Anthropology from the University of London, England. A participant in EduSeed's SisterMentors nonprofit program...
Duke Magazine Mini-Profile on SisterMentors
When Shireen Lewis entered grade school in Trinidad and Tobago, her country was in its early years of independence from Great Britain. Fortunately, it had a leader who acted on the maxim that educating its young people was essential to a successful future for the young Caribbean nation.
Leader of D.C. Nonprofit Honored by College for Distinguished Achievement
WASHINGTON, DC---Dr. Shireen Lewis, Executive Director of EduSeed and Founder of EduSeed's SisterMentors program, was honored by Douglass College on April 13, 2005, for her outstanding contribution to the education and mentoring of women and girls of color. Douglass...
Shireen Lewis, Entre solidarité et générosité
Qu’ont en commun Losang, la Tibétaine, Najat, la Saoudienne et Kangbai, l’Africaine? Elles font parties du programme de SisterMentors, une organisation basée à Washington, qui encourage l’éducation parmi les femmes et les jeunes filles de couleur.
Shireen Lewis, Between Solidarity and Generosity
by Sabrina Pollard In January 2003 SisterMentors was featured in DIVAS 35, a magazine for women of color, published in Paris, France. DIVAS is distributed in France, the United States, Martinique, and Guadeloupe. You can also read the article in French. What do women...