Identity Interconnections

Aeriel A. Ashlee, PhD (she/her/hers) is assistant professor and graduate director of the college counseling and student development master’s program at St. Cloud State University. Her teaching, scholarship, and activism are guided by her desire and commitment to facilitate healing and liberation in higher education. Prior to becoming faculty, Aeriel had a decade-long career in student affairs. Her research interests include feminist of color pedagogies of healing and transformation, transracial Asian American adoptees’ racialized experiences, and poststructural possibilities for student affairs praxis. Along with peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters, Aeriel is the co-author of an award-winning book on social justice. She earned her master’s degree in college student personnel from the University of Maryland, College Park and her doctoral degree in student affairs and higher education from Miami University (Ohio). Lisa D. Combs (she/her/hers) is currently a doctoral student at The Ohio State University in the Higher Education and Student Affairs program. Prior to Ohio State, she was a Program Coordinator in the Student Diversity and Multicultural Affairs Office at Loyola University Chicago. Prior to working at Loyola University Chicago, Lisa also worked as a Coordinator for Campus Life at Illinois Institute of Technology and as a Graduate Assistant in the Office of Community Engagement and Service at Miami University of Ohio. Lisa’s research interests include identity interconnections, multiraciality in higher education, Filipinx identity development, and deconstructing social constructs around race. Lisa has been published in the Journal of College Student Development and also currently serves as the Co-Chair for the Multiracial Network in ACPA. She received her B.A in Political Science and English from The Ohio State University and her M.S. in Student Affairs in Higher Education from Miami University in Oxford Ohio. Elisa S. Abes is assoc

Foreword -Marc Johnston-Guerrero Acknowledgements Introduction-Aeriel A. Ashlee and Lisa Delacruz Combs 1 Exploring Responsible Stewardship of Identity Innterconnections in Student Development Theorizing-Antonio Duran 2 Interconnections Between Being Both:Exploring Intrapersonal Multiracial and Interfaith Identities -Kelli Campa 3 The Power of a Voice:An Accent as a Portal for Interconnectivity Across Borders and Disabilities-Hoa Bui 4 Impossible Bodies:Exploring Identity Interconnections Between Gender and Ability-Alandis A. Johnson 5 Engaging Identity Interconnections With Compassionate Caution to Inform Aspiring Allyship and Coalition Building Between Multiracial and Trans* Identities-Kamrie J. Risku 6 Using Identity Interconnections to Understand Disclosure:How Examining the Interrelated Experiences of Working-Class Students and Students with Disabilities can Shape Student Support -Genia M. Bettencourt 7 Too Much and Not Enough:Exploring Identity Interconnections Between Biracial and Bisexual Students in Higher Education-Rebecca Cepeda and Kaity Prieto 8 Identity Interconnections Between Masculinity and Whiteness:A Tool for Developing Critical Consciousness and Inspiring Social Justice Action-Kyle C. Ashlee and Brandon Cash 9 Identity Interconnections, Coalitions, and Possibilities:Lessons from the Creation of an Asian Pacific Islander Middle Eastern Desi American Service Office -Windi N. Sasaki 10 Missed Connections:The Complicated Nature of Listening -Kia Rivera and Michelle Wallace Afterword -Elisa S. Abes Editors and Contributors Index