Volume 15, Number 3, Winter 2020

Coupling Degrees, Breaking the Silence, and Seeing What I Can Be

AUTHOR:

• Amira C. Jessie, B.A., Jackson State University, Jackson, MS

ABSTRACT

This paper provides a Black student’s perspective as she finds her voice through her dual undergraduate degrees in Speech and Hearing Science and Comparative Ethnic Studies. The paper follows her development through graduate school as she encounters her first Black professors and mentors. Her graduate experience culminates with the student using her voice effectively to combat racism in her graduate program with her peers and in her clinical environments.

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