Dale Allender, PhD, is an associate professor at Sacramento State University in the Teaching Credentials and Doctorate in Educational Leadership departments. Dr Allender has worked to disrupt anti-Black racism and to promote cultural security since 1995 at schools, treatment centers, universities, and museums throughout the United States, in Dakar, Jerusalem, and Vancouver. Arya Allender-West, MA, is a Ronald E. McNair fellow at CSUS conducting research identifying Black female college students’ successful navigation of microaggression to illuminate the unique obstacles the population faces and provide best practices in advising, as well as to advance goals of non-biased teaching and counselling.