Saturday, February 01, 2014

Twitter Chat Creates Virtual Community for Black Women Ph.D.s - Higher Education

Twitter Chat Creates Virtual Community for Black Women Ph.D.s - Higher Education: An online exchange about the challenges, sacrifices and support systems involved in pursuing a doctorate and life in academia reveals mutual frustrations as well as senses of satisfaction for African-American women.

During a Twitter conversation yesterday on “Black Women the Ph.D.,” hosted by TTG Partners, a communications consultancy that produces monthly Twitter chats to foster communication on diversity and equity issues in higher education, Dr. Natalie T.J. Tindall, associate professor and co-graduate director/area director in the department of communication at Georgia State University, and Dr. Danielle N. Lee, a postdoctoral research associate in the department of zoology, tweeted with numerous women of color with doctorates about the experiences of Black women in the academy and on the Ph.D. track.