ABSTRACT
This chapter unpacks relationships that are critical to the success of Black women faculty and the varied ways they benefit from mentoring within and across institutions, disciplines, and geospaces. Drawing upon Black feminist thought, we offer a critical duoethnographic account of two Black women faculty at different stages in their professional careers, engaging in co-mentoring to retain one another in the academy. This chapter also illuminates alternative models of co-mentoring that are facilitated by new forms of communication (e.g., Zoom), new institutional demands (i.e., grant productivity), and age-old challenges related to structural axes of power.
