ABSTRACT
To truly do academic careers differently, we must listen to the voices for whom higher education was not meant; we must examine the ways that the underlying framework of colonial Eurocentrism persists, and limits the full participation of Academics of Color, whom we have affectionately named the Collective Academic in the work. Here we provide an overview of a critical arts-based narrative approach to unpacking the experiences of Academics of Color and interweave the reflexive experiences of our white junior scholar allies, as they observed the ongoing oppression in higher education. We present a conversation across two worlds, that of the Collective Academic and of white junior scholar allies. We invite you to take a look around and see where you might find yourself in the story as it unfolds.
