ABSTRACT
Critical resistance to the silo structures that most colleges and universities put in place around social justice and diversity work, therefore, necessitates critical understanding of the importance of particular leadership roles and deep relationships. Applied critical leadership (APL), with its grounding in the work of transformational leadership, critical pedagogy, and critical race theory sheds light on the lunch in ways that illuminate the relationships beyond silos and into synergies. Trust, dialogue, and learning, when understood over a significant period of time, began to emerge as the key components to understanding silos to synergies in light of further analysis through a lens of applied critical leadership. Over the last 50 years, women's centers, ethnic-specific and/or multi-/cross-cultural centers, and Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender (LGBT) resource centers have been established in higher education institutions throughout the nation. Autoethnographic portraiture blends two current methodologies in education research: autoethnography and portraiture.
