ABSTRACT
This chapter describes the experiences of an international, inter-generational group of culturally diverse women who are higher education research leadersn. People have collaborated in the planning, data collection, analysis, and dissemination of research into students who are First in the Family at University (FIFU), a project funded by the Worldwide Universities Network (WUN). People have realized that our cross-cultural collaboration and negotiation in this leadership team have been as valuable as the research itself. The approach of our FIFU project is from a strengths-based and global perspective to tell multiple narratives of how this group of students experience higher education. The project looks afresh at the experience of first-generation students in higher education. Past higher education research has largely reinforced perceptions of brown people as burdened by culture, having less, and being somewhere between victim and blame or has ignored or minimized issues of race and inequity.
