1st Edition

Storying Leadership for Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Reconceiving Research Dynamics

Edited By Ambika Gopal Raj, Socorro Orozco Copyright 2025
280 Pages 13 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

280 Pages 13 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

280 Pages 13 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book positions the concept of Storying as integral to leadership in qualitative research, drawing on a wide range of studies and perspectives by diverse, minoritized leaders. Presenting stories of leadership, resistance, diversity, and cultural wealth, these chapters highlight “problems of practice” from Latinx, Black, and BIPOC administrators, special education teachers, EOP community... Read more

Foreword

Lois Andre-Bechely

Preface

Ambika Gopal Raj and Socorro Orozco

Acknowledgements

List of Contributors

Part I Theorizing Storying as Empowering Methodology

1. Storying Conceptions of Leadership

Ambika Gopal Raj

2. Teaching and Researching with Storying: An Epistemic Quest

Socorro Orozco

3.  They Know That We Are Powerful: Place, Ways of Knowing, and Leadership

Marie C. Vea and Kunal Palawat

4. Parables of Resilience: Storying Black Women Early Childhood Leaders’ Lived Experiences

Meghan L. Green, Alissa Mwenelupembe, and Kelly Ramsey

5. Innovating Institutions: Writing New Stories of Educational Leadership

Madhu Narayanan

6. “What’s wrong with being Gay?”: Queer Storying in Educational Leadership

Chrissy Constant

Part II Storying Practices of Culturally Situated Leadership

7. Latin American Leader-Educators Counterstorying for Social Justice for Designated English Learners

Sophia Piral Lee

8. Storying Leadership Through Re/Creating Hidden Structures: Educational Journey Maps and Un/Settling Counter Narratives

Ambre T. Lee

9. Storying as Leadership: Multilingual Parents as Authors and Community Leaders

Laura B. Liu, Anakarína Hurtado, Nancy 純子 Boatner, Karol M. Espinoza Romero, Karen Garrity and A’ame Joslin

10. Voices of a Silenced Community: Testimonios of Undocumented Parents of Young Children

Norma L. Castillo

11. Emerging Mexican American/Chicano Leadership Through Perseverance, Ganas y Corazón

Joseph A. Sandoval

12. Changing the Terms of Our Lease: Positionality, Identity, and Renegotiating Space

Meghan Buchanan, Jennifer Bailey Watters, Kyle Allen-Sanchez and Dwight Perry

Part III Empowering Leadership through Storying

13. The Legacy of Dean Penny: Testimonios of Multi-Generational Women Leaders

Katrina Struloeff, Karena A. Escalante, Kimberly Sterin and Ayana Allen-Handy

14. Storying as an Empowering Pedagogy in Leadership Preparation Programs

Antoinette M. Ryan, Wesley L. C. Henry and Paula M. Talty

15. Storying the Experiences of Black Mothers to Advance Maternal Health

Toncé Jackson

16. A Framework for Storying Leadership: A Conversation between Colleagues

Ambika Gopal Raj, Lois Andre-Bechely and Socorro Orozco

 

Biography

Ambika Gopal Raj is Professor of Storying and Pedagogy in Educational Leadership in the Division of Curriculum and Instruction at California State University, Los Angeles, USA.

Socorro Orozco is Assistant Professor in Mathematics Education and STEM Leadership in the Division of Curriculum and Instruction at California State University, Los Angeles, USA.