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Letters to My Sisters & Brothers 19

Letters To My Sisters & Brothers: Practical Advice to Successfully Navigate Academia is a workbook specifically designed with culturally relevant advice and evidence-based exercises to help students of color thrive. Students of color face several obstacles while in college and/or graduate school: low levels of institutional support, discrimination, and feeling unwelcome on campus. These factors negatively impact students' academic performance, mental health, retention, and graduation rates. Completing this workbook is a pivotal step towards overcoming these barriers and achieving academic success. Inside this workbook, readers will find: 1) Culturally relevant advice from current students of color, 2) Evidence-based activities to help put their guidance into practice, and 3) Coloring pages for additional self-care. Letters to my Sisters & Brothers: Practical Advice to Successfully Navigate Academia as a Student of Color contains a collection of online responses from a survey of current undergraduate and graduate students of color across the United States who were asked to provide advice to incoming students of color on how to navigate higher education. These students offer their insight, experiences, and encouragement to aid you along your academic journey. Accompanying their testimonies, the end of each section contains an activity created to better put their advice into practice.