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. 2024 Jun;8(1 Spec Iss):45-56.
doi: 10.62935/ri4880.

Transforming Science Research Through Liberatory Race-conscious Mentorship: The BUILD PODER Professional Development Modules

Jose H Vargas  1 , José M Paez  1 , Will Garrow  1 , Carrie L Saetermoe  1
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Transforming Science Research Through Liberatory Race-conscious Mentorship: The BUILD PODER Professional Development Modules

Jose H Vargas et al. Chron Mentor Coach. 2024 Jun.

Abstract

BUILD is a NIH initiative designed to retain underrepresented undergraduates in biomedicine. Of the 10 BUILD sites, BUILD PODER is the only space-and-place that approaches this initiative through the framework of critical race theory (CRT). A feature of BUILD PODER's path to student empowerment is liberatory race-conscious mentorship. Researchers developed, implemented, and evaluated a quintipartite CRT-based antiracist-anticolonial online training program for biomedical educators nationwide. We review the social scientific and historical knowledge used to create these novel mentorship training modules. We describe the modular content and activities. We also report evaluation data obtained during beta-testing and outline how this information helped finalize the product. Discussed are the individual- and institutional-level implications of modularizing the developmental process of liberatory race consciousness.

Keywords: critical race theory; liberation psychology; mentorship; pushout problem; race/racism.

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Disclosure Statement: No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.

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Sample Screenshots of the BUILD PODER Professional development modules
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Illustration of the Staggered Pretest-Posttest Quasi-experimental Design
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