Dr. Lisa Huebner is a professor of Women's and Gender Studies at West Chester University. Many predominately white institutions (PWIs) appear to be well-meaning in their efforts at diversity but fail in part by how they define success.

This talk will center the perspectives of self-identified women of color undergraduates, which reveal their struggles and their strength. Collectively, they complicate how PWIs tell stories about diversity, equity, and inclusion and offer lessons and recommendations to higher education administrators, policymakers, and to all of us who care deeply about social justice. It is based on a three-year ethnographic study conducted with a team of student research assistants, most of whom self-identified as women of color. It draws on and contributes to scholarship in critical race feminist theory, intersectionality, and emotional labor.