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ARDR Capstone Students

Holly Tate

Holly Tate

Nurturing Critical Consciousness in the Pursuit of Critical Consciousness

"My ARDR capstone experience was transformative, a profound exploration into the depths of self-discovery as a critical researcher. The invaluable collaboration with critical friends helped me to navigate personal positions, biases, and power within my research. Dr. Letiecq served as a facilitator of inquiry, allowing me the reflective space not only to interrogate my researcher positionality but also to nurture my criticality through a highly intellectual cycle of reading, discussing, and questioning. My capstone project summarized a semester of personal growth, and the process is one I will hold with me as I continue my work as a critical researcher."

Logo: The ARDR Collaborative, Anti-Racist & Decolonizing Research, Methods for Justice

What is ARDR?

The Anti-Racist and Decolonizing research (ARDR) Collaborative supports the advancement of research methodologies and the administration of the ARDR concentration of the CEHD Research Methods graduate certificate.

What is ARDR's Mission?

Our Mission is...

"To create space for and nurture a collaborative of resistant knowledge creator to disrupt institutions, structures, and mechanisms of inequity and injustice, and reclaim social inquiry to advance justice and peace."

What good work do we hope to foment in the world?

Our Vision is...

  • To stop cultural genocide
  • To sustain democracy, humanity and promote peace
  • To save the species and protect the land
  • To end oppression and marginalization of Black, Indigenous, immigrant and other People of Color
  • To advance critical research and praxis...to take action
  • To promote solidarity and community cohesiveness

Faculty Advisors

ARDR Advisory Board

ARDR Planning Committee

  • Amanda Corso
  • Eden Langston
  • Erin Fay
  • Dr. Leslie La Croix
  • Shaunda Thompson
  • Sophia Wells-Williams

ARDR Affiliates

If you are struggling to find someone in your field, department, or discipline who can act as a sounding board, research partner, or mentor, consider contacting some of our affiliates – people at Mason who have taken our workshops and have self-identified as affiliates.

If you would like to be added to this list and are dedicated to helping lift others in this effort, please contact Marvin Powell or Bethany Letiecq.