40. Help Seeking and Vulnerability for Students
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In this episode, we sit down with Dr. Destiny Williams-Dobosz, a postdoctoral fellow in Educational Psychology. Drawing from her own journey, Dr. Williams-Dobosz shares how personal experience became a doorway into her research on help-seeking among Black women in STEM and first-generation college students. Our conversation explores: The resilience and vulnerability paradigm Redefining success in toxic environments Strategies for asking for help in college settings Ways to foster and support help-seeking behaviors in others You can dive deeper into her work by reading her recent publication: Williams-Dobosz, D. (2025). Storytelling as praxis: Leveraging a Black woman’s critical autoethnography as a first-generation college student to explore inequities and possibilities in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education. Journal of Diversity in Higher Education.
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