Leading between worlds: how Latino men college students learn and transfer leadership across home and campus communities

The purpose of this narrative study was to uncover how Latino men college students learned to be leaders and how they transfer their leadership knowledge between institutions of higher education and their home communities. A narrative design was used to study the stories of eight Latino men college students. Latina/o Leadership Journey was used as the theoretical framework to guide this study and to answer the two research questions focused on how Latino men college students became leaders and transferred their leadership knowledge within their communities. The findings of this study focused on how Latino men college students learned to be leaders from their family members, and how they transferred their leadership knowledge from home to their campus and vice versa from their campus to their home. Recommendations for practice and future research are also addressed to support the lived experiences of Latino men college students in their process of becoming leaders.