Executive Leadership, Mothering as Women of Color, and the George Floyd Effect

We illuminate the experiences of 15 women uniquely situated at the intersection of race and gender, age, position, and mothering before, since, and because of George Floyd’s murder. Participants were millennial-aged women with young children who held executive or senior leadership roles in higher education and student affairs. We discuss findings through Dill and Zambrana’s four intersectional inventions and offer two implications for practice: supporting women of Color leaders and disrupting inequity to promote change.