Institutions of higher education strive to create a diverse, inclusive, and civically engaged student body. Encouraging students to critically engage in social justice enhances the ability of universities to achieve these desired outcomes and empirical studies link activism to greater gains in civic engagement and democratic ideas later in life (Mayhew, Bowman, Rockenbach, Seifert, & Wolniak, 2016;Pascarella & Terenzini, 2005). Advocacy and allyship provide avenues of participation for students to critically engage in social justice and subsequently practice civic engagement through aligning their values and actions.
DEDICATIONTo my participants who show up and fight injustice.To all people who work for liberation.
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