Womanism Empowering Black Women and Girls Counseling Lab

WEB Lab Objectives

• Conduct qualitative, quantitative, and critical examinations of counseling issues impacting black women and girls through an intersectional womanist lens.
• Develop and validate new counseling assessments grounded in womanist theory and epistemology.
• Publish womanist scholarship on the counseling needs, dynamics, and interventions for black women and girls.
• Mentor and train emerging womanist researchers in counselor education, including students, through collaborative projects.
• Develop community-academic research partnerships aligned with womanist principles to study counseling interventions and programs for black women and girls.
• Disseminate womanist counseling research through conferences, lectures, webinars, and other platforms.
• Evaluate counseling policies, programs, and practices for alignment with womanist ethics and values.
• Translate and apply womanist counseling research to advance social justice and empowerment of black women and girls.

Current Projects

Affinity Group Research Piece
A qualitative research project about the experiences of students who participated in an African American Women's affinity group that ran for 4 years. (Submitted for Review)

Affinity Group Conceptual Piece
A conceptual project that focuses on the model and theory that was used in developing the On-Site Womanist Affinity Group.  

Womanism and Black Girls in K-12 schools Conceptual Piece
A conceptual project that illuminates how school counselors and school mental health practitioners can apply womanism counseling to support black girls.

National Affinity Group Conceptual Piece
A conceptual project that exemplifies the model and theory that was used in developing the National Womanist Affinity Group.  

Antiracism Scale
A quantitative factor analysis study that focuses on developing a scale that measures Antiracism Pedagogical Strategies in Higher Education.

Antiracism Hiring Practices
A qualitative research study that examines the experiences of African American women School Counselor Educators in antiracist hiring practices.  

Affiliated National Initiatives

• National Affinity Group for Black Women in Counselor Education
• ACES Womanist Colloquium
• National Black Women in Counselor Education GroupMe
• Affiliate for the Melanin Scholars: A Womanist Writing Retreat Experience
   

National Presentations

Hill Roseboro, A., Haskins, N., & Morrison, C. (2023).  Black women deans in the vanguard for equality at HBCUs from 1910-1960. Presented at the Research & Creative Activity International Hybrid Symposium, Montgomery, Alabama.

Haskins, N., & Chin, P. (2023).  Antiracist Hiring: A Phenomenological Study of Black Women Counselor Educators. Presented at the American Counseling Association Conference, Toronto, Canada.

Coker, A.D., Arredondo, P. M., Shillingford, A., Hyun, J.H., & Haskins, N. (2023). Women of Color in Counselor Education Leadership: Bridging Past, Present, and Future. Presented at the American Counseling Association Conference, Toronto, Canada.

Haskins, N., Lamar, M. R., Duncan, K., & Rosen, N. (2023). ACES Women in Leadership: Planning for the Future. Presented at the American Counseling Association Conference, Toronto, Canada.

Smith, S., West-Olatunji, C., Haskins, N. (2022). The BIPOC Panel: Counselor Education and Supervision and Supporting Faculty and Students of Color. Presented at the North Atlantic Association for Counselor Education and Supervision Conference, Pittsburg, PA.

Lee., A., Williams, B., & Haskins, N.  (2021). The Experiences of African American Women in a Writing Retreat. Presented at the Association for Counselor Educators and Supervisors Conference, Atlanta, Georgia. 

St. Germain-Sehr, N., Hermann, M., Perjessey, C., Haskins, N., Wilson, N., & Wright, G. (2021).  Women in Counselor Education:  A Panel Discussion.  Presented at the Association for Counselor Educators and Supervisors Conference, Atlanta, Georgia. 

Hughes, K., & Haskins, N. (2021).  Womanism Experiences in Leadership. Presented at the American Counseling Association Conference, Virtual. 

Chin, P., Lee, A., & Haskins, N. (2021).  Having "The Talk": The Shared Historical Trauma Between Client and Counselor.  Presented at the American Counseling Association Conference, Virtual. 

Haskins, N. (2019). ACES Leadership: Diverse Voices from the Past, Current, and Future Trailblazers.  Presented at the American Counseling Association Conference, New Orleans, LA.

Haskins, N. & Crumb, L. (2019).  Navigating the Tenure Process at Research Institutions in Counselor Education: A Womanist Perspective.  Presented at the American Association of Blacks in Higher Education, Indianapolis, IN.

Haskins, N., Johnson, L., & Pignato, L. (2018).  An exploration of a campus-based affinity group for African American women.  Presented at the American Counseling Association Conference, Atlanta, GA.