Black Women as Coxswains: Allyship Outcomes for Black and White Women in a Participatory Action Research Counterspace Project Developed by Black Women in Higher Education

This study fills an important gap with regard to diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging literature and practice by detailing allyship outcomes associated with an innovative approach to campus diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging programming, known as a Participatory Action Research Counterspace project. Findings from this collaborative autoethnographic study, with seven Black and white women who participated in a diversity training Participatory Action Research Counterspace project called the Unlikely Allies Conference, demonstrated positive outcomes related to each of the conference goals, including redefining Black women's allyship leadership and labor as coxswains and moving white women's allyship from intellectual understanding to prosocial behaviors.