Kenyon Lee Whitman
Biographic Data
| ID | 4556292 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kenyon Lee Whitman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kenyon Lee |
| FAMILY NAME | Whitman |
| SIGNATURE | WHITMAN K L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Nevada, Las Vegas |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Creating Validating Environments for Foster Youth in Higher Education
This study engaged with Foster Youth Support Program (FYSP) staff across a university system to develop an understanding of high-impact practices, when supporting foster youth. Findings reveal the importance of advising that validates students’ needs; student-centered social programming; and validating students through humanized measures of student success. Our recommendations inform practice, policy, and future research. We hope this study will …
It's Not About Blood, It's About Who Shows Up for Me
Utilizing narrative inquiry, this study collected individual interviews to understand how nine Black students who experienced the carceral nexus of foster care navigated college. Utilizing BlackCrit and Community Cultural Wealth as a theoretical framework, findings show how the foster care system was dehumanizing and stripped students of their family privilege. Findings also show how the students resisted the foster care system by (re)defining fa…
Structural Competency
Higher education practices and policies are rooted in racism and imperialism. This causes physical and emotional harm to BIPOC students. Yet, student affairs practitioners and higher education leaders struggle to stay conscious of the relationships between macro structures of oppression and their deleterious educational, economic, health, and social consequences, when it comes time to assess, understand, and intervene in campus crises and raciali…
Resisting a Carceral Institution
Resource parents during two pandemics
The emergence of COVID-19 created a global health crisis and impacted children and families, disproportionately affecting minoritized communities. Simultaneously, protests and anti-racist uprisings against police violence occurred worldwide. This mixed method study examined how a group of racially diverse resource parents navigated these two pandemics. Resource parents (N = 527) in Los Angeles County were surveyed about concerns related to COVID-…
Covid-19 and resource families
Resource parents (n = 527) in Los Angeles County were surveyed about their experiences with COVID-19, comparing the beginning of "Safer-at-Home" to over a year later. The findings reveal increased infection rates, maintained or increased reports of adverse impact and coping challenges, decreased reports of positive impact, and increased access to resources across time points. Compared to White resource parents, Black and Latinx resource parents r…
Covid-19 and resource families
Resource parents (n = 527) in Los Angeles County were surveyed about their experiences with COVID-19, comparing the beginning of "Safer-at-Home" to over a year later. The findings reveal increased infection rates, maintained or increased reports of adverse impact and coping challenges, decreased reports of positive impact, and increased access to resources across time points. Compared to White resource parents, Black and Latinx resource parents r…
Structural Competency
Higher education practices and policies are rooted in racism and imperialism. This causes physical and emotional harm to BIPOC students. Yet, student affairs practitioners and higher education leaders struggle to stay conscious of the relationships between macro structures of oppression and their deleterious educational, economic, health, and social consequences, when it comes time to assess, understand, and intervene in campus crises and raciali…
Resisting a Carceral Institution
Resource parents during two pandemics
The emergence of COVID-19 created a global health crisis and impacted children and families, disproportionately affecting minoritized communities. Simultaneously, protests and anti-racist uprisings against police violence occurred worldwide. This mixed method study examined how a group of racially diverse resource parents navigated these two pandemics. Resource parents (N = 527) in Los Angeles County were surveyed about concerns related to COVID-…
Covid-19 and resource families
Resource parents (n = 527) in Los Angeles County were surveyed about their experiences with COVID-19, comparing the beginning of "Safer-at-Home" to over a year later. The findings reveal increased infection rates, maintained or increased reports of adverse impact and coping challenges, decreased reports of positive impact, and increased access to resources across time points. Compared to White resource parents, Black and Latinx resource parents r…
Creating Validating Environments for Foster Youth in Higher Education
This study engaged with Foster Youth Support Program (FYSP) staff across a university system to develop an understanding of high-impact practices, when supporting foster youth. Findings reveal the importance of advising that validates students’ needs; student-centered social programming; and validating students through humanized measures of student success. Our recommendations inform practice, policy, and future research. We hope this study will …
It's Not About Blood, It's About Who Shows Up for Me
Utilizing narrative inquiry, this study collected individual interviews to understand how nine Black students who experienced the carceral nexus of foster care navigated college. Utilizing BlackCrit and Community Cultural Wealth as a theoretical framework, findings show how the foster care system was dehumanizing and stripped students of their family privilege. Findings also show how the students resisted the foster care system by (re)defining fa…
Psychology (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Child Welfare and Adoption (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Coping (psychology (2 works) · Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19 (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Higher education (2 works) · Homelessness and Social Issues (2 works) · Law (2 works)