I AM A SOCIAL JUSTICE LEADER

Student/Leader/Practitioner Inventory
Validating all voices

How does your program integrate the spectrum of opportunities to be heard

on your campus?
Who develops policies and practices for your program?
What are the opportunities for honest feedback?
Who is participating in your programs?

Disrupt the misappropriation of distributive justice

Do the proposed resources, initiatives, or programs allow a group to

contribute a unique perspective to your enterprise?
Are the proposed resources, initiatives, or programs deployed to reshape
the groups identity?
Does your effort address systemic issues or is it limited to addressing
symptoms of systemic issues?
Who benefits from the resources provided?

Self-awareness of position within systems of privilege,

power, and oppression

How do you practice open and non-judgmental self-awareness?

In what ways do you self reflect and what are the lessons you have learned
from this process?
What support do you need in order to increase your self-awareness?
What areas of self-awareness do you feel most uncomfortable in
addressing?

Valuing the collective and individual assets

Do you often tend to speak first or listen first when discussing an issue?
Leaders must practice self-restraint in talking about themselves and let
others speak freely. How will you prepare yourself and the environment for
promoting non-judgmental receptiveness?
In what ways do you seek further clarification and perspective before
making a decision or forming an opinion?
When analyzing experiences, leaders must often be familiar with macroenvironmental factors that lead to discrimination and oppression; how will
the numerous avenues for learning inform and impact your ability to remain
open and value others assets?
| Developed by Cohort 2013, UMass Boston Higher Education Doctoral
Program

Do you actively invite others to share their perspectives and experiences in

group settings?
How do you create an environment that is open to the ideas, interests, and
assets of others?

Enhance and enrich the human condition through the

empowerment of others

What strategies would you utilize to sustain others desire to contribute in

order to enhance the common good?
How have you encouraged others to find and use their voice?
How will you foster an environment that encourages the expression of
talents and experiences of community members to increase their agency,
creativity, and communication?
When have you relinquished leadership, power, or control? When will you
do so again?
Listening is a principal skill in developing strong relationships with others.
How would you take advantage of constructive questioning in order to
develop respect, trust, and passion with members?
In what ways has your leadership enhanced or enriched the experiences of
others?

| Developed by Cohort 2013, UMass Boston Higher Education Doctoral

Program