Gamble-Lomax's work is a poignant reminder of the importance of relationships between Black women. She and her muses display powerful vulnerability as they share their pain, their joys, and ultimately their passion for mentorship, inspiring us all to be more present in the lives of Black youth.

Kimberly Griffin, University of Maryland

Wyletta Gamble-Lomax is a "mentoring muse" personified as she lives out the metaphor she creates to "show" mentoring in its transformative potential. She "un-silences" the dialogue between African American women mentors and their African American adolescent charges through the "care-full" power of phenomenological naming. The call for "community pedagogues" sheds new light on what it truly means to care as the tension between distrust and trust is lived out in this dialogical struggle. Mentoring dwells in this poetic place between.

Francine Hultgren, University of Maryland

Dr. Gamble’s work is absolutely necessary and provides a rare and much-needed glimpse into lives of Black women and how they traverse “traditional” and non-traditional educational spaces. She (re)centers critical voices that are often relegated to the margins and underscores these narratives with a thoughtful and rich spirit of humanity.

Steve D. Mobley, University of Alabama