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First-Generation College Students: Fostering Academic Success Through Counseling Services and Res... more First-Generation College Students: Fostering Academic Success Through Counseling Services and Resources Presenters: Andrea Bueno, April Martin Chartrand, and Virginia Rosales A FGCS is typically defined as a student with neither parent or legal guardian who has attended a four-year college. In the Fall of 2015 the SFSU entering freshman class was comprised of 37% FGCS.

Women of color who are Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Questioning, and Intersex, (WO... more Women of color who are Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Questioning, and Intersex, (WOCLGBTQQII) are subject to the imposed worldview and are Subcultured, Racialized, and Marginalized within the culturally hegemonic workforce. Current research reveals that gender, sexual orientation, and race intersect with and are subject to consistent stigmatization by the heteronormative workplace. The WOCLGBTQQII populations are disproportionately burdened with workplace Stereotype Threat, pink ceiling barriers, hostilities, and systemic oppression that limit their career options. Although there are multiple issues which adversely affects this population, for the purpose of this paper the main focus will be on workplace discrimination based on sexual orientation and race. This paper will be framed by exploring Culturally Appropriate Career Counseling and Stereotype Threat theory. These two theoretical career counseling competencies will examine the world of the WOCLGBTQQII client by o...

The objective of this ethnographic research is to offer an introductory summary of a Subculture W... more The objective of this ethnographic research is to offer an introductory summary of a Subculture Within A Subculture... This research will endeavor to offer powerful social and historical content for the subject’s social emergence, seek to demystify Fetish/Kink/Bondage, Dominance, Sadism, Masochism (BDSM), to challenge the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM-5) Paraphilic and Paraphilic Disorder, reframe the A & B diagnostic criteria classifications, to explore the subject’s underground lifestyle from a psychosocial point of view, to offer sixteen (N=16) personal interview findings from sexually variant women of color in the fetish/BDSM lifestyle, and to advocate for inclusive sex-positive awareness acceptance.

1. Why is it difficult to challenge oppression in your clinical practice personal lives, and comm... more 1. Why is it difficult to challenge oppression in your clinical practice personal lives, and community? 2. What steps are you taking to actively disrupt the cycle of oppression to reduce micro aggression in your clinical work and in your life?3. Do you actively develop friendships with people who don’t share your social identities to unearth stereotypes and to become aware of unconscious prejudice?

'Subcultured, Racialized, and Marginalized' Women of color who are Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual... more 'Subcultured, Racialized, and Marginalized' Women of color who are Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Questioning, and Intersex, (WOCLGBTQQII) are subject to the imposed worldview and are Subcultured, Racialized , and Marginalized within the culturally hegemonic workforce. Current research reveals that gender, sexual orientation, and race intersect with and are subject to consistent stigmatization by the heteronormative workplace. The WOCLGBTQQII populations are disproportionately burdened with workplace Stereotype Threat, pink ceiling barriers, hostilities, and systemic oppressions that limit their career options. Although there are multiple issues which adversely affect this population, for the purpose of this paper the main focus will be on workplace discrimination based on sexual orientation and race. This paper will be framed by exploring Culturally Appropriate Career Counseling and Stereotype Threat theory. These two theoretical career counseling competencies ...

Abstract: The objective of this ethnographic research is to offer an introductory summary of a Su... more Abstract: The objective of this ethnographic research is to offer an introductory summary of a Subculture Within A Subculture... This research will endeavor to offer powerful social and historical content for the subject’s social emergence, seek to demystify Fetish/Kink/ Bondage, Dominance, Sadism, Masochism (BDSM), to challenge the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM-5) Paraphilic and Paraphilic Disorder, reframe the A & B diagnostic criteria classifications, to explore the subject’s underground lifestyle from a psychosocial point of view, to offer sixteen (N=16) personal interview findings from sexually variant women of color in the fetish/BDSM lifestyle, and to advocate for inclusive sex-positive awareness acceptance.

ANGEL’S DESTINY A NOVEL STORY OF POEMS & ILLUSTRATIONS by April Martin Chartrand, M.S. , 2019

ANGEL’S DESTINY A NOVEL STORY OF POEMS & ILLUSTRATIONS by April Martin Chartrand, M.S. (2019/2009... more ANGEL’S DESTINY A NOVEL STORY OF POEMS & ILLUSTRATIONS by April Martin Chartrand, M.S. (2019/2009)

INTRODUCTION

One main factor that binds one in an abusive relationship is relative to how one views herself and it is through self-awareness that we are able to break through our silence. Here in ‘Angel’s Destiny’, we find the inner working thoughts as a meditation on love and hate. A yin and yang of human behavior caught between mysticism, metaphysics and the principles of what the Gods, Goddesses, Angels and the Saints of Our Muse offers us when one uses their voice and pen as a weapon against violence. In its illustrations we find signs and symbols of transformative powers of the cosmos.

Ensconced in April Martin Chartrand’s destiny we find a rare gem of a novel story of poetry that digs deep into the inner core of the soul, manifesting a deep reflection on the nature of violence. She calls on the greatest sages of our times: Thich Nhat Hanh, Dalai Lama, and even contemporaries as Louise Hay, Ruth King, Eckhart Tolle and Iyanla Vanzant all of whose philosophical underpinnings are sprinkled throughout this book and tells the tale of tension and conflict as an arc of violence and creates a spectacle with a cast of characters as told through emotions. What’s key to unlocking this compendium of poetry is when the door opens on the prisoners of violence, we witness the heroic act of breaking free from ones executioner. This spiritual consciousness is verisimilitude at its best, and it offers us psychological medicine.
The poems are richly crafted in rhyme and meter and some told in the style of epigrams and others in longer stanzas that demonstrate through irony, sarcasm and wit, the illusions of anger, the attention of awareness and the offering of love where we find the archetype role each of us plays out in our own drama. Deception that hides behind violence unveils the lie of the mind and the maddening silence that traps the soul of its victims as prey. But Chartrand awakens the souls of the dead and shows us how parts of one’s self lost and is now found in the arms of an Angel.

Through poems like ‘Angel’s Destiny’ we find sheer power and in My River Iguazú there is a self-crafted identity Goddess Siddhu that illuminates and offers inner strength and the value and strength of finding the goddess in ourselves. Chartrand tells her readers that To Be a Poetess is akin to being a priestess and after having been at war she comes out of battle brandishing her shield of honor and courage as redemption. This act of poetry is an allegorical spin of moral lessons for all of us.

In the last section, the most visual and reflective, she says “I’ve been sent here to tell you my overdue story of redemption and salvation in a world of symbolism syntax and pretext.” This is a great read and metaphor reflecting historical and contemporary slavery that will reach a wide audience where we hear the cries of cultural violence and its echoes for which we have all experienced. I commend and congratulate Ms. Chartrand on her courage and character that speaks the truth about the unwavering human condition.

~Imani Harrington, Writer and Playwright
October 7, 2009

'A SACRED BEAUTIFUL Natural Heritage Hair: An African Diasporan Photo Exposé', 2018

Curator, Chartrand posits that the underlying inspiration for A Sacred Beautiful… exhibition was ... more Curator, Chartrand posits that the underlying inspiration for A Sacred Beautiful… exhibition was inspired by curatorial research of the "reclamation of our hair-itage," the global African Diasporan Natural Hair Movement - birthed in the 20th century, and to bring attention to the dreadful Louisianan 1786 Tignon Law.

CURATOR’S STATEMENT The three principal zeitgeist artists of A Sacred Beautiful - Natural Heri... more CURATOR’S STATEMENT

The three principal zeitgeist artists of A Sacred Beautiful - Natural Heritage Hair: An African Diasporan Photo Exposé – KaliMa Amilak, Nye’ Lyn Tho, and Egyptsia Mcgillvery establish themselves as cultural zeitgeist spirits; by using the novel visual language of the natural hair movement cultural iconoclasts. According to April Martin Chartrand, M.S., Curator and Researcher for this exhibition, these creative hair iconoclasts create paradigm shifts in consciousness, embody keen sensibilities, and usher in the acceptability of presenting diverse ways of being, through their prolific visual aesthetic lens. Creating exquisite Diasporan textural imagery, AmiLak and Tho, aspirational photographers, and Mcgillvery, Natural Hair Movement designers embodying Ma’atian cultural consciousness, and are paradigm shape-shifters. In essence, these new-day shape-shifters embrace visionary sensibilities, and illuminate the acceptability of presenting diverse ways of existing in the world. Finally, Chartrand’s underlying inspiration for A Sacred Beautiful exhibition was inspired by curatorial research of the "reclamation of our hair-itage," the global African Diasporan Natural Hair Movement - birthed in the 20th century, and to bring attention to the dreadful Louisianan 1786 Tignon Law.

'A SACRED BEAUTIFUL
Natural Heritage Hair: An African Diasporan Photo Exposé'
San Francisco Human Rights Commission* | 25 Van Ness Ave., 8th Floor, SF, CA| AUG. 30 – OCT. 2, 2018
Mon. - Fri. | 9am -12noon— 1pm-4pm | Cost: Free & open to the public |
FEATURING
KaliMa AmiLak & Nye’ Lyn Tho, Photographers
Egyptsia Mcgillvery, Natural Hair Practitioner Collaborator
April Martin Chartrand, M.S., Curator & Researcher

The three principal zeitgeist artists of A Sacred Beautiful - Natural Heritage Hair: An African D... more The three principal zeitgeist artists of A Sacred Beautiful - Natural Heritage Hair: An African Diasporan Photo Exposé – KaliMa Amilak, Nye’ Lyn Tho, and Egyptsia Mcgillvery establish themselves as cultural zeitgeist spirits; by using the novel visual language of the natural hair movement cultural iconoclasts. According to April Martin Chartrand, M.S., Curator and Researcher for this exhibition, these creative hair iconoclasts create paradigm shifts in consciousness, embody keen sensibilities, and usher in the acceptability of presenting diverse ways of being, through their prolific visual aesthetic lens. Creating exquisite Diasporan textural imagery, AmiLak and Tho, aspirational photographers, and Mcgillvery, Natural Hair Movement designers embodying Ma’atian cultural consciousness, and are paradigm shape-shifters. In essence, these new-day shape-shifters embrace visionary sensibilities, and illuminate the acceptability of presenting diverse ways of existing in the world. Finally, Chartrand’s underlying inspiration for A Sacred Beautiful exhibition was inspired by curatorial research of the "reclamation of our hair-itage," the global African Diasporan Natural Hair Movement - birthed in the 20th century, and to bring attention to the dreadful Louisianan 1786 Tignon Law.

April Martin Chartrand: The Case of Mr Sugarpudding Case Study Presentation Norman Meshriy, Inst... more April Martin Chartrand: The Case of Mr Sugarpudding
Case Study Presentation

Norman Meshriy, Instructor| COUN 891 San Francisco State University 4/11/2017

Community Star: The Interactive Art of Storytelling Stars & Charms April Martin Chartrand, Prese... more Community Star: The Interactive Art of Storytelling Stars & Charms

April Martin Chartrand, Presenter
May 2nd, 2017
COUN 891 | N. Meshiry, Instructor | SFSU

The Case of Mr. BASKETBALL-April Martin Chartrand, M.S. College/Career Candidate (2017) Presenta... more The Case of Mr. BASKETBALL-April Martin Chartrand, M.S. College/Career Candidate (2017)
Presentation for Norman Meshriy, Instructor| COUN 890
San Francisco State University Dept. of Counseling, 2016

A FGCS is typically defined as a student with neither parent or legal guardian who has attended a four-year college.
In the Fall of 2015 the SFSU entering freshman class was comprised of 37% FGCS.

The “Community Star”workshop is to support First-Generation Students’ Adjustment to College (FGCS... more The “Community Star”workshop is to support First-Generation Students’ Adjustment to College (FGCS) adjustment to College life. The FGCS workshop will help you explore and identify current and new networks of social support and academic support.

ANGEL’S DESTINY A NOVEL STORY OF POEMS & ILLUSTRATIONS by April Martin Chartrand, M.S. , 2019

INTRODUCTION

~Imani Harrington, Writer and Playwright
October 7, 2009

'A SACRED BEAUTIFUL Natural Heritage Hair: An African Diasporan Photo Exposé', 2018

CURATOR’S STATEMENT The three principal zeitgeist artists of A Sacred Beautiful - Natural Heri... more CURATOR’S STATEMENT

April Martin Chartrand: The Case of Mr Sugarpudding Case Study Presentation Norman Meshriy, Inst... more April Martin Chartrand: The Case of Mr Sugarpudding
Case Study Presentation

Norman Meshriy, Instructor| COUN 891 San Francisco State University 4/11/2017

Community Star: The Interactive Art of Storytelling Stars & Charms April Martin Chartrand, Prese... more Community Star: The Interactive Art of Storytelling Stars & Charms

April Martin Chartrand, Presenter
May 2nd, 2017
COUN 891 | N. Meshiry, Instructor | SFSU

A FGCS is typically defined as a student with neither parent or legal guardian who has attended a four-year college.
In the Fall of 2015 the SFSU entering freshman class was comprised of 37% FGCS.

ANGEL’S DESTINY A NOVEL STORY OF POEMS & ILLUSTRATIONS by April Martin Chartrand, M.S., 2019

INTRODUCTION By Imani Harrington (2009)
One main factor that binds one in an abusive relationship is relative to how one views herself and it is through self-awareness that we are able to break through our silence. Here in ‘Angel’s Destiny’, we find the inner working thoughts as a meditation on love and hate. A yin and yang of human behavior caught between mysticism, metaphysics and the principles of what the Gods, Goddesses, Angels and the Saints of Our Muse offers us when one uses their voice and pen as a weapon against violence. In its illustrations we find signs and symbols of transformative powers of the cosmos.

~Imani Harrington, Writer and Playwright
October 7, 2009

~A soulful collection of thought provoking poems & illustrations spanning a rich spectrum of emot... more ~A soulful collection of thought provoking poems & illustrations spanning a rich spectrum of emotions from illusions love.~

ANGEL'S DESTINY: A Novel Story of Poems & Illustrations by April Martin Chartrand. Similar to novel style chapters, each advances you from one stage of life's emotions to another. This collection of poems & illustrations mimics a novel in an unexpected way similarly, it tells an emotional plot of a character which interweaves the four emotion elements Illusions, Anger, Awareness, Love - progressing forward towards a healing resolve. Each emotional character takes the reader through a progressive journey of a multi-cultural womens self-discovery . . . far away from adversity.

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A SACRED BEAUTIFUL Natural Heritage Hair: An African Diasporan Photo Exposé- Aspirational Conversations, 2018

A SACRED BEAUTIFUL Natural Heritage Hair: An African Diasporan Photo Exposé- Aspirational Conver... more A SACRED BEAUTIFUL Natural Heritage Hair: An African Diasporan Photo Exposé- Aspirational Conversations August 18, 2018

Featuring:
KaliMa AmiLak, Photographer
Nye Lyn Tho, Photographer & Designer
Egyptsia Mcgillvery, Natural Hair Practitioner
April Martin Chartrand, M.S., Curator and Researcher Curator & Researcher

Abstract:
Curator, Chartrand posits that the underlying inspiration for A Sacred Beautiful… exhibition was inspired by curatorial research of the "reclamation of our hair-itage," the global African Diasporan Natural Hair Movement - birthed in the 20th century, and to bring attention to the dreadful Louisianan 1786 Tignon Law.

Utilizing Dr. Janet Helms’ White Racial Identity Development Model as Counselors of Color: Suppor... more Utilizing Dr. Janet Helms’ White Racial Identity Development Model as Counselors of Color: Supporting White Students by April Martin Chartrand, Andrea Bueno, Doris Garcia, Ivan Silva
San Francisco State University

Only recently have researchers begun to examine the development of White identity, Dr. Janet Helms introduced her theory of White Racial Identity Development (WRID) in 1984 to add to this discourse.

"This paper will explore the importance of understanding Dr. Janet Helm’s White Racial Identity D... more "This paper will explore the importance of understanding Dr. Janet Helm’s White Racial Identity Development (WRID) model when used by Counselors of Color. The WRID model is an effective framework for counseling interventions for supporting White students’ development of a positive non-racist White identity. The contributors will outline and examine the dynamics of the WRID model and the vast amount of current research. A theoretical critique on the WRID model highlights salient counseling implications for counselors of color and offers a recommendation for further utilization of Helms’ theory."

A Cultural Humility Approach to Digital Storytelling for First-Generation College Students, 2017

This research paper will introduce a Cultural Humility Approach to Digital Storytelling for First... more This research paper will introduce a Cultural Humility Approach to Digital Storytelling for First-Generation College Students. The proposed program will explore the impact of a social justice pedagogical curriculum program design for a Digital Story Telling (DST). The approach involves integration of the cultural tradition of storytelling with digital animation to meet the intersecting needs of traditionally-aged (e.g. 18-29 years), First-Generation College Students (FGCS) at San Francisco State University. The DST will be comprised of four-weeks out of a sixteen week first year experience class (e.g. Humanities 225). Finally, in keeping with Tinto's (1997) classrooms as communities, the ultimate goal of the DST program is to assess the DST program's effectiveness in improving students' (1) sense of belonging, (2) perceived social support, and (3) academic self-efficacy (Tinto, p. 1). From a personal and artistic point of view; I posit that the efficacy of DST praxis illuminates and reframes a student learner's academic self-efficacy. Further, this intervention can foster and awakened spiritual experiences when classrooms as communities (Tinto, 1997) are perceived as effective social support systems. DST can encourage these students to get-outof-their-head for a bit and follow their intuition, and to become consummate musical conductors of their lives. Reframing and painting one's personal and powerful digital story creates an

May 16, 2017

A Cultural Humility Approach to Digital Storytelling for First-Generation College Students resear... more A Cultural Humility Approach to Digital Storytelling for First-Generation College Students research paper will explore the impact of a social justice pedagogical curriculum program design for a Digital Story Telling (DST) curriculum program design which involves developing the cultural tradition of storytelling with digital animation to meet the intersecting needs of traditionally-aged (e.g. 18-29 years), First-Generation College Students (FGCS) at San Francisco State University, during their first-year experience, sixteen-week General Education
segment requirement; the DST will be comprised of four-weeks out of a sixteen week first year experience class (e.g. Humanities 225). Finally, in keeping with Tinto’s (1997) classrooms as communities, the ultimate goal of the DST program is to assess whether the DST program’s effectiveness in improving students’ (1) sense of belonging, (2) perceived social support, and (3) academic self-efficacy (Tinto, p. 1). From a personal and artistic point of view; I posit that the efficacy of DST praxis illuminates and reframes a student learner’s academic self-efficacy, can foster an awakened spiritual experience when classrooms as communities (Tinto, 1997) are perceived as effective social support systems, and encourage one to get-out-of-their-head for a bit and follow their intuition, thus to become consummate musical conductors of their lives.

Reframing and painting one’s personal and powerful digital story creates an affirming narrative identity through exploring a sense of belonging and by understanding the colorful uniqueness of self. We are all artists in some manner unique to each of us as humans, especially culturally competent ones, can support and encourage FGCS to become the Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s (American poet, social activist) of their own lives.

Keywords: Cultural Humility, First-Generation College Students, Digital Storytelling, low-income, curriculum design, and higher education.
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AFRICAN AMERICAN HAIR IN HISTORY and NEWS: A SACRED BEAUTIFUL Natural Heritage Hair: An African Diasporan Photo Exposé, 2018

AFRICAN AMERICAN HAIR IN HISTORY and NEWS: A SACRED BEAUTIFUL Natural Heritage Hair: An African ... more AFRICAN AMERICAN HAIR IN HISTORY and NEWS: A SACRED BEAUTIFUL Natural Heritage Hair: An African Diasporan Photo Exposé

Curator, Chartrand posits that the underlying inspiration for A Sacred Beautiful… exhibition was inspired by curatorial research of the "reclamation of our hair-itage," the global African Diasporan Natural Hair Movement - birthed in the 20th century, and to bring attention to the dreadful Louisianan 1786 Tignon Law.

Featuring:KaliMa AmiLak, Photographer
Nye Lyn Tho, Photographer & Designer
Egyptsia Mcgillvery, Natural Hair Practitioner
April Martin Chartrand, M.S., Curator and Researcher
Curator & Researcher