Book excerpt: "In Speaking from Within: Black Women in The Ivory Tower, authors' use intersectional and interdisciplinary lenses to share the ways in which they understand, navigate, resist, and transform student services, learning, teaching, and existing in the academy. Chapters explore and discuss the following question: How do Black women experience and perceive place and agency in higher education? This book draws upon the influence organizational culture, sense-making, and sisterhood has on praxis and pedagogy and places the Black woman's stories and experiences at the center of the conversation"--