Helping people hear each other... One story at a time
Welcome to a new platform for cultural change created by the ETSU Office of Equity and Inclusion. We are on an exciting journey that we hope will establish productive dialogue on the many challenges facing us as we strive for Social Justice.
We hope to create something useful with Community Voices. We aim to make this publication a place to establish compassion and understanding by providing readers with hundreds of individual’s stories from varying backgrounds and different points of view. Hence the tag line, “Helping People Hear Each Other One Story at a Time.”
Contributing writers:
Audrey Wilson Besch
Clinical Instructor, Department of Counseling and Human Services
Audrey Besch is a clinical instructor in the Department of Counseling and Human Services at East Tennessee State University. Besch has served in various academic administrative and faculty roles at ETSU in areas of student retention, recruitment, advisement, and teaching in the human services discipline at the undergraduate level.
Besch currently serves as the coordinator for the Human Services Program and academic
advisor for the Trauma and Resilience Minor. She is presently pursuing her Doctor
of Education in Higher Education and Policy Analysis at ETSU where she hopes to make
a difference in the lives of students. Her interests in neurodiversity stem from her
lifelong experiences with Dyslexia and her work with trauma and resilience.
Dr. Daryl A. Carter
Associate Dean for Equity and Inclusion in Arts and Sciences
Dr. Daryl A Carter is Associate Dean for Equity and Inclusion in the College of Arts & Sciences, Director of the Black American Studies program, and a tenured, Full Professor of History at East Tennessee State University. He has been at ETSU since 2008. Dr. Carter is a political historian. He examines the intersection of politics, race, gender, and class. Dr. Carter’s first book is Brother Bill: President Clinton and The Politics of Race and Class, published by the University of Arkansas Press in 2016. Dr. Carter holds a B.S. in Political Science and M.A. in History from East Tennessee State University. He earned his Ph.D. in American history at The University of Memphis.
Dr. Mickey White
Assistant Professor of Counseling, ETSU
Dr. MIckey White, NCC, LPC-MHSP (temp), BC-TMH (he/him), is an Assistant Professor
of Counseling at ETSU. His research agenda includes intersectionality and gender identity
among trans individuals; the process of identity disclosure for LGBTGEQIAP+ professionals;
liberatory pedagogical approaches in counselor education; antiracist identity development;
and multiculturalism and social justice in counseling.
He is a past emerging leader for both the Southern Association for Counselor Education
and Supervision (SACES) and the Society for Sexual, Affectional, Intersex, and Gender
Expansive Identities (SAIGE.) He currently serves as the Secretary for SAIGE and received
the SACES 2022 President’s Award for service to the organization. His personal and
professional commitments to equity and inclusion stem from his own intersectional
identities and on behalf of his past, present, and future clients, students, and supervisees.
Magazine Archive:
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Volume 1 Issue 1; May 2022
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Volume 1 Issue 2; August 2022