معرفی
Dr. Aretha Faye Marbley is a Professor and Director of Community Counseling in Counselor Education at Texas Tech University's College of Education. A critical global multicultural social justice womanist activist and transdisciplinary scholar with over four decades of experience, she focuses on intersectionality, marginalized communities, and anti-oppressive frameworks.
- Ph.D. in Counselor Education & Supervision
Her research critically examines the intersectionality of social identities and amplifies counternarratives of women and communities trapped in oppressive systems. Key themes include cultural competency, gender and racial equity in education, and systemic transformation through womanist and feminist lenses.
Notable trends in her scholarship include: analyzing systemic injustices in academia, advancing multicultural counseling frameworks, and promoting social justice pedagogy. She has edited special issues on Hurricane Katrina, women leaders during the pandemic, and sexual violence in academic settings.
- National Human Rights Award
- Social Justice Anti-Oppression Award
- Research Award
As Director of Community Counseling, she advocates for counseling services over militarized security in schools, collaborates with scholars like Bonner and Smith, and contributes to encyclopedic works on diversity and multicultural counseling.
