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Mount Saint Mary’s University has released the 5th edition of Collectif, an online research anthology published annually by The Center for the Advancement of Women. Collectif serves as a companion piece to the Center’s Report on the Status of Women and Girls in California. 

In this year’s edition, “Transformations: Leading Lives of Meaning and Purpose”, contributors examine how women are becoming active agents of transformation, both in their own lives and within their communities.

“This year, we are re-envisioning Collectif as a publication that brings academics, artists and advocates who were inspired by the theme and data shared in 2023 Report,” says Nicole Haggard, PhD, director of the Center. “Perhaps through this intersectional vehicle for conversation, we can be moved to think, feel and act in a way that leads to more meaning and purpose in our lives.”

There are five essays included in the 2023 Collectif, which can be downloaded here.

• “Show Us Your Fire” − Joy Donnell
• “Bessie Bruington Burke: Unearthing Los Angeles' Hidden History through the Lens of a Trailblazing Black Educator” − Kimberly Nao, PhD
• “Establishing Identities in Liminal Spaces: Exploring Socially Constructed Identities of Three Women of Color in a New Clinical Psychology Doctoral Program” − Shirlie Mae Peralta, PhD, Malkie Hematillake, PsyD Candidate, and Irma Lopez Jimenez, PsyD Candidate
• “Art Makes You Feel and Moves You Into Action: A Conversation with Tiffany Shlain” − Nicole Haggard, PhD
• “Women, Wine, and the Phenomenology of Insight: the Fortuitous Shaping of Career Choices Among Women in the Wine Industry” − Stephen Inrig, PhD, MSCS and Rania Zayyat LIFT Collective