Cohort Sistas

Mission

Cohort Sistas provides digital resources, mentorship, and community to improve equity in doctoral education.

While our programs and platform are open to all doctoral students, applicants, and degree holders, we prioritize and center the needs and perspectives of Black women and nonbinary scholars.

Founded in July 2020, in the wake of increased racial justice mobilization and the destabilization of in-person educational networks due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Cohort Sistas has grown to a community of over 3,000 Black women and nonbinary doctoral students, applicants, and degree holders from around the world.

We work to…

• Increase the number of Black women and nonbinary people who matriculate into and complete doctoral degrees.
• Reduce the undue financial and emotional burden of doctoral education for Black women and nonbinary people.
• Strengthen the pipeline of Black women and nonbinary leaders in higher education, research, government, and industry, whose work and influence will create positive social change for all.

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