Brenda L.H. Marina

Brenda L.H. MarinaBrenda L. H. Marina , PhD, is the founder and CEO of Myntrmi International LLC, a personal and professional development mentoring and consulting service. Dr. Marina is also a Mentor Consultant for the Transformation of the Professoriate Mentoring Program within the University of the Free State in South Africa. As a retired higher education leadership educator, Dr. Marina has served as an assistant dean, associate dean, and associate professor in the United States. She has published books, several book chapters and many articles related to identity development for female students of color, religiosity and spirituality in leadership programs, managing diversity in workplaces and society, cultural competence and the glass ceiling. Her scholarship continues to explore women in leadership, mentoring for leadership, mentoring for well-being, multicultural competence in higher education and global education issues from a womanist perspective.

Publications

Successful Pathways for the Well-Being of Black Students
Successful Pathways for the Well-Being of Black Students
Fumane Portia Khanare, Brenda L.H. Marina. © 2023. 281 pages.
A grassroots understanding of well-being can be an effective approach to meeting the needs of children in low-resource settings. Due to this, evidence on how to sustain such...
What Path to Take: Lessons Learned
What Path to Take: Lessons Learned
Brenda Louise Hammett Marina. © 2023. 9 pages.
This final chapter is a critique, where each chapter is considered a case. Data were extrapolated by content analysis to situate this discussion about Black students within the...
When and Where We Enter: A Review on Mentoring and Leadership for African-American Women in Academia
When and Where We Enter: A Review on Mentoring and Leadership for African-American Women in Academia
Sherella Cupid, Brenda Louise Hammett Marina, Marcia Canton. © 2022. 24 pages.
Over the past 50 years, a range of social, cultural, and structural-institutional ideologies have been identified as intervention strategies for breaking the glass ceiling in...