This book takes a case study approach to explore leadership narratives of women in healthcare and science, paying attention to the intersection of gender, identity, and race in each story

Part I: Theories and Foundations of Leadership. 1.Prologue: Challenges and Rewards of Leadership. 2.Theoretical Foundations to Consider. Part II: Leadership Redefined. 3."Am I Not A Leader?". 4.Being the First Only Different: Generational Perspectives in Driving Institutional Change in Academia. 5.Interprofessional Leadership Amid Twin Pandemics. 6.Spirituality, Identity, and Leadership. Part III: Intersectionality in Leadership. 7.Implicit and Overt Race/Gender Bias: Diversity of Leadership in Health Care and Health Sciences. 8.Reproductive Justice: Policy and Politics "When the Personal Is Political and the Political Is Personal". 9.Serving for Five Years: What I Learned About Reproductive Justice in Mozambique, at the Center of the World. 10.Gender Identity and Leadership. Part IV: Leadership Applied: Implications for Curricular Change in Medicine and Science. 11.Women's Health Equity in Academia as recounted. 12.Leading in the Military and Healthcare. 13.Genomics and Medicine. 14.National Institutes of Health (NIH) and Funding Discretion. 15.Community Pediatrics. Part V: Tools for Transformative Leadership and Organizational Learnings to Increase Diversity, Inclusion and Equity. 16.Tool 1: Data to Drive Change and Address Implicit Bias at the Organizational Level. 17.Tool 2: Organizational Change: Helping from Inside. 18.Tool 3: Debunking Myths and Leadership. 19.Tool 4: Beyond Title IX: Pursuing Full Participation through Plan, Do, Study, Act (PDSA). 20.Tool 5- Dealing with Adversity and Emerging Strong. Part VI: Epilogue. 21.Epilogue: Thoughts on the Journey and Keeping the Conversation Alive Laraque-Arena.