"from Margin to Center" (1): Processes and Relationships to Participation One Woman's Ethnographic Journey Mirrored Through Community Research (Essay‪)‬

Abstract In the closing two years of my doctoral degree that spanned ten years of my life, I was asked by a mentor to write a personal essay on my academic experiences at the university. That essay follows and is printed here not without the accompanying editing that marshaled its own questioning, self-reflection and analysis that comes with distance, wisdom, and the editor of a juried journal.