Your Intersectional Lens

Exploring

By engaging your open questions in conversation with mentors, you can clarify your values and develop your identity—which might still feel like an open question. Your curiosity is a powerful tool that is unique to you because it’s an expression of your individual identity with all its' intersections, providing you a singular lens to examine your context (and a way for others to see new possibilities).

 
 

All aspects of your identity and unique approach to processing your experience, or “ways of knowing,” gives you valuable insight and enables your curiosity. Your particular, lived experience provides a wealth of knowledge and perspective that forms the foundation of your understanding and can take many forms. Your identity gives you a lens on your context that can reveal new ways of seeing old ideas and new possibilities.

 

An intersection of knowledge and knowing informed by lived experience with a unique lens for the interpretation of information.

Areas of Knowledge

  • History

  • Natural Science

  • Religion

  • Mathematics

  • Ethics

  • Human Science

  • The Arts

  • Indigenous Knowledge

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Language

Gender Identity

Physical Abilities

Economic Status

Sexual Orientation

Ethnicity

Nationality

Ways of Knowing

  • Emotion

  • Memory

  • Intuition

  • Sense Perception

  • Imagination

  • Faith

  • Language

How might components of your identity work with your ways of knowing to provide a new perspective on an established idea or point to an unexplored idea?

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