
Biography
Education
California State University Channel Islands
BA
Communication with an emphasis in Organizational Communication
2017
Grand Canyon University
MA
Communication with an emphasis in Education
2021
Areas of Expertise
Affiliations
- The National Society of Leadership and Success
- Alpha Chi National Honor Society
Articles
Symbiotic Resistance: The Recursive Role of Everyday Resistance within Intercultural Organizations
The International Journal of Organizational DiversitySabrina De Santis, Nicole Graham, J. Jacob Jenkins
Sixty years after Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. famously characterized Sunday morning as one of the most segregated hours in America, religious congregations remain one of the nation’s most racially/ethnically divided institutions. This reality not only undermines the presumed potential for faith-based organizations to positively influence cultural relations, but also parallels a lack of integration outside the church. Building upon over 300 hours of ethnographic fieldwork, this article explores patterns of everyday resistance within two intercultural congregations, as well as the implications of these patterns on racially/ethnically diverse organizational members. Results revealed three specific ways in which members resisted the dominant organizational practices of white leadership: (a) time disparity, (b) asymmetrical engagement, and (c) partitioned arrangement. Even more significantly, our analyses suggest a recursive relationship between everyday resistance and organizational diversity—a potential theoretical extension of everyday resistance we refer to as “symbiotic resistance.”