Nicole Graham

Lecturer of Communication Studies | Loyola Marymount University

Los Angeles, CA, UNITED STATES

Biography

Nicole Graham is a first-year lecturer at Loyola Marymount University. She holds a Bachelor's in Communication with an emphasis in Organizational Communication with a minor in Sociology and a Master's in Communication with an emphasis in Education. With a passion for exploring the intricacies of human interaction, Nicole Graham specializes in organizational communication and adult education.

Education (2)

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 (1)

Communication, Leadership, Higher Education, Organizational Communication, Sociology, Diversity and Social Justice

Affiliations (2)

The National Society of Leadership and Success
Alpha Chi National Honor Society

Articles (1)

Symbiotic Resistance: The Recursive Role of Everyday Resistance within Intercultural Organizations

The International Journal of Organizational Diversity

Sabrina 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.”