Jacob Hibel is a second-year William T. Grant Scholar who has had a number of opportunities to work with and mentor talented students of color throughout his career. He is currently serving as a primary advisor to one Latino student and a mentor to two African American students. Hibel proposes to use this award to improve his ability to “mentor the whole person” by providing academic supports, access to material resources, financial support for conferences, and opportunities to connect with other scholars. He also plans to develop skills and strategies for actively supporting his mentees’ work-life integration and protecting them from burdensome experiences that disproportionately fall on students of color. The award will support his mentees Asia Ivey, a first year doctoral student in the department of Sociology at the University of California, Davis, and Jeremy Prim, a second year doctoral student in the same program. Both are graduates of HBCUs. Ivey’s research interests focus on how school structures reproduce the traumas of poverty that students experience during everyday instruction, and Prim’s research centers on how the implementation of restorative practices is associated with school climate in K-12 public schools.
Hibel will use this award to improve his ability to “mentor the whole person” by providing academic supports, access to material resources, financial support for conferences, and opportunities to connect with other scholars
