Dea Marx
Dea Marx, an accomplished author, speaker, and passionate lifelong educator residing in southern Kansas City, knows the importance of balancing a fulfilling personal life with professional achievements. Alongside her dedicated pursuit of sharing the importance and power of mentoring, Dea finds joy in spending quality time with her amazing husband and two adult children. She enjoys the antics with their cat, Leo, as well as their very entertaining granddog, Daxter.
Her new book -
Mentor Me Please: Building a Mentorship Community for Doctoral Success - is available now.
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https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0C6HDV1BR
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Mentor Me Please: Building a Mentorship Community for Doctoral Success
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A step-by-step guide to leveraging mentoring that all doctoral students need to move through their doctoral program - and enjoy it!
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Mentor Me Please Journal.
This is a companion to the book, Mentor Me Please. It provides space for you to capture your thoughts, notes, and plans that will aide you in building your mentoring community. Enter you email below to receive your free copy!
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"One of the greatest values of mentors is the ability to see ahead what others cannot see and to help them navigate a course to their destination."
- John C. Maxwell
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"A mentor is someone who allows you to see the hope inside yourself."
- Oprah Winfrey
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Mentoring is a brain to pick, an ear to listen, and a push in the right direction."
- John C. Crosby
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About Me.
I began my doctoral journey thinking that it would be a lot of work, but I could handle it! I knew my dissertation research would center on mentoring, but I also knew I needed a mentor to ensure that I knew what the expectations were and could access advice and guidance along the way. I quickly found that connecting with others who knew the secrets of this new experience would make the journey easier and more enjoyable.
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While traditional mentoring was not available during my program, several other students and I found ways to access mentoring that allowed us to move through our coursework and complete our dissertations in a timely and joyful manner. While it was not easy, I successfully completed my doctorate and am happy to share with you what I learned along the way.
Mentor Me Please is a practical book for doctoral students that provides a roadmap to create a mentoring community that provides insider knowledge, connections, and the knowledge needed to successfully complete a doctorate. This book guides you through selecting the right type of mentoring, asking others to join, and leveraging opportunities to build a mentoring community that will cheer as you walk across the stage at graduation.
Mentoring publications:
Marx, D., Torres, T., & Maher, M. (2022). Laying the Groundwork, Transforming the University: The Origin Story of a Latinx Mentoring Program at a Predominately white Institution. Urban Education. DOI: 10.1177/00420859221086522
Marx, D., Panther, L., Thomas, R., & McNeil, H. (2021). Multifaceted Mentorship Community: Resisting historical mentoring practices to create space for mentee-initiated and sustained mentorship for women doctoral students. Mentoring and Tutoring: Partnership in Learning. DOI: 10.1080/13611267.2021.1954456
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My dissertation:
Marx, D. (2018). Mentoring Latinx students through culturally sustaining pedagogies at a predominately White institution. University of Missouri-Kansas City.
Other academic publications:
Marx, D., Flinkman, J., & Wilson, C. (2020). Redefining Federal Work Study: Support students in their academic and professional success by developing their career-readiness skills. Planning for Higher Education Journal 49(1), 1-10.
Hernández Pecina, U. & Marx, D. (2020) In Spite of… Urban Latina/o leaders’ perspectives on undergraduate perseverance and successful degree completion, Journal of Latinos and Education, DOI: 10.1080/15348431.2020.1794873
Marx, D., Torres, T., & Panther, L. (2019). This class changed my life: Using culturally sustaining pedagogies to frame undergraduate research with students of color. Council of Undergraduate Research. 3(1). DOI: 10.18833/spur/3/1/1
Marx, D., & Pecina, U. (2016). Community: The missing piece in preparing teacher candidates for future urban classrooms. Action in Teacher Education. 38(4), 344-357.
Book Chapters
Pecina, U. H., & Marx, D. (2019). A Principal’s Mission to Create Space and Inclusivity for Immigrant Students in a Predominantly Latinx Charter School. In E. Crawford & L. Dorner (Eds.), Educational Leadership of Immigrants: Case Studies in Times of Change, (pp. 120-129). New York: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group.