Dr. Sarah M Ray has received a Nashman Center Faculty Development Grant to develop research on femme and non-binary community-based entrepreneurship. More on Nashman Center Faculty Development Grants.
Dr. Sarah M. Ray, Assistant Professor of Human and Organizational Learning at the Graduate School of Education and Human Development, has received a Nashman Center Faculty Development grant. Her research is focused on community-based adult education and social learning around women, femme, and non-binary collective social entrepreneurs. Dr. Ray is working with a community organization, Femme Fatale DC (FFDC). FFDC defines itself on the website https://www.femmefataledc.com/ as “grassroots retail” which is described as “ordinary people coming together in service of our extraordinary futures; creating the products, places and experiences we want to have in the world”. Dr. Ray is working in partnership with FFDC to advance research on social movement learning within organizational structures.
Additionally Dr. Ray works with FFDC to support their overall mission and engage in co-constructed goals that help them achieve their organizational mission and better understand their membership. At this stage in the partnership Dr. Ray has engaged in weekly participation with FFDC for the past 6 months and has secured IRB approval to begin conducting interview, focus groups and observations with FFDC. These interviews will include the entrepreneur members, staff and leadership team of FFDC and all participants will be engaged at all stages of the project. The goal of this project is to further understand the social learning experiences of women, non-binary, and femme collective social entrepreneurs.
