Refraining a house of mirrors: Empowering community in a grassroots leadership program

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• Eleanor M. Novek (Ph. D., University of Pennyslvania) is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication at Monmouth University, West Long Branch, NJ 07764 ([email protected]). The author would like to thank Monmouth University for a grant‐in‐aid for creativity made in support of this study.
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