This memoir serves as a resource and toolkit for Black women doctors, future doctors, and professionals. Prepare yourselves to read transparent and ground-breaking stories from 24 co-authors, ranging from doctoral students to doctors to professionals, who, with great tenacity, have chosen to share their doctoral experiences. Undeniably, this memoir will give you hope, motivation, and determination to choose what is best for you and persist in your program or in your field of work. 

The second volume functions as a resource and toolkit for Black women scholars, prospective doctoral students, and professionals. Within this memoir, you will encounter touching and powerful narratives of Black women who have danced with persistence and relied upon the strengths of their ancestors to overcome obstacles and contest the systems that aim to hinder them from achieving their doctoral degrees. This memoir will fill you with hope, joy, and a sense of community, belonging, and support. The adage holds true: "We are all that we’ve got.”

A Black Woman's Guide to Earning a Ph.D. provides Black women with tips and resources on how to navigate and survive as a doctoral student at a predominantly white university or program. This book focuses primarily on the first two years of graduate school as years 1 and 2 are typically the most challenging. In this book, Black women will read personal stories related to mental health, the impostor syndrome, racial discrimination experiences, and much more. Lastly, this book was written to encourage more Black women to write about their experiences in their doctoral program for others who will come after them. We are all we've got.