I chose to read "Beware Equity Traps and Tropes" by Jamila Dugan, and one point that resonated with me was the "Equity Warrior". The idea that someone who has done a significant amount of research, learning, evaluating, and implementing be deemed as a student rather than an expert was something that caused a shift in my thinking. With any experience, there is a significant growth of knowledge where you feel more and more comfortable, until the scale tips and you feel as if you could never know enough because there is simply so much to learn. (I think of post-secondary research, especially, with this phenomenon.) This makes me wonder if the Equity Warrior does not always see themselves as an expert, but they are forced to behave as one, thus expanding upon other issues within a system.
