About Kyle Ashlee
Kyle Ashlee facilitates classes, workshops, and retreats for those who believe in the power of love to transform our lives and our communities. Kyle leads engaging yoga classes, he facilitates reflective social justice leadership workshops, he brings people together through music, and he writes about social justice and mindfulness, including an award-winning book - VITAL: A Torch For Your Social Justice Journey. Kyle loves to travel to new places around the world with his family and practice yoga in idyllic locations. He earned his Ph.D. in Educational Leadership from Miami University in 2019, his Master's degree in Student Affairs in Higher Education from Colorado State University in 2009, and his Bachelor's degrees in Philosophy and Political Science from the University of Michigan in 2007. He completed his 200-hour yoga teacher training in Toronto, Canada with Modo Yoga International in 2022 and he is a lifelong student of yoga and mindfulness. Kyle currently leads yoga classes online and at Greenway Yoga in Minneapolis.
Kyle Ashlee's Writing
In this award-winning book, Kyle and Aeriel Ashlee offer approachable and accessible tools for social justice leadership. VITAL - Vulnerability, Identity, Trust, Authorship, and Liberation - the five core principles of this book, will give readers the tools and confidence they need to effectively integrate social justice into their lives and their work. This book is available on Amazon in paperback and e-book.
In this paper, Kyle Ashlee demonstrates how mindfulness practices can be used with white college students to promote their racial identity development and reduce harm to racially marginalized students in diversity education.
Using Critical Whiteness Studies (CWS), two student affairs professionals reflect on how they challenge white supremacy both personally and professionally. Kyle Ashlee and his co-authors provide recommendations for using CWS as a framework to inform racial justice activism with white educators.
With increasingly diverse student populations, exploring intersections of identity has become a central focal point for college and university educators. In this article, Kyle and Aeriel Ashlee assert that exploring intersectionality for those with privileged and dominant identities is necessary to engage in transformative social justice work.
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