In The Majestic Place: The Freedom Possible in Black Women’s Leadership , editors Wendi S. Williams, Whitneé L. Garrett-Walker, and Nia Spooner curate the leadership narratives of Black women leaders from a range contexts, including education, health, and non-profit industries, in which they serve some of the most vulnerable and chronically disserved. Focused on the stages of women’s intra-personal and spiritual development, this book aims to create an expansive vision of Black women's leadership grounded in lived experience. Contributors to this book are Black women scholar-practitioners who lead in higher stakes context of serving and cultivating people and change. Each was invited to express their leadership experience(s) in essay, poetry, and/or prose form to offer a lens into the interiority of Black women’s leadership praxis that is not always welcomed or heard. I found myself wanting to shout 'Yes Sis, say it louder for the people in the back!' throughout this book. The weaving of theory, personal and professional stories, truth telling and calls to action are just what we need now. Many people say 'listen to Black women'; this book shows us why we need to follow Black women's leadership. Wendi S. Williams , PhD, is a psychologist, advocate, and educator, and currently serves as provost and senior vice president of Fielding Graduate University. Dr. Williams is the 2026 president of the American Psychological Association. Dr. Williams began her career as assistant professor in counselor education at Long Island University - Brooklyn and has served as an academic administrator for progressive, justice-focused higher education institutions, like Bank Street College of Education and Mills College, School of Education. Dr. Williams is an accomplished scholar in the areas of Black women and girls leadership and development, most notably with her recently published book Black Women at Work: On Refusal and Recovery (2023). Learn more about Dr. Williams's work at drwendiwilliams.com. Whitneé L. Garrett-Walker , PhD (she/her) is assistant dean of Credentialing and Partnerships in the School of Education, University of San Francisco. Whitneé is a Black, Indigenous (Natchitoches Tribe of Louisiana, enrolled member) and Queer wife, mother, and scholar born and raised on Raymaytush Ohlone Land. Whitneé has extensive experience loving, living and working in the field of public education and has spent over a decade as a middle and high school teacher, instructional coach and school administrator in urban public schools in Oakland Unified and San Francisco Unified School Districts, respectively. Dr. Garrett-Walker is a triple-credentialed California educator who believes deeply in the power of critical hope, healing, and educational justice in the field of education. As a scholar practitioner, Whitneé uses qualitative research as the foundation of feeding her desire to explore and make known the experiences of the promise, challenge and potential of Black and Indigenous women in educational leadership.