Advancing a plural, reflexive, and inclusive psychology through feminist mentoring

Mentorship plays a vital role in feminist engagement, which is essential for advancing equity for women and other marginalized individuals in academia. As research and reflection progress in developing inclusive and empowering environments in psychology, feminist mentoring has emerged as a key area for transforming the discipline. Characterized as a lateral, collaborative, advocacy-oriented, holistic, and individualized approach to training and supervision, feminist mentoring models have been developed as a more equitable alternative to traditional hierarchical models. This special issue invited contributions that explore how Feminist mentoring can promote equity, diversity, inclusion, and a sense of belonging across various intersecting social identities within all domains of psychology. Given the substantial number of submissions received, the contributions will be distributed across two issues of the journal. In the first of these two issues, this editorial summarizes the key theoretical foundations, practices, and experiences presented in the first seven contributions on feminist mentoring in psychology.