Harold Washington College (HWC), one of seven institutions in the City Colleges of Chicago system, is a minority-serving community college. During the 2018-2019 academic year, HWC was a recipient of the Pathways to Results (PTR) Implementation Communities grant funded by the Illinois Community College Board (ICCB), with support from the Office of Community College Research and Leadership (OCCRL). The college's PTR project focused on identifying how white supremacist capitalistic patriarchy harmed the institution and its racially minoritized students (James-Gallaway, 2019). Institutional policies and inequitable processes, often benefiting white students, have caused instances of academic underperformance of racially minoritized students, regardless of their intellectual abilities. The PTR team recognized that dismantling deficit mindsets was critical to closing existing racial equity gaps and created a 16-week professional development Equity and Justice Leadership Academy (EJLA) (James-Gallaway, 2019). A key component of the EJLA's formation was through the lens of culturally sustaining pedagogies (Paris, 2012, 2016; Paris & Alim, 2017) and other equity-based, focused models around culturally relevant pedagogy based on the work of Ladson-Billings (2000) and Freire (1995). The EJLA intended to increase participants' understanding of equity and justice and influence their future actions to improve campus conditions for racially minoritized students.