“You Think About Your Identity a Lot”: Ethnic‐Racial Identity and Diversity, in Context

These findings demonstrate the importance of examining organizational norms and power that uphold or interrupt white supremacy as a critical part of the context around ERI development. The data also show that gender, social class, and other social identities were intertwined with ethnicity-race in youth's sensemaking, pointing to the need for more qualitative research that captures intersectional identities.