Mentoring has always been a valuable part of life for Christa Porter, Ph.D., associate dean for the Graduate College.   “I have always had some pretty amazing mentors, specifically black women, who are my senior,” Porter said. “But I also have a group of sister scholars, who I have been peer mentoring with and alongside since I was a doctoral student, and then I've also picked up some other peer mentors along the way.”  For Porter, mentoring is both a means of support in academic life and a mechanism for various opportunities. “Mentoring has meant folks opening door...