We demonstrate how participants recognize and build hard and soft skills; clarify career interests; receive managerial and organizational support; navigate gender, age, and racial dynamics; and access future professional opportunities.

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We used multiple sources of longitudinal qualitative data (i.e., timelines, interviews, reflective journaling) to understand how undergraduate students with minoritized gender identities experience internships in engineering.

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It's not lost on me that the quote we used for this title might resonate with many working in education at this moment. I firmly believe we can continue to change cultures through individual engagements. Demonstrating this in research and practice is one of the biggest honors of being faculty.

Findings discuss how attributes of equity-minded mentoring shaped participants’ mentoring motivations, benefits, and costs. Participants illustrated how qualities of social exchange (e.g., reciprocity) were often shaped by identity-based experiences and unclear boundaries in doctoral education.

The EM3 supports the goal of viewing mentors’ relational engagement through a lens that attends to identity/ies, power dynamics, and organizational structures.

SET helps one understand reciprocal processes – like mentorship – and we apply its tenets to examine doctoral students’ motivations, benefits, and challenges as they engage in mentorship.

In this study, we examine how US doctoral students in computing-related fields understand their roles as mentors by using a conceptual framework that merges social exchange theory (SET) and the equity-minded mentoring model (EM3).