Research & Scholarship

Evidence behind the Dynastic Wealth® framework.

Dr. White's research bridges racial equity and entrepreneurship curriculum design — from her doctoral dissertation to peer-reviewed journal articles and federal policy reports. Each contribution advances a model of wealth-building that centers the lived experience and ancestral narrative of Black and brown families.

Dissertation2022

Dynastic and Generative Intent for First-Generation Black Wealth Creators in a Modern Racial Enclave Economy

Antioch University — PhD Program in Leadership and Change

Doctoral research exploring the absence of intergenerational wealth transfers in Black business families. Through interpretative phenomenological analysis of first-generation Black wealth creators in the beauty industry, the study surfaces the paradigmatic ethos shaping their dynastic intent and offers an evidence-based Dynastic Wealth™ model contextualized for the Black entrepreneurial experience.

Black entrepreneurshipentrepreneurship educationDynastic Wealth™leadershipracial equityracial wealth gap

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Journal article2022

Generativity and Relational Wealth: Using Stewardship to Open the Door to Prosperity

The Executive Leadership Council — A Research Journal for Black Professionals (Spring 2022)

Featured in the peer-reviewed ELC Research Journal, this article shows how promoting Black dynastic wealth requires leveraging the concept of stewardship to increase the generative intent — and not just the corporate success — of Black professionals.

generativityrelational wealthstewardshipBlack professionals

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Policy report2022

Dynastic Wealth™: An Approach to Advancing Racial Equity in Entrepreneurship Ecosystems

CEO Policy (Third Way)

A policy report outlining how Dynastic Wealth — a model cultivating five forms of wealth (financial, spiritual, knowledge, intellectual, and relational) — can close the racial wealth gap for Black entrepreneurs. Includes concrete federal policy levers across the Departments of Education, Health and Human Services, and Housing and Urban Development.

racial equityentrepreneurship ecosystemspolicyintergenerational wealth

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