Abstract
This chapter explores the theory and practice of intersectionality, not as a crisis in higher education, but as a means for higher education leadership to address the crisis of exclusion while working towards authentic inclusion. This crisis of exclusion is rooted in the overlapping and socially constructed advantages and disadvantages associated with intersecting identity categories of students, faculty, administration, and other higher education constituencies. Academic research has delved deeply into the various inequities in higher education related to race or class or gender or ability and those data and analyses are widely available. Instead, this chapter explores the intersections of those inequities because in lived experience they show up not as isolated categories but rather as factors that complicate each other and that shift in different social contexts.