Twanna Hodge writes: “The catalyst for this piece was when I worked as the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Librarian at the University of Florida Libraries during my mentoring sessions with Melody Royster, an exemplary mentor and tenured faculty librarian. I was honored to be her mentee. I wanted to share why having a Black mentor at a predominantly white institution was vital to my mental, physical, and emotional health. We cultivated a space where we focused on our well-being, prioritized exploring our Blackness, de-centered whiteness, and interrogated what it means to dismantle white supremacy culture from Black spaces.