As the Executive Director of UCLA’s Center for Education, Innovation and Learning in the Sciences and Associate Teaching Professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, I am engaged in research and development of courses, curriculum and initiatives to improve and transform undergraduate STEM education to be more inclusive and equitable by using evidence-based and antiracist practices. As the Institutional Administrative Co-Leader for UCLA’s Center for the Integration of Research. Teaching and Learning, a National network that provides certification in scientific teaching and professional development for graduate students and postdoctoral scholars, I oversee graduate level courses that support certification in Teaching-as-Research projects.