Natalia Caporale is an Associate Professor of Teaching in the Neurobiology, Physiology and Behavior Department at UC Davis. She earned her Licenciatura en Biologia in the University of Buenos Aires. She then pursued her PhD in Neuroscience examining mechanisms of learning. In the subsequent years, Natalia transitioned into studying science education, with a focus on centering the experiences of minoritized students and work towards effective institutional change to better support our amazing students. Her research utilizes both qualitative and quantitative method. 

Dr. Deeb Sossa is a Professor in the Chicana/o Studies Department at UCD.  She has conducted research in medical sociology, social psychology, symbolic interaction, race, class and gender, and methodology. All of her work makes contributions to substantive issues in inequality. Her research has also focused on women's reproductive rights; Mexican women’s access to health via formal (institutional) and informal (cultural) avenues; study of curanderas, parteras, yerberas, sources of healthcare for sexually transmitted infections (STIs), family planning, and abortion; and health care issues with Mexican migrant agricultural workers. Currently, Natalia is examining how Mexican immigrant farm worker mothers, as cultural citizens, are negotiating power and resisting practices and policies of educational and health inequity in their local context. 

Dr. Mendez is the HSI Director at the office of Diversity Equity and Inclusion at the University of California, Davis. Her educational journey includes attending New Mexico State University, Harvard University and UC Davis. She was the first and only member of her family to graduate from high school, attend college and obtain graduate degrees. Because of all of this, she is deeply committed to helping Chicanx/Latinx students be admitted, persist and most importantly graduate from college.