Dionisia de la Cerda has worked for the University of Colorado for almost 2 decades. She began as community college transfer student working as a student tutor in the Math learning Center at the Colorado Springs campus. She has worked in Student Success, Corrections, K12 STEM education research, and for the last 6 years with the Department of Family Medicine’s Practice Innovation program. She co-founded the Diversity and Health Equity program for the Department of Family Medicine. She recently began working at the Vice Chancellor’s Office of DEI and Community Engagement as a Data and Evaluation Specialist.  Her passions are data and community. . She now lives in the San Luis Valley, and in her spare time, she hangs out with her senior pitties.