Associate Professor of Medical Education; Associate Dean of Student Affairs, School of Medicine, University of Texas at Tyler; Director of Research, The Shine Hope Company; Co-Author, "Social Support and Positive Future Expectations, Hope, and Achievement Among Latinx Students: Implications by Gender and Special Education” (2024, Social and Personal Relationships), "Promoting Hope: Preliminary Investigation Into a College-Level Hope Curriculum" (2024, American College Health), "The Benefits of Buddies: Strategically Pairing Preschoolers With Other-Gender Classmates Promotes Positive Peer Interactions" (2023, Early Education and Development), and "A Preliminary Investigation of Collective Teacher Efficacy and Student Hope: Understanding the Role of Student-Teacher Relationships" (2022, Social Psychology of Education)