Lissette Delgado-Cruzata, MPH, PhD is an Assistant Professor of Molecular Biology at John Jay College, in the City University of New York. She earned her Masters in Public Health and PhD at the Columbia University, and her undergraduate degree at the University of Havana, Cuba. She carries out translational research in the discovery and development of epigenetic biomarkers in chronic diseases, specifically she is interested in identifying breast cancer susceptibility biomarkers in Latinas. Her work has been funded the National Cancer Institute, and the American Society of Cell Biology. She is passionate about increasing the number of minority students that go on to graduate school programs, and directs two initiatives: the Minority Initiative of Female Students in STEM (MIXXS2) and the Program to Inspire Minority Undergraduates in Environmental Health Science Research (PrIMER), which is currently funded by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences.