Dr. Silvia L. Mazzula, Ph.D., is an award­-wining educator, scholar, and mental health researcher. Her current research investigates racial cultural trauma, stress, and mental health, social networks and academic pipeline development, and Latino psychology. As an evaluator, she has developed process, benchmark measures, and systemic guidelines to assess equitable and inclusive scientific studies and scholarship, conducted social framework evaluations of workplace discrimination, and informed organizational plans, policies, and practices related to inclusiveness. A tenured associate professor of psychology at John Jay College of Criminal Justice (~ 4% of professors in the country are Latina) and former President of the Latino Mental Health Association of New Jersey, Dr. Mazzula is an authority voice on support for Ph.D. prepared Latinas and nationally recognized for her successful outreach to underrepresented scholars, students, and faculty members. She is a founder and Executive director of the Latina Researchers Network (LRN), the country’s first multi­disciplinary research network to support Latina doctoral level investigators, scholars and evaluators, where she manages program design, incubation and evaluation. Her work has been published in scientific journals and numerous book chapters. She is an editor of SAGE Encyclopedia on Psychology and Gender, author of Ethics for Counselors: Integrating Counseling and Psychology Standards, and co-­investigator of the Race Based Traumatic Stress Symptom Scale. She has given 100+ empirically­ based talks, seminars, and workshops on culturally responsive science and on diversity, equity and inclusion throughout the country. She has earned numerous awards, appeared on NBC, and been featured or expert quoted on National Public Radio (NPR), USA Today, Washington Times, El Diario NY, Insight into Diversity Magazine, and others. Dr. Mazzula earned a B.A. in Biology and M.A. in Counseling and Human Services from The College of New Jersey and a Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology from Columbia University. She is a mixed­-race Latina, first generation college student from poor economic background, born in Uruguay, South America, raised in New Jersey, and mother of three boys.