Dr. Amalia Dache is an assistant professor at the University of Pennsylvania. Previously, Dr. Dache was an Afro-Cuban American scholar and assistant professor in the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis at the University of Missouri. Her experiences as a former Cuban refugee and student traversing U.S. educational systems, such as urban K-12 schools, community college, state college, and a private research-intensive university inform her research and professional experiences. She earned her Ph.D. from University of Rochester’s Margaret Warner School of Education. Dr. Dache plans to use the fellowship to work closely with local governments in Rochester and other western New York cities with similar racial and economic demographics to share and publish geographic data on racial, transit, and economic factors inhibiting access to local postsecondary education.