Javier F. Casado Pérez, Ph.D., [they/them] is Assistant Professor of Education in Counselor Education and Research Associate at Center for the Study of Higher Education. Their research initiatives include adolescent health equity and pre-college programming, institutional oppression and minoritized faculty life, equity-minded education and curricular reviews, and critical qualitative inquiry. Casado Pérez has served as Co-Editor of the Teaching Practice Briefs, an Association for Counselor Education and Supervision publication, Strategic Planning Chair for the Association of Multicultural Counseling and Development, Community Counseling Clinic Director, and Past Co-Chair of the CEQUIN Critical Methodologies Taskforce. They have led and supported multiple critical qualitative inquiries, mentor emerging qualitative researchers, and completed the University of Maryland Intersectional Qualitative Research Methods Institute.