Dr. Arthur E. Hernandez, professor at the University of the Incarnate Word in San Antonio Texas and long-time and active member of AEA, has had graduate and professional training in Clinical and Educational Psychology, Measurement and Evaluation, and Curriculum and Instruction. His scholarship is widely ranging recently, focused on Program Evaluation, Culturally Responsive and Equitable Evaluation, Community Based and Participatory Research, and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. Dr. Hernandez is an active contributor to scholarly and professional communities as well as to community-based organizations through research, evaluation, consultation, professional and pre-professional development, and community service. Some examples of this includes contributing to a special issue of Multidisciplinary Evaluation, contributing to, and coediting Qualitative Research with Diverse and Underserved Communities (Information Age Publishing), presentations at scholarly meetings, leading a webinar entitled DEI Conversations: Applying Equity-Minded Practices in Analyzing Data (American Association for Learning in Higher Education), and working in support of an effort funded by Robert Wood Johnson Foundation focusing on and exploring the dynamics of community power and domestic and international community power groups seeking to address health access and outcomes disparities. Throughout his career, Dr. Hernandez has been committed to learning from both academic expertise as well as the expertise of experience.  Throughout his career, he has focused his work primarily on developing and advancing conceptual knowledge and professional and informed practice in the fields of evaluation, education, public health, and psychology, in all his efforts seeking to foster and advance a culture of collaboration and inclusiveness based on social justice.