Dolores Delgado Bernal, Ph.D. became the Interim Co-Chair of the doctoral program in Educational Leadership for Social Justice at LMU School of Education in June 2024. She has been been a professor at the school since January 2023. Delgado Bernal was a first-generation college student and an elementary school teacher in Pasadena Unified who earned her Ph.D. from UCLA. She was faculty at the University of Utah for 17 years, then joined the faculty at Cal State Los Angeles, where she served as chair for the Department of Chicana(o) and Latina(o) Studies and then as Associate Dean for the College of Ethnic Studies. She is a scholar-activist whose scholarship bridges the fields of education and Chicanx studies, and whose passion is in femtoring students. Her scholarship draws from Chicana feminist studies and critical race studies to investigate educational (in)equity, Latinx educational pathways, feminista pedagogies, and different forms of student resistance. She is an American Educational Research Association (AERA) fellow and has published over 40 articles/chapters, and has co-authored or co-edited four books. She has received numerous awards for her scholarship, teaching, and/or mentoring, including, the AERA Distinguished Scholar Award, Mujeres Activas en Letras y Cambio Social Tortuga Award, and Critical Race Studies in Education Association Derrick Bell Legacy Award.