Liane I. Hypolite is an Assistant Professor of Educational Leadership at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. She earned a BA in Sociology and Psychology from Brandeis University, her EdM from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and her PhD from the University of Southern California. Liane conducts research that explores how high schools and colleges can expand opportunity structures for racially and economically minoritized students using qualitative and mixed methodologies.