Dr. Carrie Saetermoe, Professor of Developmental and Health Psychology at California State University, Northridge, has dedicated her career to social equity in education, health, and disability and has secured federal funding for all of her projects. For 12 years Saetermoe was Principal Investigator for CSUN’s National Institute of Mental Health Career Opportunities in Research (NIMH COR), whereby over 54+ (many COR affiliates) under-represented undergraduate students were trained in high-level research methods and entered doctoral programs in mental health fields. Professor Saetermoe has conducted extensive research on cultural variations in familial reactions to the transition to adulthood of Latina/o children with disabilities in Los Angeles and in Guatemala. In addition, she has followed 40 second generation Chicana/o youth, half high-achieving, half struggling in school, capturing narrative stories of their journey through Los Angeles’ ethnic homogeneous public schools. Her passion for global health equity takes a turn with an intensive study of information and stories from asylum seekers and advocates from Juárez, Mexico, integrating community and domestic violence as a significant threat to health equity to women throughout Latin America.