Tessa McKenzie, MPH co-instructed the course during her time as the Community-Engaged Research Coordinator in the Division of Community Engagement at VCU. Tessa continues to use connected-learning strategies in her new role as Manager of Evidence-Based Decision-Making with Bridging Richmond, an educational equity partnership in Richmond, VA. She has a unique background in social epidemiology and her area of expertise focuses on bringing harmony across data silos to ask the right questions that reveal and heal social inequities.  Tessa believes data is what brings us together. Through Tessa’s collaborative approach, she is working with public school districts to create a data-sharing culture with trust-building as a central tenet and major driver of change.