The four authors of this book—Isis, Leo, Oscar, and Peter—have a wide range of experiences in colleges and universities (below you can find a short biography and picture of each of us). We have worked and studied at community colleges, state universities, small private colleges, big research universities, and the Ivy League. Two of us are first-generation college graduates. We have had a variety of job titles from president to assistant director, professor to tutor; beyond higher education, we also have been bartenders, truck drivers, ice cream scoopers, tree nursery workers, and magazine writers. We are from small towns and big cities, and we range from millennials to baby boomers, and we grew up in low to middle-income families. Two of us are bilingual, three of us are parents, one of us is an immigrant, and one is a grandparent. But beyond all these traits, we were also students, and our careers have been dedicated to supporting and challenging students to achieve their dreams for higher education.