I have always found community outreach and mentoring to be an extremely rewarding experience. I am a mentor for the Stanford Academic Transition Advising Program (ATAP) and serve on the Department of Molecular and Cellular Physiology’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) committee. I have had the great pleasure of being a guest speaker for local schools and I look forward to helping build an inclusive community as a facilitator for the Pathways to Neuroscience program in the coming year. I am inspired and motivated by the DEI efforts of faculty, staff and leadership in my department.