Dr. Tong T. Zhang is the Assistant Dean for Inclusive Innovation in the Maseeh College of Engineering and Computer Science at Portland State University. She has expertise in nonprofit and education leadership and working with organizations to create meaningful and sustained social impact across the education continuum. She was previously the executive director of Oregon MESA, an invention based equity program based at PSU, and she was also a founding staff member and COO of Thread, an organization providing wrap-around support to high school students in Baltimore city. Prior to her work in non-profit education, she worked on developing immunotherapy approaches for gynecologic cancers. She has a Ph.D. in Immunology from The Johns Hopkins University-School of Medicine and a B.S. in Biochemistry from the University of Washington.