De'Sha Wolf is a social scientist and Research Assistant Professor at PSU's Regional Research Institute for Human Services (RRI) in the School of Social Work. She formally transitioned to the health sciences in Fall 2021, after devoting the first 10 years of her professional career to addressing disparities in education through the design and implementation of research-based interventions that improve access, research training, and retention of marginalized undergraduates. Dr. Wolf joined the PSU community in Spring 2015 as the Project Manager and Managing Director of the BUILD EXITO program--an undergraduate research training program funded by the NIH to support students on their pathway to become biomedical researchers. Her research interests center on chronic health conditions facing African American communities, chronic pain, trauma-informed care, patient-centered qualitative research, and complementary and alternative care. Dr. Wolf completed her doctoral training in Higher Education & Organizational Change at UCLA, where she was selected to participate in a three-year fellowship in interdisciplinary relationship science with funding through the National Science Foundation's IGERT program. She is currently pursuing advanced training in clinical research at the Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU), where she is an NCATS-funded KL2 Scholar in the Oregon Clinical and Translational Research Institute (OCTRI).