 My name is Crystal Sealy-Shrek. I'm the Associate Vice President for Instruction with the Technical College System. At the Technical College System, I've been able to bridge my passion for hands-on experiential education, which comes from environmental education with my desire for a world that's based in equity and justice. We serve students of all ages, all genders, all socioeconomic backgrounds, and students with very diverse goals. It's my role overseeing academic programs for the system to ensure that our programs are of high integrity and meeting the needs for those students, and that we are ensuring equity and student success so that all students have equal opportunities to meet their goals, whatever they may be. I find it so inspiring that our students are able to not only overcome those barriers, but able to succeed in the classroom and in the employment settings, and to innovate and take that education to places that they never dreamed that they would go. I tell Education Directors, really the heart of their positions is building relationships, and we get to build relationships with the colleges, and the colleges are building relationships within their communities, and with their employers, and with their students. No matter what policies on my desk or issue I'm dealing with at the end of the day, it is really satisfying to know that I get to play a really small part in this large system that is directly and significantly improving people's lives.