Dominique Graham is a double alum of Rutgers University where she earned a Master’s degree in Learning, Cognition and Development, and a Bachelor’s degree in Biological Sciences and Psychology. Dominique has a professional background in higher education programming, project evaluation and utilizing Applied Appreciative Inquiry for positive system change. Dominique’s work in higher education spans a decade, during which she held various leadership roles working with state and federally-funded programs such as the Garden State-LSAMP, EOF, SSS, TRIO-McNair Scholars, S-STEM, and NJ-STEP/Mountainview Community.  Dominique enjoys giving back to NALA(STEM), as she served as the Program Coordinator of the nationally recognized STEM Research Program Garden State-LSAMP for 5 years; mentoring and supporting the graduation efforts of 500+ college students, supporting the graduation of 300+ STEM majors, and coaching 10+ students who successfully earned the NSF-Bridges to the Doctorate fellowship.  Dominique also participated in the first-ever research study to examine confidence beliefs and transfer rates of 2-year college students mentored by 4-year college STEM mentors in a project called Cross-Campus Peer Mentoring (CCPM). She presented the findings of CCPM at the American Educational Research Association (AERA) conference in April, 2018. In her spare time, Dominique enjoys road trips, hot yoga and game nights with family.