Tech. His research broadly focuses on inclusion, diversity, and educational equity—particularly related to students from groups that are historically marginalized or underrepresented in engineering. Lee received his Ph.D. in engineering education from Virginia Tech, his M.S. in industrial & systems engineering from Virginia Tech, and his B.S. in industrial engineering from Clemson University.Dr. Homero Murzi, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Homero Murzi (he|´el|him|his) is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Engineering Education at Virginia Tech with honorary appointments at the University of Queensland (Australia) and University of Los Andes (Venezuela). Homero is the leader of the
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, immigrating, educator of color, whowas the first in his family to receive graduate education, and who continues to weather thewrath of the pandemic separated by many thousand miles from his family.Creswell and Creswell (2017) describe auto-ethnography as a research methodology thatanalyzes a phenomenon through the use of self-narratives, which would otherwise remain“private or buried.” Auto-ethnography was an appropriate strategy to use in this study becauseit provides the primary authors the opportunity to shift from being an outsider to an insider inthe research, which further enables their voices to be better heard within the community, thuspromoting convergence and inclusion.Similar to Matusovich, Murzi, Gray, Chambers and James (2020) we