Sasānēhsaeh Pyawasay, a member of the Menominee Nation, is a Native scholar-practitioner currently at the University of Wisconsin as the Native American Student Success Coordinator. She has a heavy lens oriented toward access and has worked in various areas in education, in particular pre-college programming, multicultural affairs, admissions, academic advising, and diversity programming.With her significant experience as a practitioner and now in the emergence as a researcher, she is able to help to serve as a translator between practitioners and researchers, having the ability to boundary cross from researcher to practitioner and from practitioner to researcher. In order to be able to be an effective translator, she wants her research to be accessible to multiple communities. Sasānēhsaeh wants her research to extend and contribute to research in academia, to the Native community and higher education practitioners.