Jacqueline Mac, Ph.D., is a first-generation Southeast Asian American college graduate and product of Chicago Public Schools. Her parents are ethnic-Chinese refugees from Vietnam and resettled in the Chicago Uptown neighborhood in the late 1970s. Before becoming a faculty member, Jacqueline worked in institutional diversity and multicultural affairs offices at public and private postsecondary institutions, including at a national education nonprofit. Jacqueline is currently an assistant professor of higher education at Northern Illinois University. She teaches courses on assessment, public policy, research methods, and equity in higher education and student affairs. Her research focuses on racialized campus environments, institutional transformation towards equity, and higher education access policies. She is particularly interested in racially marginalized, Southeast Asian American, and refugee populations, as well as minority-serving institutions.