The lack of diversity in STEM faculty has remained unchanged in decades despite interventions with undergraduate, graduate, faculty and institutional foci. There is evidence that the postdoc-to-professor transition is one of disproportionate exit from the academic career trajectory for scholars from minoritized backgrounds. Dr. Cresiski's research centers on this transition and developing models for retaining such scholars in academia. She leads a project that aims to facilitate the transition of postdocs into tenure-track positions by leveraging relationships and levers of change within state university systems, hypothesizing that a system approach will accelerate progress towards faculty diversity. She examines both the development of the scholars in multi-campus communities and the institutional transformations taking place by participating campuses, with the hope of creating campus (and state system) climates in which historically excluded scholars can thrive.