Dr. Kim McAloney serves as assistant professor of teaching in the CSSA program at Oregon State University. She is a scholar-practitioner change agent valuing innovation, creativity, and collaborative public pedagogy. After serving over a decade in student and academic affairs programs, Dr. Kim focus on cultivating opportunities for others through teaching, scholarship, liberationships, and coaching within and outside the academe. Her work aims to move forward concepts of liberation, access, and equity in higher education through: educator praxis, virtual liberatory practices, liberationships/critical mentorship, first generation college students & those of us who become educators, and actualizing liberatory approaches to social change. She defines liberationships as mutually beneficial relationships that empower all parties to reach their personally-defined goals while addressing systemic barriers. McAloney is coauthoring a book, Liberationships: Critical Mentorship in Practice.