For the past six years, WOCATA has centered and elevated the voices, experiences, and research of BIPOC women and femmes in the academy. Our core research topics and questions include how we—as emerging scholars, community members, and ancestors—might utilize transformative research paradigms; Indigenous epistemologies; Black feminist theorizations; methodologies from Chicanx, Dominicana, and Filipina scholars; or scholarship connected our different diaspora from a place of beauty and joy to sustain hope and optimism for marginalized voices in academia as we struggle for systemic change. Although we are housed within the Marsal Family School of Education at U-M (in particular, the Educational Studies, Higher Education, and Joint English & Education programs), WOCATA’s ever-growing community has interdisciplinary members at many levels—including undergraduate, graduate, and postdoctoral researchers—across this institution and at many others nationwide.