Di-Tu Dissassa Di-Tu Dissassa (pronouns she/her/hers)is a current Ph.D. student in Student Affairs at the University of Maryland, College Park. Dissassa graduated with her Master of Arts from the University of Missouri - Kansas City in 2014 and has experience working in multicultural student affairs, intergroup dialogue, and residence life. Dissassa currently works as a Graduate Administrative Assistant in the Center for Diversity and Inclusion in Higher Education (CDIHE) and as a Cross Cultural Graduate Coordinator in the office of Multicultural Involvement and Community Advocacy (MICA). Her scholarly interests include staff of color perceptions of campus racial climate, hate crimes/bias incidents at undergraduate institutions, multiethnic & second-generation immigrant student identity development, and diversity in STEM. She is committed to her goals of lifelong learning and helping spread the importance of intercultural development to create global change.