Liz Garza-Guidara is a Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) consultant, a social justice advocate, a US Air Force veteran, and a female Korean American adopted by an Italian American family.  She is also married to a wonderful man from Mexico.  Her background alone made DEI not only deeply personal to her, but also a lived truth throughout her entire life.  Liz lived and worked in 4 different countries on 4 different continents, which equipped her with a deep understanding of patterns of oppression in a variety of cultural contexts.  She experienced and actively challenged racism and sexism during her time abroad and in the US.  Liz’s time abroad was enriched by the expertise on race, power, and privilege that she obtained from both of her Master’s degrees.