Dr. Carter-Sowell is a Professor of Psychology and Director of the Gateway to Belonging at OU (GBO) First Year Experience Curricula at the University of Oklahoma. As Director, she develops, implements, and oversees an inaugural course to the General Education curriculum. Dr. Carter-Sowell earned her Ph.D. from Purdue University and she employs more than 15 years of acquired study, training, and practice to this Director position. She is a faculty member in the Center for Applied Social Research (CASR) at OU and Co-PI on two, active awards from the NSF AGEP (Alliances for Graduate Education and the Professoriate) directorate. Her research focuses on asset-based mentoring and professional development, especially for minoritized faculty and graduate students. She has studied the impacts of “being invisible” and how to ameliorate these negative experiences by cultivating a sense of belonging at all higher education stages of the academic pipeline. Her most recent work looks at differential impacts of campus safety on women faculty. Previously, she served as the Associate Head of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion and jointly appointed, tenured faculty member in Africana Studies and Psychology at Texas A&M University in College Station, TX. She is a 2021-2022 Big 12 Faculty Research Fellow, a Lifetime Member, and a Fellow of SPSSI, APA Division 9.