I am Co-Principal Investigator for the DEBER (Developing Effective Bilingual Educators with Resources) Project. With $3.75 million in funding from the U.S. Department of Education’s Developing Hispanic Serving Institutions Program, DEBER is designed to facilitate the transfer from 2-year to 4-year institutions for Latinx students pursuing an elementary or secondary teaching credential with bilingual authorization in California, and with a focus on developing inter- and intra-institutional transfer articulation policies for bilingual teacher education programming in San Diego County. The program provides fiscal and programmatic support to run a collaboration among San Diego State University, Southwestern College, San Diego City College, and San Diego Mesa College, all Hispanic-serving Institutions (HSIs) near the border of California and Mexico. I also serve as the Director of Bilingual Teacher Education for the DEBER Project where I lead the development of programming that is culturally and linguistically responsive, policy-minded, and border-connected.