Rebecca L. Toporek, Ph.D. (pronouns: she/they), is a professor in the Department of Counseling at San Francisco State University. Dr. Toporek has been a counselor educator for 20 years after serving for many years as a community college counselor, associate dean, and career counselor. Their scholarship focuses on multicultural training, whiteness in racism, economic justice, social justice advocacy, and college and career counseling. Dr. Toporek’s current projects explore advocacy and activism in counseling and psychology, backlash and harassment of counselors and psychologists engaged in activism, and sustainability for students of color and first gen students pursuing college counseling. They have written or co-written over 50 journal articles and book chapters, were co-editor and co-founder for the first 10 years of the Journal for Social Action in Counseling and Psychology, co-developer of the ACA Advocacy Competencies, and co-edited four books on multicultural training and social justice including the Handbook for Social Justice in Counseling and Psychology. Dr. Toporek and their colleague, Dr. Muninder Ahluwalia recently released a compilation of video interviews Helping counselors and psychologists as advocates and activists and published the workbook, Taking action: Creating social change through strength, solidarity, strategy and sustainability. Drs. Toporek and Ahluwalia along with Drs. Derrick Bines and Bryan Rojas-Arauz, have recently published the Workbook for Social Action for Counselors, Psychologists, and Helping Professionals. Dr. Toporek is a Fellow of the American Counseling Association and received the ACES Legacy Award in 2021. Importantly, she is also a daughter, sister, partner, and mother of two awesome 20-somethings.