Dr. Brittany Rice is a newly appointed Assistant Professor in the Department of Behavioral Science at the University of Kentucky (UK) investigating the influences of cultural identity on learner persistence and lack thereof in clinical and biomedical research training programs and careers. Prior to this appointment, she completed a postdoctoral fellowship in the Addressing Rural Cancer Inequities Through Scientific Excellence (ARISE) T32 Training Program at UK where she developed measures to assess the effectiveness of existing and future cancer education training and research training programs and completed coursework to obtain a Graduate Certificate in Instructional Communication. Before her current and most recent endeavors exploring behavioral science, Rice investigated many biomedical phenomena at the undergraduate, postbaccalaureate, and graduate levels. During her doctoral studies in the Department of Pharmacology and Nutritional Sciences also at UK, Rice advanced the understanding of diseased states initiated and progressed by environmental exposures with her investigations of metabolic disorders at the physiological level. Additionally, as a graduate trainee, Rice implemented educational interventions to prevent post-secondary level STEM + H pathway leakage of women and engaged in science outreach to increase public cognition of and affect for biomedical research. Rice is highly motivated to continue to help underrepresented students feel as though they are not stepping into unwelcoming territory or up against unfavorable odds in Academia. Since being at UK, Rice has co-mentored, trained, and/or coached 72 STEM learners – 69 of which are underrepresented. She intends to continue to use her coupled experiences in basic research and student support to explore ways to maximize the success of science education and research training programs at UK and beyond. Further, Rice is hopeful about the future of underrepresented persons in the Academy and wants to remind everyone that all things are possible.