Lori A. Caudle obtained her PhD in 2010 in Child and Family Studies. She is an assistant professor in the Department of Theory and Practice in Teacher Education at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Prior to this position, she was an associate professor of Birth-Kindergarten education at Western Carolina University from 2010-2019. Her main scholarship activities are rooted in a community-engaged, implementation science perspective and involve identifying effective ways to strengthen practices and support the well-being of the early care and education workforce through accessible, relationship-based preservice and inservice professional learning experiences. She prioritizes working with urban and rural early childhood educators from marginalized groups and centers her work in the areas of STEM and social-emotional learning through trauma-informed and culturally relevant approaches.