Dr. Mónica Stanton Koko is an Assistant Professor in the Health Studies Department at the Borough of Manhattan Community College (BMCC), City University of New York. She holds an Ed.D. in Health Education & Behavior Studies and an M.Ed. in Applied Anthropology from Teachers College, Columbia University, as well as an M.P.H. and B.S. in Nutrition from Hunter College, CUNY. She was also a Peer-to-Peer Mentor Research Fellow at Mercy University under the Langston University Rehabilitation Research and Training Center, funded by NIDILRR. With over two decades of experience in hospitals, clinics, and community-based organizations throughout New York City, Dr. Stanton Koko has worked extensively with diverse and historically marginalized populations. Her research encompasses food studies and health behavior in Argentina and New York, as well as HIV/AIDS in both clinical and digital contexts, and cultural understandings of illness in a biosphere reserve in northeastern Mexico.