Cora de Leon is a Clinical Associate Professor and the Incoming Director of the MSW Program at New York University Silver School of Social Work (NYU Silver). She received her MSW and PhD from NYU Silver, her MPH from Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, and a BA from NYU College of Arts and Sciences. She has more than two decades of clinical and research experience, focused primarily on depressive disorders, federal tobacco policy, tobacco use among historically minoritized populations, and BIPOC experiences within academia. She has taught at Sarah Lawrence College, Hunter College, and Borough of Manhattan Community College on subjects ranging from research methodology to comprehensive health education. She was previously the Director of NYU Silver's Undergraduate Program and is a member of the Sarah Lawrence College Institutional Review Board.