Alexis Grant is a second-year PhD student in the division of Community Health Sciences at the University of Illinois at Chicago School of Public Health. She is a community engaged researcher with an emphasis on public health system partnerships, particularly for the purposes of implementing interventions in community settings. She takes an interdisciplinary approach in her work and has experience with both qualitative and quantitative analysis, geographic information systems, and systematic review. Grant holds a master’s degree in Behavioral and Social Health Sciences from Brown University and bachelor’s degrees in English and Psychology from Howard University.