Dr. Yolanda Parker has been an educator for over 25 years and has been full-time faculty at Tarrant County College-South Campus for over 10 years in the Mathematics Department where she primarily teaches Statistics and Math for Teachers courses. She has a B.S. in Applied Math from Texas A&M University in College Station, TX; M.A. in Liberal Studies from Dartmouth College in Hanover, NH; and Ph.D. in Mathematics Education from Illinois State University in Normal, IL. She was honored as one of the 2017 Hidden Figures of Dallas: Top Women of Color in STEM by the National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE), Dallas/Fort Worth Professionals chapter and has been featured in Women Who Count: Honoring African American Women Mathematicians and 101 Careers in Mathematics. She was also recognized as the campus recipient of the 2017 Tarrant County College Chancellor’s Award for Exemplary Teaching, one of the highest honors a TCC faculty member can receive. Her research interests include algebra teacher self-efficacy and culturally relevant cognitively demanding mathematics tasks. She is a contributing author for the books, A Commitment to Teaching: Toward More Efficacious Teacher Preparation; The Brilliance of Black Children in Mathematics: Beyond the Numbers and Toward a New Discourse; and Mathematics Teaching, Learning and Liberation in the Lives of Black Children. She is a co-author for the books Engaging in Culturally Relevant Math Tasks: Fostering Hope in the Elementary Classroom and Engaging in Culturally Relevant Math Tasks: Fostering Hope in the Middle and High School Classroom.