Dr. Carrie Diaz Eaton, Associate Professor of Digital and Computational Studies talks with us about her vision for the RIOS (for a Racially-Just Inclusive Open STEM education) Institute, and her own journey navigating and disrupting traditional spaces in STEM. We talked about her own growth into her professional and personal identity, and the opportunities it presented for her to provide more opportunities for others in Math, and the general landscape of STEM.