Danequa Forrest, PhD, is a Research Coordinator III with Community Information: Now at UTHealth. With a double major in psychology and sociology, she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Texas at San Antonio with Honors, in three and a half years. Then, she was awarded a full graduate assistantship at Louisiana State University where she earned her Master of Arts degree in sociology. In the Spring of 2021, she graduated with a PhD in sociology with double minors in Applied Statistics and African and African-American Studies. She is a mixed methods researcher with experience in quantitative and qualitative data analysis. She has many research interests, including health and race.