Maria Militzer, PhD, joined the Community Family Life Center to support its commitment to offer quality programming to low-income African American children and their families in the Sugarbrook Area, located in Southeast Ypsilanti, MI. Maria brings an ample variety of program design, implementation, and evaluation skills to the CFLC, including participatory action research approaches, to bring about educational, social, and racially equitable outcomes for Sugarbrook residents.