During her years as a Fellow of this pd|hub Collection, Dr. Cépeda served as Director of the Office of Postdoctoral Affairs and Assistant Vice Chancellor for Postdoctoral Affairs at Washington University in St. Louis, and as a Visiting Scholar of Linguistics at Stony Brook University. Prior to this experience, Cépeda had developed and managed learning, training and advising programs for graduate students and postdoctoral trainees spanning STEM, medicine, the arts, humanities and social sciences. Beginning in 2019, Cépeda co-developed training materials for the PhD Career Ladders Program, a peer-facilitated career exploration series founded by students at Stony Brook University, refined through an NSF Innovations in Graduate Education grant, and competitively selected for the pd|hub Collection: Foundations of Career Exploration for PhD Scientists. Cépeda had published articles on teaching, biases in higher education, and career development for advanced degree-holders, and held national leadership roles in the Linguistic Society of America and National Postdoctoral Association. Cépeda holds a doctorate in Linguistics from Stony Brook University.