Mirella Castaneda, a bilingual evaluation specialist, joined the Injury and Violence Prevention Center at the Colorado School of Public Health in 2024. She grew up in Kansas and graduated from Metropolitan State University of Denver with a Bachelors in Biochemistry and is a currently a MPH student in a Biostatistics program at ColoradoSPH. Her professional interests center on suicide and firearm injury research, with an emphasis on advancing evaluation and research to reduce firearm-related harms locally and nationally. She enjoys solving problems, learning from people, and is passionate about helping make science more inclusive for the Spanish speaking community.