Charity Watson is a discipline-based education researcher in mathematics and visiting assistant professor in the STEM Transformation Institute at Florida International University. She has taught an array of courses at the undergraduate and graduate level, including calculus, statistics, mathematics for elementary teachers, and research methods in science and engineering education. Her research is focused on university-level students and their learning and success in introductory-level mathematics courses and how their experiences in these courses impact their persistence in STEM fields. She is specifically interested in the experiences of underrepresented minorities in mathematics courses and factors that may impact their participation in mathematics.