Myra Snell has taught mathematics at Los Medanos College for 26 years. In 2010 she cofounded the California Acceleration Project with Katie Hern. CAP is a faculty-led community college initiative working to improve equitable completion of college-level math and English for students deemed underprepared. CAP’s accomplishments have been featured in the New York Times, Inside Higher Education, Diverse Issues in Higher Education, Diversity and Democracy, and EdSource and in legislation that led to a $90million allocation to community colleges for the improvement of remediation. In 2014 Myra was a finalist for the national Faculty Innovation award from the American Association of Community Colleges. In 2016 Washington Monthly included her and Katie Hern in their list of the 16 Most Innovative People in Higher Education. Myra has a B.A. with honors in Liberal Arts from University of Texas at Austin and an M.S. in pure mathematics from UC Berkeley.