Zaire Ali is a first year PhD Student at CUNY School of Public Health in the Community Health and Health Policy Program, a Senior field consultant in the Rutgers SECD Lab, and the founder and CEO of a non-profit, “The Urban Health Collaborative”. In this episode, Zaire joins co-hosts Aysar Abdelgelil and Esther Kim from the Lab to discuss an overview of his experiences, accomplishments and important stepping stones within the field of SEL, and how these experiences have formed his professional path. Original Podcast Music by Harry Stopek.