Dr. James Holly Jr. is a Detroiter, educator, and researcher focused on counteracting anti-Black racism in engineering. He has a bachelor's degree from Tuskegee University and a master's degree from Michigan State University, both in Mechanical Engineering, which inspired his pursuit of a doctoral degree in Engineering Education from Purdue University. His work involves advocating for asset-based teaching practices in pre-college engineering education and thinking through ways engineering content can be used to train engineering students to counteract injustices prevalent in Black communities. Dr. Holly, Jr. is currently an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Michigan, where his research examines systemic racism’s reproduction of inequity in educational outcomes for Black engineering students.