Temitope (Temi) Adeoye Olenloa is the executive director of the Heads Up Tutoring and Life Skills Program for youth in east-Lafayette and a clinical assistant professor in the John Martinson Honors College at Purdue University. She received her B.S. in Psychology from Morgan State University in Baltimore, MD and her M.S.Ed. and Ph.D. in Educational Psychology from Purdue University. Temi uses motivational theories to teach about and examine academic persistence among racially marginalized learners. Temi enjoys playing volleyball, singing the wrong lyrics to her favorite songs (with confidence), and streaming action movies or crime thrillers with her husband.