Tinukwa Boulder, PhD., (she/her) is an Associate Professor of Practice and Associate Chair in the Department of Teaching, Learning, and Leading (TLL) in the School of Education at the University of Pittsburgh. She is also the Director of Innovative Technologies and Online Learning in the Office of the Dean. She earned her Instructional Systems and Workforce Development doctorate at Mississippi State University. She has over 15 years of experience in higher education with expertise in instructional design, faculty development, project management, innovative technology integration, consultative leadership, and teaching at the college level. She has experience creating content using different instructional technologies to develop pedagogically sound online courses that accommodate the needs of diverse learners. She uses constructivist learning theory to guide technology integration and instructional design processes. Her instructional design philosophy entails understanding faculty and students’ pedagogical and technological needs and addressing them using evidence-based instructional design methodologies.Her research examines how emerging instructional technologies can enhance teaching in different learning environments (online, face-to-face, and hybrid). She is interested in studying and developing best practices for implementing innovative teaching strategies to support the learning needs of diverse student populations. Recently, her research agenda has shifted to examine how instructional design praxis aligns with critical theory to understand how established instructional design paradigms marginalize and exclude underrepresented people based on their intersectional cultural identities. Succinctly, critical ID scholars challenge IDs to reflect critically on their design work and explore ways to include communities in the ID process. This emerging research interest aims to understand what critical instructional design praxis means to ID practitioners and how they embrace this emerging pedagogy in their current ID routines.