Deena M. Murphy, Ph.D., is the Founder of Deem Research, Inc. and directs, manages, and facilitates leadership training, diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives, research, evaluation, and other types of capacity-building support to national and local academic, healthcare, community, and organizational change initiatives. As a community psychologist, Deena has collaborated on community and organizational capacity building related to equity, leadership and workforce development, substance use prevention, treatment and recovery, the HIV care continuum, team dynamics, strategic planning, and conducted numerous community and organizational assessments and trainings. Deena works with a variety of community-based, healthcare, and academic organizations to transform research into practical knowledge to inform their systems change and capacity-building strategies. Deena was the first in her family to go to university and she received her Ph.D. from North Carolina State University, where she specialized in Community Psychology and implementation science with a focus on nonprofits and organizational change and learning.