Caesar was introduced to public health work at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, when they served as a contact tracer, vaccine ambassador, and community health worker. Dedicated to the values of care work and community health, they became involved with the UIC School of Public Health through the open-to-community members Epidemics of Injustice and Citizen Scientists courses, where they began building a foundation of public health knowledge to complement their community organizing and disaster response expertise. They then took on a health literacy role focused on chronic disease at the Chicago Department of Public Health in 2022, just before enrolling in the UIC SPH’s accelerated BA/BS+MPH program. Today, Caesar engages in crucial healing justice-focused community organizing, rapid response, and mutual aid efforts alongside Radical Public Health and Sanctuary for All. They are an alum of the Life Scholars and Pipeline to Social Justice Fellowships, a current Illinois (LEND) Leadership Education in Neurodevelopmental and Related Disabilities Fellow, and will complete their Master of Public Health degree this fall before beginning a PhD in 2027. Currently, their community-engaged research involves co-creating new iterations of Epidemics of Injustice and helping lead a retooled disability justice-focused Community Scientists Certificate Program in collaboration with the Department of Occupational Therapy in UIC’s College of Applied Health Sciences.