Laura Doyle is a lecturer in the Civil, Environmental & Sustainable Engineering Department at Santa Clara University and serves as a faculty associate specializing in program level assessment for Educational Assessment. She has two main focuses of research. The first focuses on how climate change impacts food and water security for underserved communities. Laura’s focus in this area is in helping existing not for profit organizations in Sub Saharan Africa and Silicon Valley develop more resilient practices for producing more food with less water. Laura’s research also examines teaching practices that provide equitable learning and increase diversity in engineering disciplines. She is involved with a campus wide effort to use evidence-based teaching practices to improve writing and information literacy instruction through Equitable Assignment Design.