Chas Thompson is a doctoral candidate studying higher education at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville, AR, where he also works as a research and teaching assistant in the College of Education of Health Professions. He has taught and guest lectured about the history of U.S. higher education, research and assessment methods in educational research, and college student development. His research focuses upon the lived experiences of minoritized college students, with particular interests in student activism, gender expression, and college student fashion. Outside of work, he can be found spending too much time playing video games and not enough time walking his dog on the beautiful Northwest Arkansas nature trails.