Dr. Kimberly Collins is a Professor of Public Administration at California State University, San Bernardino, with more than 30 years of experience living and working in the U.S.-Mexico border region. Her work focuses on border governance, regional economic development, transportation, and public policy. She has served as Executive Director of CSUSB’s Leonard Transportation Center, Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Borderlands Studies, and a Nonresident Scholar at Rice University’s Center for the United States and Mexico. Collins has also held leadership roles in regional and binational research initiatives.