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Dr. Inna Kanevsky has been a professor of psychology at San Diego Mesa College since 2005. She was born in the Soviet Ukraine, and came to the U.S. in 1994 as a refugee from newly independent Ukraine. Originally a math teacher, she earned an M. S. in Applied Behavior Analysis from CSU LA and her Ph.D. in Experimental Psychology from UCSD. Teaching is her passion, and during the pandemic, while the classrooms where closed, she created a popular TikTok channel @dr\_inna. It began as a way to make short content videos for her online classes, but became a go-to resource for debunking psychology related misinformation and fact checking. Inna is known for always “bringing her receipts” by providing research sources relevant to her posts, which is why she is often contacted by various news media sources to discuss social media psychology-related content. She contributed a chapter to a research methods textbook and another to a book about women of color pioneers in psychology. Inna now spends a lot of time and effort advocating for free Ukraine. Recently, she was privileged to be invited to speak at TEDxWrigleyville in Chicago, IL.