Jonli D. Tunstall currently serves as director of two programs as part of the Academic Advance Program (AAP) team at the University of California, Los Angeles: VIP Scholars Program and Freshmen and Transfer Summer Program. In her current role as a member of the senior leadership team in the AAP, Dr. Tunstall oversees several programs and initiatives that works with first-generation, low-income, underrepresented students. In her tenure at UCLA, she has served in a number of formal and informal positions that have contributed to the acceptance and graduation of underrepresented undergraduate students across the country.