Dr. Iannarelli is the Chair of the Humanities, Behavioral, and Social Sciences department at Chippewa Valley Technical College, with over 20 years of experience in higher education and human services. Her educational background includes post-graduate degrees in both education and the social sciences. She holds an Ed.D. and Ed.S. in Career and Technical Education from the University of Wisconsin-Stout and an M.A. in Sociology from Western Illinois University. Her primary areas of expertise and interest are justice, equity, and inclusivity. For the past fifteen years, she has focused her research on marginalized and underserved populations in postsecondary education. She examined Hmong student socialization and success in post-secondary CTE and was the first to publish a peer-reviewed study on Hmong students in career and technical education.

Additionally, she has researched the holistic experiences of racial and ethnic minority students experiences in post-secondary career and technical education. Her findings highlighted the impact of microaggressions on student experiences and how these aggressions manifest from peers, faculty, staff, and experiential learning locations.

This became the first peer-reviewed published article on microaggressions in career and technical education. In addition to the above, Dr. Iannarelli is an IDI and ICS Qualified Administrator and has consulted in the public and private sector for 13 years, providing one-on-one coaching for leadership, training employees on microaggressions, ableism, unconscious bias, intersectionality, privilege, generational diversity, cycles of oppression and other topics as well as developing comprehensive