Xia Li (Lisa) is the Research Account Support Officer for the CERC in Migration and Integration at Toronto Metropolitan University. She has over a decade of research accounting experience in the non-profit sector. Prior to working in the non-profit sector Lisa spent another decade in finance and accounting with private sector companies. At Toronto Metropolitan University, she was a Financial Assistant with Senator Ratna Omidvar at the Global Diversity Exchange, then Dr. Wendy Cukier at Diversity Institute, which focused on entrepreneurship, equity, diversity, innovation, and inclusion. With the Maytree Foundation and the Toronto Region Immigrant Employment Council (TRIEC), she was a bookkeeper and maintained over 10 research projects on Cities of Migration, Hire Immigrant, Diversity onBroad, Aligns Canada, Policy Changes, Employment Engagement, Mentoring Partnership, working closely with project leaders, practitioners and researchers in the field of immigrant and diversity integration.