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Dr. Cheryl Rock is an Associate Professor of Food Science at California State University – Long Beach (CSULB), with concentrations and interests in Ethnomedicine, Food Metaphysics and Rum Science. She is also a native of Barbados and completed her Associates’ degree in Biology and Chemistry at the Barbados Community College (BCC). She acquired her Bachelors’ as well as Masters’ degrees at the Alabama Agricultural & Mechanical University. Subsequently after, she received her Ph.D. from the University of Florida. A fun fact about Dr. Rock is that, since the year 2017, she has facilitated a short-term study abroad course in her home country Barbados each year, where CSULB students has joined her to engage in some of the cultural activities while studying the science of rum. This is a unique course because it’s the first and only one that brings students to the Caribbean to study Rum from a cultural, diasporic and scientific perspective. The course is entitled “Distilling and Brewing Technology in Barbados” where students learn earn about Rum Science and its intersection with ancestral African and modern Barbadian culture and spiritual traditions through collaborations with Dr. Elizabeth Metzger. Last, her other research experiences and interests include disease mitigation through plant-based approaches in native foods. For example, her works includes studying the Ethnomedical Properties of Mauby Bark, a popular plant material used to make a beverage in Barbados and the wider Caribbean. Last, she has characterized several compounds in Mauby Bark that are of importance and have been published in the Journal of Food Research.