Steven Knotek is an associate professor and the coordinator of the School Psychology Program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He studies the use of a human-centered design approach to co-design innovations with community stakeholders (i.e., parents and teachers). He is also and is developing an implementation coaching model to bridge the science-to-service gap and allow innovation adopters (e.g., teachers, coaches) to adapt evidence-based programs to be culturally responsive. He has an MA in counseling from the University of San Francisco, and a PhD in educational and school psychology from the University of California, Berkeley.