Dr. Zabler was the Project Director with over 25 years of developing and managing collaborative partnerships in an academic nurse-managed health center. Her background integrates nursing research, education and practice; caring for at-risk families and communities with over 205 nursing, medical, and social work students for clinical learning. Her roots in Public Health included providing services for the 1980’s wave of Hmong refugees. This project continued her advocacy for refugee populations through developing and testing interprofessional practice and education models to improve access to and quality of refugee primary care, while continuing to educate future health care workforce.