Myka Barnes-Garcia is the Senior Research Administration Manager for the College of Education, Health & Human Sciences’ Office of Research and External Funding at the University of Tennessee. Previously, Myka was a Senior PreAward Administrator for Emory University’s School of Medicine (2022 – 2024). Prior to that, Myka worked for the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus in various medical research roles – PreAward Manager for the School of Medicine’s department of Emergency Medicine and the Center for COMBAT Research (2020 – 2022); PreAward Consultant for the University’s Office of Grants and Contracts (2019 – 2020); and Clinical Research Coordinator for the School of Medicine’s department of Neurology, specializing in Neuro-Ophthalmology clinical trials (2017 – 2019).