Colleen M. Brickle, EdD, RDH, is the dean of Health Sciences at Normandale Community College in Minneapolis. An advocate for furthering the profession of dental hygiene through legislation in her home state of Minnesota, she is actively involved in health care policy reform, with most of her efforts directed at the oral health practitioner legislation. Brickle is a member of both Dimensions of Dental Hygiene’s and Perspectives on the Midlevel Practitioner’s Editorial Advisory Boards.