Dr. Ekoba's research focus is culturally responsive and antiracist STEM instruction. She is a teacher educator for a secondary STEM program, and has developed coursework for implementing culturally responsive and antiracist approaches to teaching, and is looking into how it prepares future teachers to be inclusive in their approach to teaching and learning. Additionally, she is a co-PI on a STEMM multilayered mentor-based research laboratory project for high schoolers, STEM undergraduates and medical school students, who she trains with her colleagues on culturally responsive mentorship, instruction and now approaches to medicine.