Dr. Wheeler is the executive director of College Beyond, which focuses on mentoring and interventions for young children of color and families living in poverty to create and support first-generation college graduates. She is also the founder of Be Preppy, a rural program in her native Amite, which uses technology to make college prep coaching available to all young people. She dedicates almost all of her waking time to supporting the students reached by these two nonprofits, personally intervening and coaching to help them navigate the obstacles to college and career placement – permanently altering the trajectory of the lives of hundreds of children in southeast Louisiana.