When Berkeley City College (BCC) counselors Dri Regalado and Skyler Barton set out to ramp up equitable counseling practices for dual enrollment, they worked to change the hearts and minds of faculty and staff about high school students’ abilities. Their goal was to break through deficit mindsets and get to where people are “seeing and celebrating the students for how brilliant and capable they are,” Dri said. Leveraging opportunities to share equitable dual enrollment practices, the BCC dual enrollment counseling team strove to shift college constituents to see dual enrollment as a lever for equity and justice for first-generation, Black, Indigenous, people of color (BIPOC) in local high schools. This effort grew from BCC’s participation in a community of practice connected to Dual Enrollment for Equitable Completion (DE4EC), a philanthropically-funded statewide initiative. The BCC dual enrollment counseling team led the culture shift by uplifting student voices sharing the positive impact of dual enrollment on their sense of belonging at BCC and their confidence in their ability to succeed in college.