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JOIN(INDEX cross sheet with multi select criteria

I am attempting to match multi select criteria in one sheet to the corresponding contact list in another sheet. The multi select column has over 100 possible criteria, though the average cell has 3-4 selected. There are some circumstances that the formula will need to return two or more names. I can't make JOIN(COLLECT work; it will only return one name when the multi select column only has one criteria selected:

=IF(NOT(ISBLANK([Area of Expertise]@row)), JOIN(COLLECT({ARM}, {Discipline}, [Area of Expertise]@row), ", "))

Column references:

{ARM}: contact list on sheet 2

{Discipline}: list of all multi select criteria on sheet 2

[Area of Expertise]: multi select column on sheet 1

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