Tanya L. Sharpe, MSW, Ph.D. joined the Factor-Inwentash Faculty in July 2018 after serving as an Associate Professor at the University of Maryland, Baltimore School of Social Work for 11 years.  Dr. Sharpe is a community-engaged researcher who is passionately committed to the development of culturally responsive approaches and sustainable opportunities allowing Black communities to thrive in the face of homicide violence. Dr. Sharpe’s research provides scholars and practitioners with a culturally responsive framework designed to understand the ways in which socio-cultural factors affect how Black survivors of homicide victims cope with complicated grief and despair. She has utilized her framework to develop culturally appropriate psychosocial interventions, best practices and a tool of measurement designed to assist Black survivors of homicide victims in the management of their grief. Dr. Sharpe is an Associate Professor; Endowed Chair in Social Work in the Global Community, and the founder and director of The Centre for Research and Innovation for Black Survivors of Homicide Victims (The CRIB) at The Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work, University of Toronto. She is the recipient of many prestigious awards: the Society for Social Work and Research (SSWR) Aaron Rosen Lecturer Award, Society for Social Work and Research (SSWR) Senior Social Policy Researcher Award, Boston College School of Social Work’s Distinguished Alumni Award, the Governor of Maryland’s Victim Assistance Award, the NASW Maryland Chapter’s 2016 Social Work Educator of the Year, the Dr. Martin Luther King Diversity Recognition Award for Outstanding University of Maryland, Baltimore Faculty, the Dr. Martin Luther King, Special Recognition Award for co-developing a course entitled Freddie Gray-Baltimore: Past, Present and Moving Forward, and the University of Maryland’s Organization of African-American Students in Social Work’s Inaugural Spotlight Award.