Tanya Sharpe

Tanya L. Sharpe, MSW, Ph.D. joined the Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work at the University of Toronto 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 victimization. 

Dr. Sharpe’s research provides scholars and practitioners with a culturally responsive framework for understanding the ways in which socio-cultural factors affect how Black survivors of homicide victims cope with complicated grief and despair. She has utilized that 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  a Professor; Endowed Chair in Social Work in the Global Community, and the founder and director of the Centre for Research & Innovation for Black Survivors of Homicide Victims (The CRIB) at the Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work at the University of Toronto.