Dr. Tyreasa Washington is a Child Welfare and Kinship Care Researcher and a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who has worked in child welfare and mental health settings. She has served as principal investigator of several National Institutes of Health studies, including two funded by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. One study examines the impact of family on the social, academic, and behavioral outcomes of African American children in kinship care, and the other examines the risk and promotive factors of health (e.g., Alzheimer’s, stress) among African Americans providing kinship care. She is a nationally and internationally recognized leading scholar in the child welfare field, and her life and research share an overarching goal of translating knowledge into beneficial, meaningful mechanisms that promote the healthy development of children and families. Dr. Washington has appointments at Harvard Medical School in the Department of Psychiatry and at Cambridge Health Alliance. She is also the President and CEO of Agape Therapeutic Services, PLLC, and currently an affiliate (former professor) at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Previously, Dr. Washington was a Distinguished Senior Scholar for Child Welfare and the Senior Program Area Director for the Child Welfare area at Child Trends