Dr. Tyreasa Washington is a Child Welfare and Kinship Care Researcher and is the principal investigator of two Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)-funded studies. 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. Previously, Dr. Washington was a distinguished senior scholar for child welfare and senior program area director at Child Trends.