Tiara Ranson(she/her) is a Graduate Research Assistant at the ARCH Center. She is Black, Cape Verdean, and Louisiana Creole tracing her heritage to sharecroppers in Beaumont, Texas. As a second year MPH student from the Department of Global Health, her career goal is to implement community led programs that dismantling racism for Black women in global maternal health. She recently completed her practicum in Kenya where she conducted process mapping to understand the interactions that wo men have with HIV providers to receive family planning counseling. In addition to her passion in maternal child health and qualitative research, she loves all things art; In her free time, you will always find her doodling, dancing and painting.