she/her) serves as the inaugural Director of the ARCH Center and is a double-tenured faculty in the Schools of Nursing and Public Health at the University of Washington. She uses anti-racism and participatory principles to foster authentic community partnerships, support community-driven health equity action, and transform public health systems via policy and practice change. Dr. Barrington serves as steering committee member for the Association of Schools and Programs of Public Health (ASPPH) Framing the Future Initiative and member of the CDC Community Preventive Services Task Force (CPSTF) where she chairs the Health Equity Committee.

Dr. Barrington approaches her work with a deep love of humanity coupled with a commitment to move in space with humility, empathy, integrity, strength, and accountability. As a biracial Black woman descendant of enslaved Africans in North Carolina, Dr. Barrington grounds her work and is inspired by critical race theory and Black queer feminist scholarship. Growing up in rural Washington and Oregon, she also loves small-towns and the smell of alfalfa in the summertime. Her joys include eating and traveling with family and friends (food-inspired trips are the best!) as well as gardening, reading fantasy or science fiction, watching snow fall, or soaking in the sun.