Tashel C. Bordere, Ph.D, CT, Assistant Professor in the Department of Human Development and Family Science and State Extensions Specialist (Youth Development), at the University of Missouri-Columbia, is also a Forward Promise Fellow and certified thanatologist. She publishes works relating to diversity and resilience through loss, including a co-edited book, Handbook of Social Justice in Loss and Grief. Her research areas include African American youth grief and adjustment to loss (homicide, race-based trauma), and she also developed S.H.E.D. Loss and Grief Tools.