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Tiffany Baffour has more than 25 years of experience in teaching, curriculum development, social work practice, advocacy, research, and administrative leadership in the fields of social work and organizational development. At the University of Utah, Dr. Baffour serves as the Graduate School’s Associate Dean for Graduate Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) while advancing her research agenda in the areas of anti-racist and inclusive pedagogy, violence prevention, mental health/health disparities, and community-based participatory research. In February 2022, Baffour received the Madame C.J. Walker Resource Award from the Black Culture Center at the University of Utah recognizing her efforts to strengthen community-engaged learning experiences and opportunities for civic engagement at the University and beyond. Additionally, she serves as an inaugural member of the Board of Directors for the McCluskey Center for Violence Prevention.

On the national level, Dr. Baffour serves in several important leadership roles. At the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE)—the accrediting body for all U.S. social work programs—she serves in a volunteer capacity as chair of the Council on Conferences and Professional Development, and as a member of both the Commission on Membership and Professional Development, and the Task Force to Advance Anti-Racism. In her capacities with CSWE, Dr. Baffour has been a staunch national advocate for infusing anti-racism, diversity, equity, and inclusion content into the social work curriculum, assessment, and training for faculty and field instructors in all accredited social work programs. Most recently, Dr. Baffour served as co-guest editor of a two-volume issue for the journal Reflections: Narratives of Professional Helping (titled “A Call for Social Worker Educators to Confront and Dismantle Systemic Racism Within Social Work Programs”). This ground-breaking work specifically looks at intersectional perspectives for solving issues of systemic racism within social work education.

In addition to her academic work, Dr. Baffour has diverse practice experience as a consultant, program developer, therapist, and social worker with system-involved youth in juvenile justice, foster care, and kinship care settings. She has also worked with adults with mental health and substance use vulnerabilities in both outpatient and inpatient settings. Dr. Baffour earned her PhD in social work from Howard University, her Master of Social Service degree from Bryn Mawr College, and MA in sociology from the University of Delaware.