Kenya Tyson, JD is an internationally recognized criminal justice expert and higher education executive with expertise in the fields of race, crime, and inequality. Kenya is the Vice Provost for Strategic Initiatives at Dartmouth College. In this role, she serves as the Provost’s chief advisor and oversees academic compliance, institutional research, resource planning, and operations. She is also the founder and Executive Director of The Black Massacre Project. The Black Massacre Project is an independent public research center that explores the historical race massacres perpetrated against black communities in the United States. She has held several dean's positions and has nearly two decades of experience as a professor, speaker, and consultant. Kenya is currently the President of the Garden State Bar Association. She also serves as a co-director for the New Jersey Reparations Council and a member of the New Jersey Supreme Court Advisory Committee on Access and Fairness. She is a director on several Boards, including the International Commission for Dalit Rights, an international human rights organization that protects the civil and human rights of Dalit and caste-affected communities in South Asia and across the globe, and the Descendants of Rosewood Foundation, Inc. A Fulbright Scholar, Kenya has received recognition and awards in honor of her service and scholarship. Kenya is a fellow of the Higher Education Leadership Foundation and was recognized by the National Gang Crime Research Center as a recipient of the prestigious Frederick Milton Thrasher Award for her scholarship on gang courts. She was named one of the New Jersey Law Journal’s Diverse Attorneys of the Year and a Martin Luther King Jr. Champion for Justice honoree for the Governor’s Jefferson Award. Kenya is also a recipient of the Descendants of Rosewood Foundation’s Presidential Lifetime Achievement Award Gold Medallion.