Tara B. Blackshear is an equity scholar specializing in health, physical activity, and education. She is an Associate Professor of Kinesiology and Program Coordinator of the Physical Education Teacher Education program at Towson University. Dr. Blackshear is the first Black woman to earn tenure in her department. She earned her bachelor's and master's degrees in physical education at Florida A&M University and a doctorate in education in Exercise and Sport Science at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Before her current role, Dr. Blackshear taught for 17 years in public, private, charter, and international schools in the United States, Egypt, and Thailand. She also had a three-year post at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, working to prevent type II diabetes among middle school youth in the most extensive school-based physical activity intervention in the United States, instrumental to her recent project - BLinG-Health - Black Leadership in Girls' Health. She aims to assist Black girls and young women in physical activity leadership, increasing physical activity, improving health outcomes, and fostering a pipeline to the health and physical activity professions, as these fields grossly lack Black women's representation.