Reshawna Chapple, Ph.D., LCSW, is an associate professor in the School of Social Work at the University of Central Florida. She has worked as a clinical social worker in the areas of mental health, crisis intervention, education and disabilities. Her teaching focuses on culturally responsive social work practice, psychosocial pathologies, intimate partner violence, clinical practice with families and forensic social work. Chapple’s research contributes to the scholarship in the areas of Critical Deaf Studies, Critical Race Feminism, and the intersections of Social Work Praxis. Her body of work advances social justice-oriented frameworks by employing Black feminists’ theories and qualitative methodologies to examine the lived experiences of marginalized individuals, intersecting identities, structural inequities and mental health disparities. Chapple’s work seeks to fill significant gaps in the literature related to mental health treatment disparities and access to culturally responsive services for Black women and D/deaf women who have experienced trauma related to intimate partner violence. She received her BSW, MSW and Ph.D. in Justice Studies from Arizona State University. Her dissertation was titled: Being a Deaf Woman in College is Hard. Being Black Just Adds: Understanding the Complexities of Intersectionality.