About Speaker

Dr Tina Marie Maschi is a heart-centred public servant, educator, social scientist, researcher, scholar, practitioner, researcher, and advocate. Her body of research, practice, and lived experience culminated in her development and cultivation of the caring justice philosophy and way of life. Throughout Dr Maschi’s academic career, she has fostered the growth of her authentic perspective in her teaching, research, scholarship, and practice to identify problems and to craft resilient and sustainable solutions. Dr Maschi has a solid track record as a dedicated public servant, researcher, and scholar who addresses underserved diverse populations in educational and community settings, including health, mental health, and research services in communities that included prisons and juvenile justice settings serving individuals, families and communities, adult prisons, juvenile detention centers, health and mental health care services.

Dr Maschi’s scholarship has also informed her lived experience as a woman with multiple minoritized identities. Based on her cultural consciousness practices of the many kinds of loves, she includes self-love as a foundation of her loving interconnections with family, neighbours, community, exhibiting what she calls ‘divine love and service consciousness.’ Additionally, Dr. Maschi’s public service You Tube Channel, Dr Ts Liberation Life Classroom (‘Wilsdom Creation’) represents a public awareness campaign to assist humanity to raise their consciousness to co-create a new inner and life and outer world. She is the author of five scholarly books, over 200 peer reviewed publications and book chapters that address social justice, human and natural rights, trauma, stress, and coping resilience, including self-healing strategies used by diverse incarcerated male and female older adults and youth.