Dr. Dei-Sharpe, a Canadian sociologist of Ghanaian and Jamaican heritage, is a scholar of gender and race. Her work examines how race, gender, and power shape Black masculinities and gender relations in Canada and across the African diaspora. She began her academic journey at the University of Toronto, where early projects on gender, multiculturalism, and municipal programs for marginalized communities revealed the importance of qualitative research in capturing lived realities and exposing the persistence of systemic inequalities. Her focus on Black masculinities emerged from observing dehumanizing portrayals and societal treatment of Black men and the underexamined literature on the Black male experience within the Canadian context, sparking an enduring commitment to humanizing their experiences and amplifying complex narratives of identity, care, and justice. As an educator, Dr. Dei-Sharpe is passionate about advancing decolonial pedagogy through community-engaged scholarship and initiatives. She brings scholars together through her role as co-lead of the Race and Ethnicity Research Cluster of the Canadian Sociological Association, as well as founder of the Decolonial Perspectives & Practices Hub, to re-imagine universities through inclusive and justice-oriented education. She furthers her commitment to knowledge exchange as the guest editor for the Black Hemispheric Perspectives special issue of the Association of Inter-American Studies.