Dr. Samira Omar, PhD, is a recent graduate of the doctoral program at the Rehabilitation Sciences Institute, University of Toronto. She is a Black traumatic brain injury (TBI) rehabilitation researcher whose work is grounded in personal, professional, and academic knowledge of how racial health disparities impact the health and well-being of Black people living with TBI and their caregivers. Her PhD dissertation is the first set of Canadian studies to provide a comprehensive understanding of institutional racism in Black experiences of TBI rehabilitation research and practice using innovative approaches with important implications. She has won several awards both locally and nationally during her doctoral studies. Most recently, she was awarded an inaugural Black Scholars Personnel Award funded by Heart & Stroke, Brain Canada, and Canadian Institutes of Health Research Institute of Circulatory and Respiratory Health (CIHR-ICRH) to continue this program of research.