Tanisha Hill-Jarrett

Tanisha Hill-Jarrett (she/her) is a neuropsychologist, Afrofuturist, and Assistant Professor of neurology at the University of California San Francisco’s Memory and Aging Center. She also holds a faculty appointment at the Global Brain Health Institute at the University of California San Francisco and is a Global Atlantic Fellow for Equity in Brain Health. Tanisha received her PhD in clinical psychology from the University of Florida and completed postdoctoral fellowships in neuropsychology and brain health equity at the University of Michigan and University of California San Francisco.

Her program of research aims to identify and measure the social and structural determinants of Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias among older Black adults. She has received funding from the National Institutes of Health, Global Brain Health Institute/Alzheimer’s Association, and the American Psychological Association. She is Principal Investigator of a grant that seeks to examine the associations of structural racism and sexism with Black women’s cognitive aging. As a scientist and clinician, she is committed to making wellness, healing, and brain health accessible to the community through engagement in the arts and Afrofuturism. Tanisha uses Afrofuturism as a framework to create counternarratives and reimagine an equitable the future through a lens of hope. In her work, she incorporates Afrofuturism as a culturally informed approach to community engagement, knowledge co-production, and social change. Tanisha developed the creative aging program, Radical Imagination, a strengths-based creative aging and Afrofuturism program for Black women elders in the San Francisco Bay Area.