Since her days as a scholar-in-residence with the Bahamas Crisis Centre in 2022, Associate Professor of Social Work and Social Research Tamarah Moss's scholarship has been community-focused with trauma-informed and culturally responsive education, research, and practice.
In January,Moss represented the Centre at the Caribbean Humanitarian Partnership Platform’s Rapid Gender Analysis (RGA) Training. This inaugural training for 13 participants representing the English-speaking Caribbean countries was sponsored by CARE and the Caribbean Gender Alliance, two groups dedicated to providing holistic care across the Caribbean. In line with this mission, the RGA training teaches attendees about the different needs, capacities, and coping strategies of women, men, boys, and girls in crisis situations across gender identity, age, and disability.
Moss will delve more deeply into her disaster response and recovery scholarship by developing a Gender in Brief report with the onset of the 2025 Atlantic hurricane season. Done in partnership with the Bahamas Crisis Centre and various non-governmental organizations (NGOs), this report will include the compilation and analysis of existing secondary disaggregated statistics on sex, age, and disability. It will be used to inform governmental and NGO-based community engagement before they are needed on the ground, with the hope of developing more meaningful and targeted assistance across the archipelago of The Bahamas during emergencies.
To kick off her report, Moss facilitated meetings during late May 2025 with over twenty organizations in New Providence and the Family Islands to discuss lessons learned from Hurricane Dorian and other disasters and strategies for more effective disaster response and recovery. She will continue to conduct gender analysis across gender identity, age, and disability this summer.
Moss, trained in social work and public health, has been a longstanding volunteer with the Bahamas Crisis Centre and serves as its director of research and evaluation. She is also the co-convener of the Mellon-funded Tri-Co Caribbean Studies Working Group with Assistant Professor of Africana Studies Paul Joseph López Oro. Her scholarship continues with the formation of the Network of Community Organizational Partnerships during Emergencies (The Bahamas).