Bahira Sherif Trask is an author, professor, and speaker on issues of family change, family complexity, relationships, globalization, gender, work and family issues. She holds a B.A. in Political Science from Yale University and a PhD in Cultural Anthropology from the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Trask is a professor of Human Development and Family Studies at the University of Delaware. She is also the author and editor of five books including Women, Work and Globalization (2014) and Globalization and Families (2010), and she has published over fifty peer-reviewed articles, chapters and review articles on globalization, cultural and family diversity, gender roles, and work and family life in significant edited volumes and handbooks. Dr. Trask regularly speaks about the complex issues facing working families, and women in particular, to audiences at international organizations such as the United Nations, at major corporations such as DuPont and Microsoft, and at international conferences all over the world, In August 2012 she gave a TEDx lecture on Global Family Changes that has been widely viewed.Much of Dr. Trask's scholarship has been informed through participation with a number of international, national and community based research projects that focus on diversity, gender and work, and strengthening low-income families. Dr. Trask's involvement on these projects reflects her belief that academics need to apply their knowledge towards bettering social conditions.