Tina D. Rollins is the Director of the William R. and Norma B. Harvey Library at Hampton University. She completed her B.S. degree in Criminal Justice at Old Dominion University and her M.L.S. degree at North Carolina Central University. While at NCCU she was a member of the Diversity Scholars Program which was an Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) funded program to recruit students of diverse backgrounds into the Library and Information Sciences field. This experience led to an interest in promoting and research diversity within librarianship. Rollins has committed herself to bringing awareness to the lack of diversity within all facets of the LIS field. She has served as principal investigator on a grant awarded to Hampton University by IMLS. This award convened a national forum in August 2018 to discuss effective strategies and action planning to address the lack of diversity within the LIS field. In 2020, subsequent funding was awarded by IMLS for the project grant. This three-year grant seeks to work with leaders and administrators in LIS to build and assess strategies to address the continued issues related to diversity within the field.