Dr. Tiffany Hairston

Director of Ph.D. Admissions/Assistant Professor
Tiffany Hairston

Dr. Tiffany Hairston is an Assistant Professor at the University of the Cumberlands. Her interests include colorism and multicultural issues, African American men and HIV, as well as injustices in the criminal justice system. She is currently working on a project addressing colorism and African American men. Dr. Hairston has over eighteen years of experience working in the field of Substance Use Counseling and ten years in Mental Health Counseling. She was recently awarded the Excellence In Teaching Award from the University of the Cumberlands in 2021. She currently volunteers as an active board member of NAMI of Northwest Ohio and is also an active member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. where she has held board and committee chair positions.  An interesting fact about Dr. Hairston is that she absolutely loves Christmas and watches all the Hallmark Christmas movies over and over again.

PhD Counselor Education and Supervision, University of Toledo 2016

Hairston, T. & Sullivan, L. (2021, October). Understanding Colorism: The 'ism' that Counselors should 
know about. Education Session presented at All Ohio Counseling Conference, Columbus, OH.

Darby, T. & Hairston, T. (2021, October). Culturally Responsive Tele-Supervision. Education Session 
presented at All Ohio Counseling Conference, Columbus, OH.

Joe, J.R. & Hairston, T. (2021, October). Filling the Gap: Teaching HIV Across the Counselor 
Education Curriculum. Poster session presented at Association of Counselor Education and Supervision National Conference, Atlanta, GA.

Freeman, A., Darby, T., Hairston, T., & Harris, P. (2021, September). The Double Pandemic and 
Educating from the Margins: An Analytic Autoethnography. Education session presented at the 2021 Black Mental Health Symposium.

Geha, W., Jones, K., & Hairston, T. (2021, April). State of the Community. Panel session 
Presented at the Promedica Opioid Summit, Toledo, OH.

Freeman, A., Darby, T., Hairston, T., & Harris, P. (2021, January). The 
Double Pandemic and Educating from the Margins: An Analytic Autoethnography. Panel session presented at The Qualitative Report 12th Annual Conference.

Darby, T & Hairston, T. (2020, October). Multicultural Aspects of Online Supervision. Education 
session presented at All Ohio Conference, Columbus, OH.

Sullivan, L. & Hairston, T. (2019, November). Uncomfortable: Multicultural Development in 
Supervision. Education session presented at All Ohio Conference, Columbus, OH.

Hairston, T. & Sullivan, L. (2019, October). Dear White People: We Judge Us Too. Education session 
presented at Association of Counselor Education and Supervision National Conference, Seattle, WA.

Joe, J.R., Ford, D., & Hairston, T. (2019, March). Counseling in the Fourth Decade of an Epidemic: The 
Past, Present, and Future of HIV/AIDS. Education Session presented at American Counseling Association National Conference, New Orleans, LA.

  • Multicultural Counseling
  • Addiction
  • Criminal Justice

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