Kerry Tripp, JD, is a lawyer and a Principal Lecturer in the Department of Family Science where I built a field of study on how the law helps to keep families healthy. She is theauthor of Family Law for Non-Lawyers. For over 15 years she hasI taught undergraduates and graduate law classes at UMD, including a study abroad comparative family law and public health class in Havana Cuba and my Global Classroom, a virtual law and ethics class on assisted reproduction technologies in conjunction with the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro in Brazil. She is the recipient of the 2021 Cognella/National Council of Family Relations (NCFR) “Innovative Teacher Award” ,  for the project, UMD Virtual Global Internships. Prior to that sheI received the MVP (Most Valuable Professor) UMD Women’s Gymnastics 2018 and the MVP (Most Valuable Professor) UMD Women’s Field Hockey 2017. She was inducted into UMD’s Omicron Delta Kappa National Leadership Honor Society (Sigma Circle, UMD) in 2021 and received the Faculty Service Award for UMD’s President’s Commission on Disability Issues in 2019.