Dr. Stephanie Latty is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Criminology at Toronto Metropolitan University. Stephanie holds a Ph.D from the Department of Social Justice Education at OISE and the Women and Gender Studies Institute at the University of Toronto. Stephanie’s areas of expertise include Black feminisms, critical race theory, anti-Blackness, carcerality, gendered violence, and abolition. Her current research examines the media and legal discourses surrounding Black women and girls who have experienced strip-searching and other forms of state violence in Canada. Stephanie's work has been published in Lateral, Somatechnics, The Critical Ethnic Studies Journal and The Lauryn Hill Reader.

Stephanie was formerly a Professor at George Brown College in the School of Social and Community Services where she taught Human Rights and Anti-Oppressive Practice in the Community Worker and Child and Youth Care programs. She served on the Board of Directors of Planned Parenthood Toronto from 2017-2020. Stephanie holds a Masters of Social Work from Ryerson University and a Bachelors of Social Work from Laurentian University. In 2016, Stephanie was awarded the prestigious Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship and in 2019, Stephanie was awarded the George Sidney Brett Memorial Award by the University of Toronto.

Prior to commencing doctoral studies, Stephanie worked in the field of social work in both front-line and policy capacities at organizations such as Humber College, Griffin Centre Mental Health Services and Women's Health in Women's Hands Community Health Centre.