Tanya Poppleton

Tanya Poppleton, U of T Scarborough’s new director of campus safety, brings more than 25 years of experience and a commitment to embedding equity, diversity and inclusion principles into staff training.

Poppleton joins UTSC from Ryerson University where she recently managed the campus’s security response team as well as the overall security infrastructure and emergency response plans. She also managed Ryerson’s first ever community engagement campus safety office, which included bringing innovative community safety programs to campus.

Throughout her decades-long career Poppleton has also adopted training programs dedicated to equity, inclusion and diversity (EDI) principles. This ranged from formal training – including unconscious bias training – to making sure EDI books and learning materials from experts were made available to her staff.