Faculty

Marlanna Landeros, MSW '13, is the assistant director of the Adolescent Health Initiative, at the University of Michigan Health. She is responsible for supporting and developing initiatives and practices that promote diverse and inclusive resources and trainings for youth-serving professionals and health care providers.

Kat Layton, MSW '18, is a licensed clinical social worker, harm reductionist,and public-sector leader whose work sits at the intersection of behavioral health, housing, the criminal legal system and community-centered policy. Her approach is deeply informed by over a decade of cross-sector direct service and personal experience connected to the criminal legal system, particularly her father's incarceration, bringing lived and professional knowledge into policy spaces often disconnected from the communities they aim to serve.

Dr. Shawna J. Lee is professor and Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs at the University of Michigan School of Social Work, where she also directs the Parenting in Context Research Lab and the Program Evaluation Group (PEG). Her research focuses on child maltreatment prevention, father involvement, parenting stress and family well-being.

Laura Lein is the former dean of the University of Michigan School of Social Work (2009-2016). Formerly professor of social work and anthropology at the University of Texas at Austin (UT), she was a respected researcher and teacher from 1985 to 2008. She has served as principal investigator on multiple grants on poverty, family and women's issues, and impoverished populations in Texas.

Associate Professor Edith Lewis's primary research interests include methods used by women of color to offset personal, familial, community, and professional role strain.

Professor Lydia Li is a gerontologist. Her research aims to understand and advance healthy aging among older adults in disadvantaged socio-economic positions. Her current research focuses on social isolation, depression and ageism. She is a fellow of the Gerontological Society of America (GSA) and a Hartford Geriatric Social Work Faculty Scholar. She served as the co-chair of the 2016 GSA program committee. She is associate editor of the International Journal of Social Welfare. She also serves on the editorial board of Research on Aging and Journal of Gerontological Social Work.

Shirley Lockery joined the University of Michigan faculty in 1990 as an assistant professor and was promoted to associate professor in 1998. Prior to her appointment at the School of Social Work, Lockery earned a certificate in gerontology and practiced for many years as a registered nurse. She also was a faculty member at San Diego State University from 1983 to 1990. She retired in 2003 as associate professor emerita.

Dr. Katie Lopez is an adjunct clinical associate professor and director of the Office of Global Activities at the School of Social Work. She leads the administration office, which includes managing study abroad opportunities for students, international institutional partnerships, scholarship and grant opportunities, programming to support international degree-seeking students, and the exchange visitor program. As a licensed social worker, she serves as field faculty for MSW students completing placements outside the U.S.