Faculty

Dr. Jessica Camp, MSW ’05, has over two decades of experience as a clinical and community social worker in southeastern Michigan. Her expertise centers on advancing equitable access to opportunity and well-being, specifically through reducing systemic barriers to recovery and equitable employment, expanding social welfare and jail diversion programs, inclusive entrepreneurial practices, supporting trauma-informed workforce development programs, and promoting justice in research, data and emerging technologies.

Professor Carter studies associations between pubertal development and patterns of adjustment (psychological, behavioral, and health), with particular attention to how pubertal processes, social-cultural contextual factors (family, peers, teachers, romantic partners), and wider social systems (culture, ethnicity) interact to contribute to girls’ adjustment problems from late childhood to young adulthood. Within the above context, her work focuses on three interrelated lines of research:

Professor; Co-director, Community Liaison Core in the Michigan Center on Urban African American Aging Research

Linda M. Chatters is a professor in the Department of Health Behavior and Health Education, School of Public Health and professor in the School of Social Work. She is a faculty associate with the Program for Research on Black Americans at the Institute for Social Research and the Center for Research on Ethnicity, Culture and Health. The focus of Dr. Chatters' research is the study of adult development and aging in relation to the mental and physical health status and functioning of older persons in a variety of social contexts (i.e., the family, church, and community).

Professor Barry Checkoway is an internationally-recognized scholar and practitioner on youth empowerment, neighborhood development, and community change. His projects and publications draw on work with grassroots groups, community agencies, and government programs in the South Bronx, Detroit, Mississippi Delta, central Appalachia; and in South America, Europe, Africa, and the Middle East, with support from the World Health Organization, Ford Foundation, Kellogg Foundation and other institutions.

Dr. M. Candace Christensen (they/them) is an associate professor at the University of Michigan School of Social Work.

Miriam Connolly is a two time alumna of the University of Michigan. A native of Flint, she earned a BSW from U-M-Flint, and an MSW from the School of Social Work, with a concentration in Child Welfare and Interpersonal Practice. For 18 years, Connolly served children and their families in a wide variety of roles with the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), including foster care specialist, foster care recruitment, licensing specialist, manager and DHHS liaison.