Community Change Faculty
M. Candace Christensen
Associate Professor of Social Work
Daniel Alvarez
LEO Lecturer I
Trevor Bechtel
LEO Adjunct Lecturer and Poverty Solutions Student Engagement Coordinator
Ashley E. Cureton
Assistant Professor of Social Work, School of Social Work, and Assistant Professor of Educational Studies, Marsal Family School of EducationArts-based programs; Children & adolescents; Community-engaged research; Global social work & health; Immigration; Intervention research; Out-of-school time programs; Refugee policy & resettlement; Qualitative research methods; School-based Interventions; Urban education
Abigail H. Eiler
Clinical Associate Professor of Social Work, and Director of Undergraduate Minor Programs, School of Social WorkIntegrated Health, culturally-responsive care, social work and sports, social work ethics, suicide prevention and intervention, and child welfare service delivery.
Terri L. Friedline
Professor of Social WorkRacial capitalism, the financial system, technology, debt and abolition
Joseph A. Galura
CASC Undergraduate Minor Program Advisor and Adjunct Lecturer in Social Work, School of Social WorkCommunity service learning, especially how this pedagogy affects student outcomes; diversity, spirituality, and social work practice; the experiences of Filipino Americans, particularly in metropolitan Detroit.
Ayesha Ghazi Edwin
Clinical Assistant Professor, School of Social Work
Karla Goldman
Sol Drachler Professor of Social Work, School of Social Work, and Professor of Judaic Studies, College of LS&AAmerican Jewish women, American Judaism, Hurricane Katrina, Jewish identity, Jewish women, Jews in universities, University of Michigan, Jewish urban experience
Odessa Gonzalez Benson
Associate Professor of Social Workrefugee resettlement, state-civil society relations (regarding migration), labor migration, critical policy studies and the production of knowledge on social welfare, social work and forced migration
Greer Hamilton
Assistant Professor, School of Social WorkPlace-based research; how systems of oppression are embedded into the built environment and subsequently impact people’s health, well-being and use of public spaces.
Grace Helms Kotre
LEO Lecturer I
Gregory P. Hoffman
LEO Lecturer I
Vance Jackson Jr.
LEO Lecturer I
Shanna K. Kattari
Associate Professor of Social Work and Associate Professor of Women's Studies, College of Literature, Science, and the ArtsHealth disparities; health outcomes; discrimination; disability/ableism; gender identity; sexual orientation; intersectionality; mixed method; and power/privilege/oppression
Marlanna Landeros
LEO Adjunct Lecturer & Program Manager, DPSS
Ana Catalina Ormsby
LEO Adjunct Lecturer & Associate Director, Center for Educational Outreach
Rosalva Osorio Cooksy
Field Faculty and LEO Lecturer IV
Rogério Meireles Pinto
University Diversity Social Transformation Professor; Berit Ingersoll-Dayton Collegiate Professor of Social Work; Professor of Theatre and Drama, School of Music, Theatre & DanceImplementation Science; HIV prevention; Oppressed Groups; Practitioners; International Research
Daicia R. Price
Clinical Associate Professor of Social Work, and FLOURISH DirectorChildren and Families, Mental Health, Organizational Leadership, Supervision, Diversity and Inclusion, Gender Variances, Integrated Health, Suicide Prevention and Community Organization
Camille R. Quinn
Associate Professor of Social Work
Yatesha D. Robinson
Assistant Director of Field Education, Online Program and Adjunct Clinical Assistant ProfessorWellbeing in African American women, mental health and wellbeing, health disparities, racial microaggressions, children and youth.
Fatima Salman
ENGAGE: DETROIT Program Manager and LEO Adjunct Lecturer
Diana W. Seales
LEO Lecturer I
Nitesh Singh
Field Faculty and LEO Lecturer III
Carmen E. Wargel
LEO Lecturer ICarmen E. Wargel, MSW ’04, is a social justice community organizer and strategist committed to shifting power to build equitable systems.
Lisa M. Wexler
Professor of Social Work, School of Social Work, and Research Professor, Research Center for Group Dynamics, Institute for Social ResearchAmerican Indian/Alaska Native Suicide Prevention; Indigenous Youth Resilience; Culturally-Specific Behavioral Health Services; Digitally-Enhanced Participatory Research
Laura J. Yakas
LEO Lecturer II
Mieko Yoshihama
Professor of Social WorkViolence against women, community organizing and participatory action research in immigrant and marginalized communities, theatre-based prevention, mental health.
Roland W. Zullo
Associate Research Scientist, and LEO Lecturer II, School of Social Work