Faculty

Tammie B. Glenn is currently a consultant with Wayne State University School of Medicine MIFAST initative, a cooperative project with the State of Michigan office of Community Mental Health, and Project CARE, a cooperative project with Detroit-Wayne County Community Mental Health.

Grace Helms Kotre (she/her), MSW ’07, is passionate about integrating contemplative practices into social justice education. She is committed to unlearning systemic whiteness and employing anti-racist and anti-oppressive pedagogies in all areas of her life. She currently teaches undergraduate ...

Relando Thompkins-Jones, MSW '11, is a social worker, educator, and aspiring humanitarian interested in conflict resolution, improving intergroup relations and building more inclusive communities.    He works with students, faculty and staff in institutions of higher education on college ...

Jewel Woods (MA, MSW, LISW-S) serves as the founder and clinical director of Male Behavioral Health & the Center For Men & Boys. A licensed independent social worker with training supervision designation, Woods boasts over two decades of advocacy experience, working with and on behalf of ...

Jamie LaLonde, MSW ’14, developed a passion for healthcare and geriatrics during an internship at U-M’s Turner Senior Resource Center.  For the past 20 years, she has used that passion to serve in roles within nursing home, assisted living, memory care and hospice spaces where she strives to ...

Priscilla Cortez, MSW '12, works with individuals and groups to develop strengths-based partnerships with the community and to increase personal wellness in everyday practice. Cortez is passionate about working with trauma-focused groups and immigrant youth and families. A Texas native, who ...

Colleen E. (Kenna) Crane, MSW'01, has focused her primary practice interests in sexuality, gender identity, trauma and women's issues. Crane spent more than two years working in Detroit as the senior clinician for the Teen Age Parenting Program (TAPP) at The Children's Center, where she worked ...

Bonnie Dockham, MSW '02 is a licensed medical social worker in out-patient, inpatient and community settings. Dockham is the founding program director of the Cancer Support Community of Greater Ann Arbor and currently the executive director. Her work focuses on community-academic partnerships ...

Mari Pitcher, MSW 2000, specializes in grief work, trauma work and patient and family centered care for individuals, and their families, with life limiting illnesses. Currently a member of the Univ of Mich Med Center Palliative Care Consult Team, she has over 16 years of hospice, palliative care ...

Maureen Okasinski, MSW'96, focuses on individual, group and family practice with youth and families, in addition to community organizing, evaluation and administration. Okasinski is currently consulting in program evaluation, program development, grant writing and leading a small nonprofit.  ...

Julie Cushman is currently a clinical director at Home of New Vision. She also has a private practice doing consulting and program evaluation for community services and agencies.

Jennifer Heckendorn, MSW’07 is a geriatric social worker who specializes in consultation and therapy for aging individuals, caregivers and family members through her private practice, Heckendorn Consultation and Therapy, PLLC. Heckendorn is also experienced in assisting families with issues ...

Anthany Beasley, MSW ’15, focuses on individual, group and family practice with LGBTQIA+ youth, adolescents, young adults and families with a specific focus on working with transgender and non-binary individuals. Beasley currently provides trauma-informed therapeutic services from his private ...

Trevor Bechtel, PhD ’08, focuses on questions of ethics and the human in his teaching and scholarship. He works at Poverty Solutions at the University of Michigan coordinating all student-facing work. He has taught ethics and religion in small liberal arts colleges throughout the Great Lakes ...

Jamie Kynn, MA, MSW, focuses on research methods, program evaluation, social welfare policies and violence prevention. Their work is centered on understanding violence at a macro-level and how social workers can improve how institutions interact with historically marginalized populations. Kynn ...

Carmen E. Wargel, MSW ’04, is a social justice community organizer and strategist committed to shifting power to build equitable systems. For the past 17 years, she has improved coordinated community responses to survivors of domestic violence, sexual assault and human trafficking through ...

Douglas Manigault III (he/him), MSW '15, is a respectful boundary pusher, experienced relationship manager and strategist. A macro social worker by training and profession, Manigault has worked in organizations across Southeastern Michigan to support program development, volunteer engagement, ...