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Danny Alvarez (they/them), MSW ‘12, is a passionate facilitator, educator and organizer who has applied social work practices to their work for the last decade. With practices strongly rooted in popular education and intergroup dialogue pedagogy, they have taught, developed and managed programs ...

LEO Lecturer II Tony Alvarez serves as the School's point person for the use of experiential, adventure and wilderness approaches to social work practice. Professor Alvarez's research focuses on the design of effective experiential & adventure-based programs for social workers in multiple ...

Hillary Baldwin Steller, MSW ’10, has specific training with trauma survivors and clients with PTSD. Her approach is holistic, experiential and strength based in nature. Currently she is a clinician in southeastern Michigan and works with children, families and adults of marginalized ...

Rick Barinbaum, MSW is a social worker and teacher with over 15 years of experience working to strengthen vulnerable families and keep them intact. Rick was the Social Work Co-Director at the Center for Family Representation, a legal, social work, and policy organization that advocates for ...

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 ...

Zaynab Boussi is a licensed clinical social worker at her private practice, Clarity Therapy, LLC, and a school social worker for the Dearborn public school district. Boussi has been providing mental health services since 2003 and areas of expertise include children, adolescent, family, anxiety, ...

Daphne Brydon, MSW '09, worked for more than 15 years in direct practice with adults and children within hospital, community organizations and academic settings. Most recently, Daphne worked as a clinical social worker in the Emergency Department at the University of Michigan Health System. She ...

Joe Cafferty, MSW’13, is a clinical social worker with the Department of Veterans Affairs, Ann Arbor Healthcare System. Cafferty currently works in the Mental Health Clinic at the Toledo Community-Based Outpatient Clinics providing various evidence-based mental health treatment services, in ...

In partnership with youth and communities, Mary Jo Callan has spent her career working to advance equity in social, political, and economic power. She has served in K-12 schools, local governments and nonprofits before coming to U-M. Her time at Ozone House, a youth development and housing ...

Jeff Capobianco has over 20 years of clinical, administrative, and healthcare research experience, with extensive background in primary and behavioral healthcare integration, evidence-based practice implementation, Lean Six Sigma methodologies, and learning community approaches to organizational ...

Theadia L. Carey, MD, MS is program director for the Authority Health Psychiatry Residency Program. She is certified in general psychiatry and addiction psychiatry by ABPN, also Addiction Medicine certified by ABAM. Dr. Theadia LaRue Carey, is a native Detroiter. She completed all of her ...

ROXANNE J. CHANG, JD, MS LLP, is an attorney specializing in elder and special needs law. She is also a Limited Licensed Psychologist, with a Graduate Certificate in Gerontology. Ms. Chang has experience in consultation and advocacy for persons with dementia, developmental disabilities, and ...

Diana Copeland has an extensive background in environmental justice advocacy, environmental project management and community organizing. Copeland creates coalitions between environmental organizations, community and environmental justice groups to benefit environmental justice and health ...

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 ...