Contact My SSW Intranet

Main menu

Katie Lopez

Director of Office of Global Activities and Adjunct Clinical Assistant Professor

Katie Lopez

Dr. Katie Lopez is an adjunct clinical assistant professor and director of the Office of Global Activities at the School of Social Work, where she is responsible for the overall administration of the office including study abroad opportunities for students, scholarship and grant opportunities, programming to support international degree-seeking students, and the exchange visitor program. As a licensed social worker, Lopez also serves as field faculty for students completing placements outside the U.S. and exchange students completing placements in Michigan. She is currently a faculty co-lead for the Global Social Work Pathway concentration.

Lopez has lived and worked abroad in countries including Mexico, the Philippines, Tanzania and Honduras. Her work in these settings inspires her commitment to building intentional, mutually beneficial and sustainable collaborations among social work programs to train students to address global issues. Lopez frequently presents on a variety of topics at social work and international education conferences in the U.S. and abroad. She received her MSW degree from U-M with a focus on community organizing. Lopez received her PhD in Higher, Adult, and Lifelong Education from Michigan State University. Her dissertation focused on issues of diversity, equity and inclusion for students of color studying abroad.

Education

Year Degree   School
2023 PhD Higher Adult & Lifelong Education Michigan State University, Lansing, MI
2010 MSW University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
2006 Ed Cert University of St. Thomas
2005 BA Anthropology University of Notre Dame
Year Description
2022 Gonzalez Benson, O., Bares, C., Lopez, K., Yoshihama, M., & Cureton, A. (2022). Aiming for Crtifical Reflexive and Transformative Global Social Work Pedagogy: Insignts on Curriculum Development presented at the CSWE 2022 Annual Program Meeting, Orlando, FL.
2021 Chang, S-Y, & Lopez, Shih-Ya, C., Eldredge, E., Lopez, K., & Meng, W. (2021). Field Education Institute: Supporting International Students Through Field Instruction. Presented at the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE) 2021 Annual Program Meeting, Orlando, FL.
2021 Williams, A., Solomon, P., & Lopez, K. (2021). Fostering international social work education through global partnership: A model for student in exchange in India and the United States. Virtual session presented at the Social Work, Education, and Social Development conference.
2020 Christiaens, R., Lopez, K., (chair) Smith, R., & Brezina, K. (2020). Trans passport day: Advising and programming to support trans/non-binary folks. Poster presented at the Diversity Abroad, New Orleans, LA.
2019 Lopez, K. (session chair) & Chizek. J. (2019) Collaborating for Change: Leveraging Technology to Prepare Students for Ethical and Sustainable Community Engagement. Session presented at the Forum on Education Abroad Annual Meeting, Denver, CO.
2018 Coughlin, J., Kowatch, K., Lopez, K., Nelson, K., & Nolting, B. (2018, June) Development of Best Practices in International Engaged Learning Opportunities at a Decentralized Research University. Presented at the Global Internship Conference, Detroit, MI.
2018 Aamodt, H., Brezina, K., Østertun Geirdal, A., Kleppe, L. C., Lopez, K., Olkowska, A. & Ruffolo, M. (2018). Developing a Multifaceted and Bilateral Institutional Partnership that Benefits Students and Faculty. Oral session presented at the Joint Conference on Social Work, Education and Social Development, Dublin, Ireland.
2018 Lopez, K. (session chair) & Ruffolo, M. (2018). Holistically Preparing Students for Sustainable Community Engagement Using a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC). Session presented at the Joint Conference on Social Work, Education and Social Development, Dublin, Ireland.
2015 Voshel, E., & Lopez, K. (2014, October). Global global engagement: Developing best practices for social work graduate internships. Presented at the Council on Social Work Education 2014 Annual program Meeting, Tampa, FL.
2015 Griffin, R., Keeler, E., & Lopez, K. (2014, October). Returning student programming: From evaluation to student learning outcomes and beyond. Presented at the Association of International Educators NAFSA Region V Conference, Grand Rapids, MI.

Contact Us Press escape to close