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Field Faculty

  1. Yatesha D. Robinson Yatesha D. Robinson

    Yatesha Robinson joined the Office of Field Education as a Field Faculty and Lecturer in 2018. She has been working with non-profit organizations since 1997, with 21 years of direct service experience with women, children, youth and families. She has served the community in various capacities, ...

  2. Nitesh Singh Nitesh Singh

    Nitesh Singh is a field faculty member and a Lecturer III at the University of Michigan School of Social Work. Singh’s teaching and scholarship focuses on interventions that address social and political polarization, community-engaged program and policy development, as well as the application of ...

  3. Aimée M. Vantine Aimée M. Vantine

    Aimee Vantine joined the Office of Field Education as field faculty and a LEO lecturer in spring 2021. Prior to this, she spent 23 years at Michigan Medicine working in a variety of clinical and macro positions with a primary focus on pediatrics and obstetrics. She was the Children’s and ...

Tenure-Track Faculty

  1. Lydia W. Li Lydia W. Li

    Professor Lydia Li is a gerontologist. Her research aims to understand and advance healthy aging among older adults in disadvantaged socio-economic positions. Her current research focuses on social isolation, depression and ageism. She is a fellow of the Gerontological Society of America (GSA) ...

  2. Daphne C. Watkins Daphne C. Watkins

    Daphne C. Watkins is a University Diversity and Social Transformation Professor at the University of Michigan who studies: (1) behavioral interventions for historically marginalized groups; (2) mixed methods approaches to research in context; and (3) leadership development and organizational ...

Clinical and Research

  1. Abigail H. Eiler Abigail H. Eiler

    Abigail Eiler, MSW '06, is a licensed clinical social worker and educator with 20 years of experience working in tribal and non-tribal communities across the country and in Canada. In 2014, Eiler started as a LEO Lecturer at the University of Michigan School of Social Work and joined the ...

  2. Justin D. Hodge Justin D. Hodge

    Justin Hodge is a clinical assistant professor of social work at the University of Michigan. He is the co-lead for the Policy & Political Social Work Pathway and the director of the Online Certificate in Political Social Work. Hodge is committed to increasing the presence of social workers in ...

LEO

  1. Daphne M. Brydon Daphne M. Brydon

    Daphne Brydon, MSW '09 and PhD '21, is a licensed social worker with nearly 20 years of direct practice with adults and children within hospitals (inpatient, outpatient, emergency department), community organizations and education settings. She is licensed in Michigan with both clinical and ...

  2. Sean J. de Four Sean J. de Four

    Sean de Four currently serves as the President and CEO of Southwest Solutions, one of Detroit’s most innovative and impactful nonprofit organizations, which provides a range of services in the areas of behavioral health, economic self-sufficiency, workforce development, affordable housing, ...

  3. Kathleen G. Doyle Kathleen G. Doyle

    Katie Doyle teaches courses in leadership and management of social impact organizations. Prior to joining the faculty, Doyle was the Executive Director of Ozone House Youth and Family Services in Ypsilanti, MI. This award-winning, 50-year-old nationally recognized nonprofit provides 24-hour ...

  4. Joseph A. Galura Joseph A. Galura

    Joseph A. Galura is an advisor/lecturer for the undergraduate minor in Community Action and Social Change. He also is a lecturer in the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts and has developed, implemented and taught service-learning courses in Sociology (Project Community), Education ...

  5. Elizabeth Gumbis

    Elizabeth Gumbis, MSW '02, is both a licensed clinical social worker and a school social worker. She also holds a master's degree in education from Teachers College, Columbia University. She has over 15 years of experience working with adolescents and families in the public school system, both ...

  6. Grace Helms Kotre Grace Helms Kotre

    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 ...

  7. Monica D. Sampson Monica D. Sampson

    Monica Sampson, LMSW, is a clinical and macro social worker with 30 years of practice working with vulnerable children, youth, families and communities. Her purpose is to inform and educate individuals on diversity, equity and inclusion by utilizing her educational and professional expertise ...

  8. Laura J. Yakas Laura J. Yakas

    Dr. Laura Yakas completed her PhD in anthropology and social work here at the University of Michigan in 2018. Her passion is disability justice (especially the Mad Pride and neurodiversity movements) and its connection to other forms of anti-oppression like intersectional feminism, antiracism ...

  9. Ayesha Ghazi Edwin Ayesha Ghazi Edwin

    Ayesha Ghazi Edwin, MSW '10, is a political social worker and community organizer with over 10 years of experience in various social justice areas, including labor, healthcare, voting, immigration, housing and disability. Ghazi Edwin serves as a lecturer and program manager for the School of ...

  10. Tammie B. Glenn Tammie B. Glenn

    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.

  11. Jessica K. Camp Jessica K. Camp

    With experience as a clinical and community social worker, Dr. Jessica Camp, MSW ‘05, PhD ‘13, works to address barriers to economic equality, opportunity and well-being in southeastern Michigan. Her research and community practice has addressed topics such as: trauma exposure and disconnection ...

Emeritus

  1. Edith C. Kieffer Edith C. Kieffer

    Professor Edith C. Kieffer, MPH, Ph.D., University of Michigan School of Social Work, conducts research addressing health and health care disparities. She has extensive experience planning, conducting and analyzing data from qualitative formative research and intervention research studies in ...

  2. Rose C. Gibson

    Rose C. Gibson joined the University of Michigan Institute of Gerontology as a research investigator in 1979. She was promoted to assistant research scientist in 1982 and associate research scientist in 1984. She joined the faculty of the School of Social Work in 1985 as an associate professor ...

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