Faculty

Gina Ambrogio, MSW '15, is a licensed clinical social worker who completed her undergraduate and graduate education at the University of Michigan. She focuses on interpersonal practice with children and adults, including individual, family and group therapy. In her professional career, she is ...

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 ...

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 ...

Zahraa Boussi, MSW '14, is a licensed school social worker who specializes in students with disabilities such as Autism Spectrum Disorder and Emotional Impairment. She is a Certified Trauma Practitioner - Clinical (CTP-C) from Starr Commonwealth. She has extensive experience in providing ...

Mercedes Brown (she/her/hers), MSW '08 and JD '13, is an experienced leader with deep expertise in public policy and equitable systems transformation. Throughout her career as a social worker and attorney, Brown has led with her passion for advancing social justice. It is with that commitment ...

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 ...

Brooke Buys, MSW '13, PhD, focuses on innovative mental health care development, complex family systems and gender-responsive addiction treatment. Buys is the founder and CEO of BLND Health, a mental health care company located in Michigan and Colorado. The BLND team is composed of clinical ...

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 ...

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.

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Linda Edwards-Brown, LMSW, began her professional career with the Washtenaw County Trial Court where she served in various capacities. She retired from the court in 2020 as the Juvenile Division Administrator, a position she held for over twenty years. Edwards-Brown is passionate about juvenile ...

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 ...

Karyn Gendreau, MSW ‘13, is currently employed as a suicide prevention coordinator at the Department of Veterans Affairs Ann Arbor Healthcare System. She has worked for the VA for 7 years in suicide prevention, and previously in the Health Care for Homeless Veterans program. Before joining the ...