Adjunct Bios M-O
Joseph Madonia, MSW, LCSW-R (NY, NJ, PA), CASAC
Adjunct Assistant Professor
jrm213@nyu.edu
For 18 years, I served as the Director of one of the leading Drug and Mental Health Courts in the nation. During my tenure, I pioneered and managed the development and operation of the first DWI, Veterans, and Co-Occurring Mental Health Treatment Courts in Brooklyn, NY.
I am a graduate of New York University and a Licensed Clinical Social Worker. My academic and professional qualifications include several degrees and certifications, among them Credentialed Alcohol and Substance Abuse Counselor and Forensic Mental Health Counselor. With over 28 years of experience, I have specialized in working with forensic populations and individuals with co-occurring disorders.
In addition to my clinical practice, I conduct professional development trainings for clinicians across the United States. I also maintain a private psychotherapy practice in both New Jersey and New York, where I specialize in treating adolescents and young adults facing addiction and mental health challenges.
Dr. Michelle P. Maidenberg, PhD, MPH, LCSW-R, CGP
Adjunct Lecturer
mpm2004@nyu.edu
Michelle P. Maidenberg is the President/Clinical Director of Westchester Group Works, a Center for Group Therapy in Harrison, NY where she also maintains a private practice. She is also the President and Co-Founder of “Thru My Eyes” a nonprofit 501c3 organization that offers free clinically-guided videotaping to chronically medically ill individuals who want to leave video legacies for their children and loved ones. She created the Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) Program at Camp Shane and Shane Diet Resorts and directs and supervised the program. Dr. Maidenberg has advanced training in CBT from The Beck Institute and teaches a Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy graduate course at New York University (NYU).
She is a consultant and trainer and often presents at conferences and publishes on the topics of childhood obesity, health and weight management, parenting, childhood development, socialization, general health related issues, trauma, assertiveness training, and group treatment.
Dr. Maidenberg completed Cognitive-Behavioral institute training from the Beck Institute in 2009. She earned a Master's in Public Health in 2006 from Hunter College, Urban Public Health - Community Health Education. She earned her Ph.D. in 2001 in Social Work from Yeshiva University, Wurzeiler School Of Social Work. In 1996, Dr. Maidenberg attended the Family Therapy Institute At SUNY Health Science Center At Brooklyn and earned a two-Year Postgraduate Training Certificate in Marital & Family Therapy. She also earned a Post Graduate Certificate in Social Work Administration in 1996 from Hunter College, School Of Social Work. In 1994, Dr. Maidenberg earned her Master's in Social Work from New York University, Shirley M. Ehrenkranz School Of Social Work.
Dr. Alissa Mallow, MSW, DSW, LCSW, NYS
Adjunct Lecturer
malloa01@nyu.edu
Dr. Mallow is the Director, Social Work for the Montefiore Medical Group, Montefiore Medical Center Bronx NY, an Assistant Professor, Department of Family and Social Medicine, and adjunct faculty at Adelphi University School of Social Work. Her professional and research interests include treatment of substance using adult survivors of childhood trauma, adult survivors of critical incidents, and provision of collaborative care in primary health care. She has published with colleagues, Blackmore, M.A., Carelton, K.E., Ricketts, S.M., Patel, U.B., Stein, D., Mallow, A., Deluca, J.P, and Chung, H. (in press). Comparison of collaborative care and colocation treatment for patients with clinically significant depression symptoms in primary care. Psychiatric Services; Dr. Mallow is on the Editorial Board of Urban Social Work and a reviewer for Journal of Social Work Practice in the Addictions.
Marc Ross Manashil, MSW, MPA
Adjunct Assistant Professor
marc.manashil@nyu.edu
Marc is a consultant and educator specializing in leadership development. His background is in global health and philanthropy, having served in director roles with an international grantmaking foundation, a medical relief organization, and an NGO preventing child mortality in West Africa. Marc studied adaptive leadership while pursuing his MPA at the Harvard Kennedy School from 2009-2010 and served as a Teaching Assistant to Dr. Dean Williams. He has since facilitated numerous leadership training programs for nonprofit and philanthropic organizations. As an Adjunct Assistant Professor, Marc teaches leadership in graduate courses and co-facilitates NYU Silver’s Adaptive Leadership Fellowship Program where select graduate students learn intensively about the framework and apply it in the context of their practicum placements. Marc is also a Lecturer at the University of California, Davis Graduate School of Management. In addition to his MPA, he holds a BA from the University of California, Santa Barbara and an MSW from the University of California, Berkeley.
Karen Manasse, MSW, LCSW
Adjunct Assistant Professor
km202@nyu.edu
Karen Manasse teaches second-year practice courses at the Silver School of Social Work. She also provides clinical supervision to social workers and consultation on program development to administrators at Harlem RBI and East Harlem Tutorial Program.
She also worked at the Mount Sinai Adolescent Health Center, where she supervised social work staff, and at Safe Horizon, where she was the director of the Child and Adolescent Trauma Treatment Services (CATS) program.
Karen has expertise in working with children who have experienced trauma, and she provides individual supervision, group supervision, and ongoing training to social workers in Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. She also has extensive experience in school social work, both in direct service and supervision of school social workers. She received her BA in English literature from the University of Pennsylvania and an MSW from NYU, where she was the recipient of the Key Pin Award for scholarship and leadership.
Shreya Mandal, MSW, JD, LCSW (NY), CHt
Adjunct Lecturer
sm7819@nyu.edu
Shreya Mandal is the Owner of One World Mitigation, a mitigation consulting practice that collaborates with law firms throughout the United States. She has nearly twenty years of combined forensic and clinical experience in capital defense, criminal defense, immigration law, and personal injury law. She has been a qualified expert witness in both federal and state courts since 2005. In addition, she has an evening psychotherapy practice in New York City. Professor Mandal is a Chapter Author in Forensic Social Work: Psychosocial and Legal Issues Across Diverse Populations and Settings, Second Edition. She earned a Master of Social Work degree from Smith College School for Social Work and a Juris Doctorate from Rutgers Law School. Professor Mandal is also a graduate of the Harvard Program in Refugee Trauma, Harvard Medical School, where she received a postgraduate degree in Global Mental Health and Trauma Recovery.
Dylan Marks, MSW, LCSW (NY), MA
Graduate Student Adjunct
dm1853@nyu.edu
Dylan currently has a thriving full-time private practice with a focus on interpersonal relationships. Dylan is expanding this practice into a therapy center, All Genders Therapy. The focus of the practice and the main research interest centers on gender identities and how they can become integrated into one's sense of self. There is also a focus on toxic masculinity and embodied fantasy therapy developed to express and experience disavowed gendered personality aspects.
Dylan worked for six years as a full-time psychotherapist at the Karen Horney Clinic and there completed a two-year fellowship with training in psychodynamic psychotherapy. Dylan also trained intensively at two different relational psychoanalytic institutes, CMPS and AIP.
Dylan published a book review for The Journal of Modern Psychoanalytic Studies on the psychoanalytic attitude and romanticism.
SIFI-certified, Dylan earned an MA in English literature from the university of Chicago--having also taught literature on the college level--an MSW from NYU and is in the last year of study in the Doctoral in Social Welfare program at NYU.
Dr. Nelly Marte, MSW, PhD, LCSW-R (NY)
Adjunct Lecturer
nem271@nyu.edu
Nelly Marte has worked in both the child welfare system and private practice for over 25 years. She has counseled families that have been impacted by domestic violence, trauma, physical and sexual abuse and socio-cultural issues. In addition, she is EMDR trained to process trauma. She has worked in New York City her entire career serving diverse communities dealing with immigration issues such as acculturation, separation and reunification. Dr. Marte’s dissertation was on ‘The Experience of Early Parental Separation due to Piecemeal Immigration to the United States Among Dominicans.’ For over 20 years, she has supervised social workers on achieving their professional goals including credentials for the LCSW. She has guest lectured at the Fordham University School of Social Work and has taught topics that include: Basic Counseling Techniques, Play Therapy with Sexually Abused Children, Understanding Your Child's Development, Cultural Sensitivity & Treatment Issues with Hispanic Clients, and Recognizing the Signs of Abuse and Neglect.
Porsche Martin, MSW, LCSW (NY)
Adjunct Assistant Professor
plm227@nyu.edu
Porsche L. Martin, LCSW, is currently in private practice specializing in child and adolescent, couples and family therapy integrating clinical practice with mindfulness, nutrition, exercise and sleep foci, and serves as behavioral health consultant to non-profit organizations as the founder of Martin Professional Psychotherapy and Consulting.
Ms. Martin’s research interests include associations between spirituality and mental health, health disparities and oppression, and neuroscience and human behavior. Porsche serves as adjunct lecturer at NYU Silver and Hunter Silberman Schools of Social Work, lecturing in first and second year courses in Human Behavior in the Social Environment and Clinical Practice, and volunteers with the New York City Medical Reserve Corps (NYC MRC). Porsche received the Exemplary Responders Award for her contributions during Hurricane Sandy. She has provided clinical and consulting/management services at Northside Center for Child Development, Mental Health Association, The DOME Project, Safe Horizons and Children’s Aid Society.
Ms. Martin received her MSW and post-graduate training in clinical supervision from NYU's Silver School of Social Work and is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in New York.
Dr. Mary R. Mastria, MSW, PhD, LCSW (NJ)
Adjunct Assistant Professor
mm239@nyu.edu
Dr. Mary Mastria is a psychotherapist who has been in full-time private practice for 20 years working with adults, adolescents and couples. Practice specialties include eating disorders, trauma, mood disorders and relationship issues. She has conducted, published and co-authored research on ethnicity and eating disorders and eating disorders treatment (Eating disorders changes in the DSM-5: Clinical Implications, 2013). She received NJ state certification in child sexual abuse treatment and has advanced training and a doctorate in clinical social work from New York University.
Linda Mathew, DSW, MSW, LCSW-R
Adjunct Lecturer
lm408@nyu.edu
Linda Mathew, DSW, MSW, LCSW-R, is a Social Work Manager at Memorial Sloan-Kettering (MSK) Cancer Center. She is certified in CBT, meaning-centered psychotherapy, and palliative and end-of-life care. Dr. Mathew earned her MSW and DSW from NYU’s Silver School of Social Work (NYUSSW). She co-created REACH for Caregivers and co-led the Talking with Children About Cancer Programs at MSK. Dr. Mathew is an antiracist practitioner and an active member of MSK Social Work Department’s Antiracism Committee.
Dr. Mathew is a master trainer for ESPEC: Educating Social Workers in Palliative and End-of-life Care. Dr. Mathew is currently President-elect for the Association of Oncology Social Workers and serves on the ESPEC board, as well as on several editorial boards. Dr. Mathew has presented locally and nationally; and she is a published author. Dr. Mathew is an adjunct faculty member of NYUSSW and Smith College. She maintains a private practice.
Dr. Reji Mathew, BSW, MSW, PhD, LCSW (NY)
Adjunct Assistant Professor
rm150@nyu.edu
Dr. Reji Mathew is a senior clinical social worker at the Counseling and Wellness division of the New York University Student Health Center. Her interests include health and wellness, health care advocacy, integrative psychotherapy, and coping skills education. She is trained in CBT, DBT, TB-CBT, EMDR, Narrative Thearpy and the Voice Dialogue method.
Dr. Mathew earned a BSW from Dominican College and an MSW and PhD from New York University School of Social Work. Dr. Mathew is the recipient of the 2004 Greenstein Fellowship Dissertation Award. She also received an Alumni Service Award for her health advocacy writing from the Dominican College Alumni Association in 2012.
Dr. Mathew is a freelance health advocacy writer. She publishes a web-site showcasing her articles on wellness. She has interviewed numerous health advocates and experts in various disability and health communities.
She is an Assistant Adjunct Professor at the NYU Silver School of Social Work where she teaches DBT, CBT, Positive Psychology, Mindfulness and Interpersonal Psychotherapy.
She is also a member of ASJA - American Society of Journalists & Authors. See her Website for more information - Reji Mathew, PhD - Writer - http://www.rejimathewphd-writer.com/
Peter Maugeri, MSW
Adjunct Lecturer
pm115@nyu.edu
Peter holds a Master of Science in Social Work from Fordham University. He is a university lecturer, consultant, trainer, and media artist, and has facilitated programs internationally with over 5,000 youth from across 75 communities in the U.S., Haiti, Dominican Republic, Nicaragua, France, Senegal, and Indonesia. Peter has 14 years of experience in designing, facilitating, managing, and evaluating youth development and community-based programs. He is seasoned in aligning program and community needs by cooperating with policymakers, key influencers, and non-profit leaders. He has worked closely with NYC and Boston public high schools, community organizations, higher education institutions, and youth practitioners to provide coordinated, holistic support in ensuring that youth successfully overcome barriers to post-secondary pathways. He believes that when young people are effectively supported in developing and optimizing their skills and social capital, challenging experiences impact self-efficacy and can positively shape their life course trajectory.
Dr. Maria Mays, PhD, MSSW
Adjunct Lecturer
mm10831@nyu.edu
Dr. Maria Mays is an Adjunct Assistant Professor at New York University’s Silver School of Social Work, as well as Stony Brook University, where she teaches human behavior and research courses at both the graduate and undergraduate level. She is also the founder of a research and tutoring company (mlmConsulting), which provides assistance and expertise to students and/or human service agencies in research methodology. She often provides online tutoring for doctoral students preparing for their research comprehensives and assistance with the research methodology component of their dissertations. Maria’s previous research has involved program evaluations of ground-breaking community projects, such as an innovative intervention program for substance abusing pregnant women and a novel community policing project, as well working on creative evaluative measures for clinicians working with adolescents in residential treatment centers.
Dr. Mays has been teaching in academia for over twenty years and has received nominations for Outstanding Graduate Professor from Phi Alpha National Social Work Honor Society (2013) and the Award in Excellence in Teaching from the University of Texas at Arlington, School of Social Work (2004).
Gabriella McBride, DSW, LCSW (NY)
Adjunct Assistant Professor
gc85@nyu.edu
Gabriella McBride, LCSW, DSW, earned her MSW degree from CSSW in 2006 and DSW from NYU in 2023. Following a supervisory role at New York Foundling, she joined Mott Haven Academy Charter School in 2009, where she served as a Founding Social Worker and the Director of Social Services until 2021. Gabriella established the school's social-emotional programming, centering a culturally responsive approach. Gabriella has supervised MSW students since 2007 and taught as an adjunct faculty member at NYU Silver since 2016. Gabriella's teaching is influenced by critical pedagogy, aiming to transform social work practice both within the classroom and in practicum placements. Gabriella's doctoral capstone was on the use of technology in social work education and using dialogic pedagogy in classrooms and group supervision as an anti-racist teaching practice. Currently, Gabriella is involved with the launch of the School Social Work Training Academy at NYU Silver School of Social Work; a program dedicated to the training of school social workers serving youth and families in New York City. Gabriella is also a proud mama of two beautiful children.
Dr. Mary C. McCluskey, LCSW, DSW
Adjunct Lecturer
mm649@nyu.edu
Dr. Mary C. McCluskey, DSW, LCSW, graduated with a doctoral degree in social work from The University of Pennsylvania School of Social Policy and Practice. She earned her masters in social work from Columbia University. She is in private practice in New York City, as well as a senior candidate in training at The American Institute of Psychoanalysis. Dr. McCluskey has taught social work at New York University, The University of Pennsylvania, Fordham University and Simmons College. Dr. McCluskey recently published an article, “The Pregnant Therapist: A Qualitative Examination of the Client Experience” in The Clinical Social Work Journal. She is interested in trauma treatment and prevention and the ways in which psycho-education and therapy can be utilized to prepare pregnant women for the realities of motherhood and to better facilitate healthier bonding and attachment.
Charlotte McCullagh, LMSW, PhD
Adjunct Lecturer
cam792@nyu.edu
Charlotte McCullagh, LMSW, PhD, is a clinician who works with low-income LGBTQIA adults, as well as with sex therapy clients, after completing five years of clinical training at the Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy in LGBTQIA affirming care and sex therapy. Dr. McCullagh completed her PhD in 2022 at the Columbia School of Social Work; her research focused on the intersection between policy and practice, specifically as it pertains to improving outcomes for older adults living with HIV/AIDS. Additionally, she has researched harm reduction policies and international policies relating to substance misuse, as well as improving outcomes for YBMSM living with HIV/AIDS. She has taught SWPP1, Human Sexuality, Introduction to Social Work, and HBSE at Columbia and NYU.
Allison McCullough, MSW, LCSW
Graduate Student Adjunct
acm257@nyu.edu
Allison is a third year doctoral student in social work at NYU. Her research focuses on the intersection of gender and incarceration and seeks to find ways to bring anti-oppressive work to carceral spaces. Allison's social work career began as a street homeless outreach worker and she has been working as an advocate within the criminal legal system for the past five years. She recently left the Osborne Association where she worked as the Deputy Director of Court Advocacy Services and focused on decarceration efforts with women and gender expansive individuals detained on Rikers Island. Allison earned a BFA in dramatic writing from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts and an MSW from Columbia University. She recently authored a book chapter, "Anti-Oppressive Work with Women in Carceral Spaces," to be published in Springer's upcoming book "Reframing Social Work with an Anti-Oppressive Lens: A Guide for Beginning Practitioners."
Stephen McDonnell, MSW, M.Div., LCSW (NY)
Adjunct Lecturer
sm8835@nyu.edu
Stephen McDonnell, LCSW, is a psychotherapist in private practice in New York City. Stephen is a certified psychotherapist and supervisor in Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP) and Emotionally Focused Therapy for Couples (EFT). Stephen is a graduate of Wurzweiler School of Social Work, Yeshiva University, and Seminary of the Immaculate Conception, Huntington, NY (M.Div.). Prior to private practice, Stephen was Program Manager for the HIV Disease Prevention and Health Promotion Dept. at Whitman-Walker Clinic, Washington, DC, and Clinical Supervisor and Trauma Trainer for Nassau County Dept. of Drug and Alcohol Addiction, Hempstead NY. Stephen has served as Practicum Instructor for Adelphi, Fordham, Stony Brook, Hofstra, and Catholic Universities, and has been an Adjunct Professor at Touro College, School of Health Sciences, and C.W. Post, Long Island University.
Joann McEniry, MSW, LSW (NJ)
Adjunct Lecturer
jm6990@nyu.edu
Joann McEniry, MSW, LSW is a licensed social worker in the state of New Jersey with more than fifteen years of experience working on advocacy and policy initiatives for vulnerable and oppressed populations. She has an extensive background in community organizing, designing and implementing responses to address social injustices faced by the HIV/AIDS, LGBTQI, homeless, mental health and substance use populations. McEniry has worked internationally in the development of culturally competent programming by conducting a community wide needs assessment in Moshi, Tanzania and by aiding in the development of a full scale HIV/AIDS prevention and education initiative in Miragoane, Haiti. In addition, she has a great deal of experience in non-profit development, administration and management and currently holds the position of Chief Operating Officer of New Jersey AIDS Services. Appointed by Senator Cory Booker during his term as Mayor of the City of Newark, McEniry also serves as the Chair of the Comprehensive Planning Committee of the Planning Council of the City of Newark overseeing HIV/AIDS community health planning for five counties in New Jersey.
C. Lockhart McKelvy, BLA, RISD, MSW, LCSW
Adjunct Assistant Professor
clm3@nyu.edu
Lockhart McKelvy has been in private practice in the NYU area for over 20 years. Prior to a commitment to full-time practice, he was involved in a variety of work focusing on HIV/AIDS-related services. In addition to publishing clinical articles in books and journals about his work with clients, he volunteered and worked for the GMHC and marched with ACT UP. While working at The Family Center he wrote the intervention modules used in an NIMH study focusing on the outcomes of permanency planning on children living in families with chronic illnesses.
Lockhart is interested in how the traumatic impact of teasing and childhood stressors can affect adult personality structure. He uses a variety of cognitive and psychoanalytic theories to help patients both manage anxiety and further integrate disparate "self states."
Select Publications:
McKelvy, L. (1993). The well children in AIDS families project: A hospital-based program. In C. Levine (Ed), A death in the family: Orphans of the HIV epidemic. (pp. 104-109). New York: United Hospital Fund.
McKelvy, L. (1995). Counseling children who have a parent with AIDS or have lost a parent to AIDS. In W. Odets. & M. Shernoff (Eds.), The second decade in the age of AIDS: A mental health services handbook. New York: Hatherleigh Co. Ltd.
Drainin, B. & Mckelvy, L. (1995). Services for adolescents. In Goldstein, P. (Ed), Mental health services for HIV infected populations in New York City. New York: The Coalition.
Levine C., Draimin B. & McKelvy L. (1995). AIDS and its traumatic effects on families. In Y. Danieli, (Ed), Multigenerational legacies of trauma: An international handbook. New York. Plenum Publishing Corporation.
Draimin, B. & McKelvy, L. (2002). Their second chance: Grandparents raising their grandchildren. In D. Joslin, (Ed), Invisible caregivers: Older adults raising children in the wake of HIV/AIDS. New York: Columbia University Press.
Melissa Meinhart, PhD
Adjunct Lecturer
mm10289@nyu.edu
Melissa Meinhart has a PhD in Social Policy from Columbia University’s School of Social Work with a social science concentration in economics. Dr. Meinhart’s research focuses on the development of methodologies to critically measure and examine the underlying constructs that perpetuate gendered inequities and social discordance in low- and middle-income countries, particularly within humanitarian emergencies. Her career in social work began while working with street children in Ghana. She was a caseworker and direct-practice researcher for refugee resettlement in the United States before focusing her attention on global humanitarian policy and research. In addition to her adjunct teaching positions, Dr. Meinhart works as an independent research consultant in humanitarian emergencies across Africa, Asia, Europe, South America, and the South Pacific.
Dr. Vera Michaels, PhD, LCSW (NY)
Adjunct Professor
dr.veramichaels@nyu.edu
Private Practice Psychotherapist - with individuals and couples.
Sarah Ann Mikhail, MSW, LMSW
Adjunct Lecturer
sam609@nyu.edu
Sarah Mikhail, a licensed social worker, is the Senior Director of Community Support at The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Community Center. Sarah brought her background in child welfare to The Center and spent her first three years in her former role working to increase advocacy and education for LGBTQ youth within the child welfare system. In Sarah’s current role, she oversees programming that supports the LGBT community in building and sustaining families, career development, immigration support, HIV prevention, TGNC support and mental health services. Prior to working at The Center, Sarah worked as a social worker in the foster care system working to improve outcomes for youth aging out of care. Sarah is also an adjunct professor at NYU’s Silver School of Social Work, where she received her MSW, as well as an adjunct professor at Hunter College’s Silberman School of Social Work.
Madelyn Miller
Adjunct Associate Professor
mm56@nyu.edu
Madelyn Miller works with adult survivors of trauma and loss in her psychotherapy practice and community work, teaches and trains on these issues, and provides support for the well-being and resourcefulness of colleagues and programs closely engaged with survivors and their communities. She is Adjunct Associate Professor at NYU Silver School of Social Work, Master's Program and Advanced Clinical Practice Certificate Program. Since 1997 she chairs the Disaster Trauma Committee, NYC-NASW. Her disaster work includes direct response with a variety of disaster-specific organizations, as well as support and training with colleagues and community groups, as well as continuing education.
Broader areas of interest include her consideration of the complexities of clinical work with trauma and loss survivors, inclusion of a community perspective after collective trauma and loss, appreciation of the centrality of relational dimensions in all trauma and loss practice, and attention to the experience of clinicians and others working with survivors, enhancing what can be sustaining for them and supporting their creative efforts toward resourcefulness and resilience.
She received her MSSW from Columbia University, and her PhD from NYU Silver School of Social Work, where she was the recipient of the President's Service Award for Leadership, and the Silver Citizenship Award.
Publications:
Miller, M. (2014, November/December). Reflections on social work in NYC in the context of Ebola. Currents of the New York City Chapter, National Association of Social Workers, 59, 2, 13-14.
Miller, M. (2013, January/February). What we are learning for the future: In the wake of Super Storm Sandy. Currents of the New York City Chapter, National Association of Social Workers, 57, 3, 6-7.
Miller, M. (2011, September 8) Reflecting on 9/11 after a decade. Blog entry posted on National Association of Social Workers, New York City Chapter website. http://naswnyc.wordpress.com/2011/09/08/reflecting-on-911-after-a-decade/.
Miller, M. (2010, January 19) Supporting New York City’s Haitian community: A message to social workers. Document posted by National Association of Social Workers, New York City Chapter, to NYC Chapter listserv.
Dr. Anna Morgan-Mullane, MSW, DSW, LCSW-R (NY)
Adjunct Lecturer
amm1414@nyu.edu
Dr. Morgan-Mullane, LCSW-R serves as Vice President of Mental Health Services for Children of Promise, NYC (CPNYC). Dr. Morgan-Mullane conducts an extensive training program for MSW interns, licensed social workers, psychiatrists, and art therapists on site of CPNCY that allows everyone to gain critical culturally responsive therapeutic skills needed to support children impacted by parental incarceration.
In 2012, Dr. Morgan-Mullane and President and Founder of CPNYC, Sharon Content, successfully established the first outpatient mental health clinic in the United States specifically designed to address the needs of children and adolescents impacted by parental incarceration. Dr. Morgan-Mullane has also developed clinical policies and practice guidelines and launched an evidence-based treatment model which includes the employment of Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Narrative Therapy, complex trauma systems theory, and Mitigation Practices, which are all at the forefront of trauma-informed clinical practices for children of incarcerated parents. With over a decade of clinical practice, Dr. Morgan-Mullane’s work explores the intersection of clinical social work, social policy, and criminal justice. She continues to present her research across the country which focuses on the intergenerational effects of incarceration, the unique psychological factors experienced by children of incarcerated parents, and the causes and effects of mass incarceration. Dr. Morgan-Mullane is also an adjunct lecturer in the NYU Silver School of Social Work where she teaches a course she developed on the intersectionality of criminal justice reform and mental health implications for those impacted by mass incarceration. Dr. Morgan-Mullane recently presented her research at the National NASW conference in Washington D.C., NASW-NYC, third and Fourth Annual CE Conference, and at the Global Prison Conference in South Africa at the University of Johannesburg. Dr. Morgan-Mullane recently published this work in the Clinical Social Work Journal on her research of the efficacy of trauma-informed practice and children of incarcerated parents and started the first Training Institute out of Children of Promise, NYC for licensed practioners to receive CEU clinical hours while participating in the anti-racist training practice employed within the agency’s community-based model.
Yuval Moses, MSW, LCSW-R (NY)
Adjunct Assistant Professor
ym728@nyu.edu
Yuval Moses is a certified AEDP therapist and Supervisor and an intensively trained DBT therapist. Yuval’s psychotherapy practice is based in NYC and he provides remote supervision and trainings nationally and internationally. Before founding his private practice and training program Yuval worked in the non-for-profit world. After years of working in the foster care field, Yuval became a clinical supervisor at the Crime Victims Treatment Center where he specialized in the treatment of adults experiencing Dissociative Disorders and Complex PTSD, especially as these presentations relate to childhood sexual abuse and other traumatic childhood experiences. It was during his work at the Crime Victims Treatment Center that he encountered AEDP and it very quickly became his therapeutic home.
Yuval is also comprehensively trained as a DBT therapist and supervisor and has built and supervised DBT teams in different clinics nationally. He is particularly interested in how AEDP and DBT complement each other when working with clients with chronic higher risk behaviors and emotion dysregulation. Yuval earned his bachelor's degree from BGU and his MSW from NYU and he speaks and works in both Hebrew and English fluently.
Brian Mundy, MSW, LCSW-R
Adjunct Assistant Professor
bem259@nyu.edu
Brian Mundy is a therapist in private practice, a clinical trainer and consultant, and an adjunct associate professor at NYU. He is the co-founder of Sound Behavioral Health, whose mission is to support clinicians and service providers with making evidence based practices live and breathe in their work with clients. He is the recipient of the 2012 National Association of Social Workers - NYC Emerging Leader award in recognition of his clinical work with children, adults, and families. He received his Master’s Degree in Social Work from NYU, is a New York state certified Motivational Interviewing instructor, and has had advanced training in Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Multi-Systems Therapy, Functional Family Therapy, and Acceptance Commitment Therapy. He has authored peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters, and his co-authored book Therapy in the Real World was released to wide acclaim on Guilford Press in July 2013.
Publications:
Mundy, Brian & Wofsy, Matt. (2016). Diverse Couple and Family Forms and Universal Family Processes. In S. Kelly (Ed.) Diversity in Couple and Family Therapy: Ethnicities, Sexualities, and Socioeconomics. New York: Guilford Press.
Boone, Matthew S., Mundy, Brian, Morrissey-Stahl, Kate, & Genrich, Bethany E. (2015). Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Functional Contextualism, and Clinical Social Work. Journal of Human Behavior in the Social Environment, 1-14.
Robinson, Patricia J. & Mundy, Brian. (2014) In Pursuit of Excellence: Developing Acceptance Commitment Therapy Competencies for Delivery of Brief Interventions. In M. Boone (Ed.) Contextual Behavioral Science and Social Work. Berkeley, CA: New Harbinger Press
Boyd-Franklin, N., Cleek, E.N., Wofsy, M., Mundy, B. Therapy in the Real World. (2013). New York: Guilford Press
Nancy J Murakami, MSW, LCSW (NY)
Adjunct Assistant Professor
njs236@nyu.edu
Ms. Murakami is Program Manager of a psychosocial support program in Nyakabande Refugee Transit Centre in Kisoro, Uganda, with the community-based organization Friends of Kisoro. She is a DSW student at NYU Silver School of Social Work and Graduate Research Assistant at NYU Silver’s Center on Violence and Recovery. Ms. Murakami conducts live and web-based trainings domestically and internationally on topics including trauma-informed approaches, group work, social work approaches with survivors of persecution and forced displacement, working with interpreters, and provider wellbeing. She is co-editor of a book in the Geisel Series in Global Health and Medicine. She earned an MSW from Columbia University School of Social Work.
Murakami, N. & Thandar Shwe. (2015). Assessments and interventions: Strengths-based approaches in contexts of displacement. In K. Allden & N. Murakami (Eds.), Trauma and recovery on war's border: A guide for global health workers (pp. 49-84). Dartmouth, NH: University Press of New England.
Elizabeth Murdoch, MSW, LCSW
Adjunct Lecturer
em692@nyu.edu
Elizabeth Murdoch is the Director of Behavioral Health at Family & Children's Agency in Norwalk, CT., and maintains a private psychotherapy practice for individuals and families, also in Norwalk.
Areas of interest are attachment, trauma, and particularly family therapy..
Graduated from New York University School of Social Work (then the Ehrenkranz School) in 2004. Recipient of the Eleanor Seevak Award for mature students.
Tracy Murphy, LCSW (NY) & (NJ)
Adjunct Lecturer
tn278@nyu.edu
Tracy graduated with her Masters' Degree in Social Work from NYU in 2001. She has worked in outpatient, inpatient and private practice settings. She has certifications in Trauma-Focused CBT, DBT, CBT and MICA Specialist. She currently works as the program manager of Transitions, IOP at Jawonio. She created that program from the ground up. Tracy is passionate about her work and clients and believes in the concepts of neuroplasticity and that everyone has the capacity to learn and grow.
Arianne Napier-White, MSW, LMSW (NY)
Adjunct Lecturer
ajn330@nyu.edu
Arianne J. Napier-White, LMSW (she/her) is the Trauma Support Manager of the Brooklyn Rapid Assessment and Response team, at the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene where she develops citywide strategies to address and strengthen neighborhood resilience. She has served as an adjunct lecturer at NYU Silver School for Social Work teaching in the Zelda Foster Palliative EOL Post-Master's Certificate program and the MSW program. She also serves as the Practicum Faculty Adviser at Smith College School for Social Work advising clinical social work students and serving as liaison between student, school, and practicum placements. Her professional experiences have included serving in acute trauma settings providing grief counseling as a palliative care social worker, crisis intervention in emergency departments, and providing psychotherapy in outpatient mental health clinics. Arianne received her MSW from Smith College School for Social Work and is an alum of the NYU Silver Zelda Foster Studies Palliative and End-of-Life Care Post-Master's Certificate Program.
Abigail Nathanson, MSW, DSW, LCSW, APHSW-C, ACS
Adjunct Assistant Professor
an768@nyu.edu
Dr. Nathanson graduated with her MSW and DSW from NYU. Her work focuses on clinical practice in serious illness and grief work from a trauma-informed lens, and she has 15 years of clinical and leadership experience in healthcare. She does consulting work and has a private practice focusing on these issues. Dr. Nathanson is the co-editor of the forthcoming textbook, "The Practice of Clinical Social Work in Healthcare" from Springer Press, and she holds advanced designations in EMDR, AEDP, Meaning-Centered Psychotherapy and Clinical Supervision, and holds board certification in Palliative Care. She has presented nationally on topics relating to caregivers, program development and best practices for medical social workers.
Dr. Elana Needle, PhD
Adjunct Assistant Professor
en40@nyu.edu
Elana Needle is the Anchor Collaboration Coordinator at Race Forward. As the Anchor Coordinator, Elana brings 9 nationally preeminent racial justice organizations together to work on short and long term collaborative projects to move the needle on racial equity in the US. Previously, she worked in the leadership development field, a childhood obesity intervention, and addressing various women's issues. Elana received her BA in Women’s Studies and an MA in Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning both from Tufts University, and her PhD from Stony Brook University, in Social Welfare.
Elana’s research interests are racial, economic and gender inequality in the United States. Past topics included: intersectional analysis of domestic violence survivors, assessment of TANF legislation, middle school factors leading to high school drop out, and the extent to which desegregation in four CIvil Rights Era cities impacted African American residents. Elana’s dissertation applied a Social Determinants of Health theoretical model to childhood obesity, concentrating on the school food environment, race, gender and socioeconomic status.
Ally Nektalov
Adjunct Lecturer
an1325@nyu.edu
I am a Licensed Clinical Social Worker/Psychotherapist with an MSW (Master’s of Social Work) from New York University and hold a certificate from New York State as an Advanced CASAC (Certified Alcohol and Substance Abuse Counselor). I've also completed the Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy training at the Alanson J. White Institute; which is an interpersonal psychoanalytic model.
In addition to my private practice, I was a Director and Clinical Supervisor of a SAMSHA funded outpatient clinic that sought to engage substance using population. Clients were offered to participate in individual and/or group psychotherapy addressing triggers to substance use and past trauma. I developed and implemented grant related activities, including coordination of the day-to-day project operations. I also supervised program staff; ensuring quality care and compliance with program policy and procedure.
Currently, I am an Adjunct Professor at New York University Silver School of Social Work & Touro College School of Social Work; teaching Clinical Practice for social work graduate students; and building on the school’s legacy and reputation in the field for Social Work education.
Haileigh Nelson
Adjunct Lecturer
hn2260@nyu.edu
Haileigh Nelson is the Director of Care Coordination at the Institute for Family Health in the Bronx. In this role, she/they supports a team of Care Coordination staff who work with individuals experiencing multiple chronic physical, psychological and social needs. She/they also developed an innovative and robust training program for incoming and current staff, as well as cultivates partnerships with Community Based Organizations that seek to eliminate health inequities. As a NSWM Policy Fellow, Haileigh focused on addressing racial equity issues faced by the Black community in public health. She/they has continued to expand on her/their research in this area, and is working to develop a framework to support and sustain reparative justice work. An exemplary activist for equity and social justice, Haileigh works tirelessly at advocating for refined processes, policies and programs that are anti-racist and works to achieve racial equity in all areas of her/their work and life.
Haileigh has a Bachelor’s of Science in Pre-Physical/Occupational Therapy from Loyola Marymount University and a Master’s in Social Work from Hunter College’s Silberman School of Social Work. She serves on committees such as the Statewide Multicultural Advisory Committee where she is a vocal advisor to the Commissioner of Mental Health for New York State. Lastly, Haileigh is a fashion enthusiast and is currently developing a platform that combines her/their interest in fashion and design with social and economic justice.
Margaret Ngunang, MSW, LCSW (NY)
Adjunct Lecturer
mtn207@nyu.edu
Private Practice/Consultant: Margaret’s work experience and background are in the areas of CPS, HIV/AIDS, Foster Care, DV Services, PCP and international humanitarian services with Doctors Without Borders. She graduated from NYU in 2003 with an MSW and completed postgraduate training in couples and family therapy and a Certification in Couples Mediation from the Ackerman Institute for the Family. She has a post graduate certificate from NYU in Non-Profit Leadership and Management. She is a trauma informed clinician and a social justice advocate, a voice for women’s empowerment, embracing issues of gender and discrimination in the workplace, domestic violence, immigration, mental health and homelessness, poverty and its intersection with justice, race, oppression and privilege. Areas of Expertise:Reflective Supervision and challenging institutional structural racism and having conversations on how it affects patient care within organizations and how to move them towards a race conscious outcome. Recent NPR Interview with Nurith Aizenman.
Anthony Nicotera, JD, DSW, LCSW
Adjunct Assistant Professor
aln2@nyu.edu
Dr. Nicotera serves as Assistant Professor at Seton Hall University and Director of NYU’s nationally recognized Post-Master’s Certificate Program in Spirituality and Social Work. He has been practicing clinically and teaching for over 20 years. He has published book chapters and scholarly journal articles on the Circle of Insight framework, a process he created to foster the practice of peace, justice, and transformative love, www.circleofinsight.org. He teaches courses at the intersection of policy, race, law, social justice, spirituality, and social work, and helps lead the Fellowship of Reconciliation (FOR), the nation’s oldest, multifaith peace organization.
He worked with FOR member Thich Nhat Hanh, nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize by Dr. King, to create the award-winning The 5 Powers Revolution film. FOR members Arun Gandhi, and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Mairead Maguire invited him to speak at peace-building and human rights conferences domestically and internationally. He regularly presents and provides workshops on social justice, spirituality, and social work.
He spent six years as a member of the Society of Jesus (the Jesuits), a religious order in the Roman Catholic tradition. As a Jesuit, he worked internationally and domestically in prisons, hospice facilities, inner-city parishes and schools, and legal and social service centers. He has been arrested or detained some 20 times for faith-based nonviolent civil resistance. He also lived and worked in Latin America with community organizations and victims of war and violence, and in Calcutta with Saint Mother Teresa.
Amanda Nieliwocki, DSW, MSW, LCSW (NY, NJ)
Adjunct Lecturer
avn280@nyu.edu
Amanda Nieliwocki is the assistant director of the BS in Social Work program at NYU Silver, and an adjunct instructor in both the MSW and undergraduate programs.
Dr. Nieliwocki specializes in the treatment of children, adolescents, and their families and has worked throughout the adolescent mental health care continuum in the roles of social worker, lead social worker and program manager. Dr. Nieliwocki is certified in Trauma-Focused CBT and has facilitated clinical training in the areas of trauma-informed care, depression and suicide, and verbal de-escalation.
Dr. Nieliwocki has a special interest in social work education and is dedicated to the pursuit of standardizing social work practicum education. Dr. Nieliwocki is SIFI trained and has supervised several interns from Rutgers University and NYU. She is a qualified clinical supervisor, supervising LSW/LMSWs for independent licensure since 2016.
Dr. Nieliwocki received her DSW from New York University Silver School of Social Work, her MSW from Fordham University Graduate School of Social Service and her BSW from Temple University School of Social Work.
Dr. Jeanne Nugent, PhD, MSW, MA, LCSW (NY), CGP
Adjunct Lecturer
jeanne.nugent@nyu.edu
Jeanne Nugent is Clinical Associate in Psychiatric Social Work at the Columbia Day Treatment Program. She is also a Psychotherapist in Private Practice and Faculty in Psychiatry at Columbia University Medical Center, with experience in individual, couple and group psychotherapy, and specialties in disorders of anxiety, mood, personality, identity, and substance use. Jeanne received her MSW from Hunter College—CUNY, and her MA and PhD in art history from the University of Pennsylvania.
Jeanne has undergone foundational training in DBT through Behavioral Tech-Linehan Institute, SIFI certification at NYU, interpersonal psychotherapy training at the William Alanson White Institute, and modern psychoanalytic training through the Center for Group Studies. She has extensive experience leading groups, including manualized treatment (CBT, DBT, Seeking Safety, symptom-management, relapse-prevention), specialized groups (substance abuse, diverse gender and sexuality, co-occurring disorders, gender-specific), psychoeducation groups (community resources, addictions), and process groups integrating DBT-informed, interpersonal psychotherapy, and modern analytic methods.
Ikechi Nwankwo, MSW, MPA
Adjunct Lecturer
idn206@nyu.edu
Ikechi is a policy professor at New York University’s Silver School of Social Work. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology from the University of California, Davis, and his master’s degrees from the Silver School of Social Work and the Robert F. Wagner School of Public Policy at NYU.
Ikechi has practiced social work in California and New York. He has worked in child welfare, mental health, and chemical dependence settings. He has also worked as an administrator at NYU Silver, NYU Stern School of Business, and is currently the Senior Director of Executive MBA Admissions at Cornell University's SC Johnson College of Business.
Meredith O'Boyle, MSW, LCSW
Adjunct Associate Professor
meredith.oboyle@nyu.edu
Meredith O’Boyle, LCSW is the Associate Director of Practicum Education Operations and an Adjunct Associate Professor. She teaches Practice I & II along with SIFI and Advisement. Her fields of practice include health, school-based settings, and disabilities across the lifespan. Areas of expertise include community-based settings and harm reduction practices.
Prior to joining the Department of Practicum Education and Community Partnerships, she was Vice President of Behavioral Health at Bailey House. Bailey House is one of the oldest AIDS services organizations in the country providing housing and support services to infected and affected clients. She was responsible for the buildout, start-up, and ongoing services in outpatient mental health and substance use clinics. As the Vice President, she was responsible for the financial and clinical management as well as quality assurance of all clinical services provided by the Center and ensured compliance with State regulations.
Ms. O’Boyle received her Master’s degree from New York University in 2003 and has worked with the Silver School of Social Work since 2006.
Dr. Helen O'Brien, MSW, PhD, LMSW (NY)
Adjunct Lecturer
ho213@nyu.edu
Helen G. O'Brien, Ph.D., LMSW, is a trauma focused clinical social worker and an Assistant Professor and Curriculum Chair at Westchester Community College in Valhalla, New York.
She graduated from Columbia University with a MSW in clinical social work and a Ph.D. from New York University.
Dr. O'Brien has conducted research on parenting including the influences of intergenerational transmission and trauma. Her post graduate training in International Trauma, Family Therapy, TF-CBT and PET inform her commitment to addressing the needs of children and families who have been impacted by trauma.
Joseph O'Callaghan, BA, MSW, LCSW
Adjunct Lecturer
jfo242@nyu.edu
Joseph O'Callaghan, LCSW, is the department chair for social work in the Stamford, Connecticut, Public Schools. He supervises a staff of 30 social workers and provides consultation and support to the school district around children's mental health, family engagement, therapeutic education, and crisis intervention, as well as developing programs to support the social and emotional needs of the students and their families in the school district. He also maintains a small private practice.
His areas of interest include: school social work, the collaboration between schools and mental health providers, race, ethnicity and power in schools, trauma-informed communities and schools, supervision, and the training of interns.
Joseph is also interested in spirituality and, in particular, how contemplative practice can be a protective factor for victims of violence.
He earned his MSW from Fordham University Graduate School of Social Work in 1991 and also received a diploma of advance studies in educational leadership in 2000.
Elizabeth Libby O'Connor, MSW, LCSW-R
Adjunct Lecturer
eof2@nyu.edu
Libby is a 1997 Graduate from NYU Silver School of Social Work where she continued work, study and advocacy around trauma, multiple loss and the impact of HIV on communities and their resources.
M. Kim O'Connor, MSW, LCSW-R (NY)
Adjunct Lecturer
mko232@nyu.edu
I am a clinical social worker and mindfulness educator in full-time private practice in Westchester County where I work with youth, adults, and families using a variety of therapeutic modalities including psychodynamic and cognitive-behavioral therapies. Before focusing on private practice full time, I worked across a variety of settings including hospitals, mental health centers, not-for-profits, and schools. I have a Master's in Social Work from the University of Maryland and an Advanced Certificate in Clinical Social Work from NYU. I also hold a certificate in Adult Psychotherapy from WCSPP, a certificate in Mindfulness and Psychotherapy from the Institute for Meditation and Psychotherapy, and a certificate in Parent Management Training from Yale Parenting Center. I am also certified to teach a variety of mindfulness curricula to youth and adults.
Dr. Denis O'Keefe, MSW, PhD, LCSW
Adjunct Assistant Professor
djo212@nyu.edu
Denis O’Keefe practices individual and family psychotherapy in Highland Falls, New York, at the Family Resource Center, where he is the clinical director. He is a consultant for the Orange County Department of Mental Health providing forensic mental health evaluations for the Orange County Family Court. He has extensive experience in the fields of child welfare and child mental health within the New York City and surrounding areas.
Dr. O’Keefe regularly teaches in the practice and policy areas at the Silver School of Social Work, including the courses Clinical Practice with Children and Social Welfare Policy and Programs. He has also taught Clinical Practice with Individuals and Families.
Dr. O’Keefe’s primary research interest is in the use of interdisciplinary approaches to study paradoxical social policy outcomes. His work seeks to integrate theories of individual and group behavior with classical models of social policy analysis to understand latent aspects of policy development, enactment, and implementation across a range of social justice issues.
He is the sitting president of the International Psychohistorical Association and active member in the Psychohistory Forum.
Dr. O’Keefe received his MSW and PhD from the NYU Silver School of Social Work.
Select Publications:
O’Keefe, D. (2019). Can having quality interactions with immigrants decrease anti-Immigrant sentiment? The moderation effects of contact on right wing authoritarianism, social dominance orientation and political affiliation. Manuscript submitted for publication.
O’Keefe, D. (2019). Quality or quantity: A relational re-conceptualization of the contact model and impact of quantity and quality of contact with immigrants on negative attitudes. Journal for the Advancement of Psychoanalytic Empirical Research.
O’Keefe, D. (2019). The immigrant other: Towards a psychohistorical social policy analysis. Paper presented at the 42nd Annual International Psychohistorical Association Convention, New York University, NY.
O’Keefe, D. (2018). The use of threat narratives to facilitate the displacement of childhood conflicts on to immigrants and their children. Paper presented at the Association for the Psychoanalysis of Culture & Society 2018 Annual Conference TRANSFORMATIONS: Disrupting Dystopian Futures, Rutgers University.
O’Keefe, D. (2018). Perception vs. Reality: Testing the viability of a psychohistorical interpretation of the group threat approach to negative attitudes toward immigrants and the role of ideological and personality traits in perception biases. Journal of Psychohistory, 46(3), 179-206.
Dr. Olatunde Olusesi, PhD, LCSW (NY)
Adjunct Associate Professor
oo231@nyu.edu
Olatunde Olusesi teaches Social Welfare Programs and Policies I and II at the Silver School of Social Work. He is also on the adjunct faculty of Stony Brook University's School of Social Welfare and Lehman College's Department of Social Work.
Dr. Olusesi retired from NYC's Administration for Children’s Services (ACS), where he worked in the areas of child protection, family preservation, advocacy, child evaluation, administration, program planning, staff training, and program evaluation, from 1992 to 2020. In addition to his several roles at ACS, Dr. Olusesi managed Project Stay, a social work internship program that he developed to train social work students to provide emotional support, advocacy, psycho-education, and other services to foster youth, especially those who were going missing from placement.
A community organizer, Dr. Olusesi is a co-founder of the Nigerian Social Workers Association of USA. Keenly interested in international social work, Dr. Olusesi once participated in the NYU Study Abroad Program in Ghana and in a CDC-sponsored capacity building project for social workers servicing children impacted by HIV/AIDS in Nigeria.
Dr. Olusesi is the President and CEO of Lorranisa Enterprises, a social enterprise he founded to address poverty in Nigeria through employment creation, micro loans, and capacity building for rural and urban dwellers.
Dr. Olusesi earned a BA (1st Class Honors) in English studies from Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria; an MSW from Stony Brook University; and a PhD in clinical social work from NYU Silver School of Social Work.
Hadiza Ladidi Osuji, MPA, PhD
Adjunct Assistant Professor
hlo1@nyu.edu
Dr. Osuji holds a PhD in Public Health from Walden University and a Master’s degree in Public Administration from Columbia University. She is presently the Executive Director of the African International Collaborative Center (AICC), a nonprofit organization focused on strengthening and improving the health and wellbeing of African immigrant families and communities. Dr. Osuji has worked as a research Assistant Professor at the McSilver Institute for Poverty Policy and Research located within NYU Silver School of Social Work. Previously, she was the Chief Program Officer and concurrently served as the Vice Chair of the McSilver Institute’s Community Collaborative Board (CCB), a formalized partnership between key stakeholders within New York City and university-based researchers charged with overseeing federally and locally funded research projects. Until 2018, she was a recipient of the National Institute of Minority Health Disparity (NIMHD) LRP grant award. Dr. Osuji has over ten years of research experience in mental health, child behavioral health, HIV/AIDS, community based participatory research, developing and implementing culturally relevant health promotion programs, with the African immigrants’ community as core target. Her strong research background is further reflected in the peer-reviewed articles that she has published through transdisciplinary collaborations and her numerous presentations at conferences.