Our M.S.W. program is taught by an expert and diverse group of resident and adjunct faculty who come to campus from across the country and around the world to contribute their expertise. The unique structure of the School's academic calendar makes it possible for many clinicians who work in the social work profession or other universities during the traditional academic year to join the Smith community from June through August
Katya Cerar, M.S.W., Ph.D, LICSW
Senior Director of Practicum Learning
Katya Cerar, is the senior director of Practicum Education at Smith College and has taught and supervised students from various New England schools of social…
Traneika Turner-Wentt, M.S.W., D.S.W.
Adjunct Assistant Professor | Practicum Faculty Adviser | Associate Chair of the Practice Sequence
Dr. Traneika Turner-Wentt, is a mental wellness clinician and spiritual counselor with two decades of experience in hospital and mental healthcare. She manages…
Rose Marie Äikäs, M.S.W., M.A., Ph.D.
Adjunct Professor
Rose Marie Äikäs is a professor at CUNY-Queensborough Community College, where she teaches courses in criminal justice and social work. Her current research…
Anderson Al Wazni, M.S.W., Ph.D. Student
Adjunct Associate Professor
Anderson (Andy) Al Wazni is a 2014 graduate of the Smith College SSW M.S.W. program and current doctoral student in social work at the University of North…
Rebecca Anthony, M.S.W., Ph.D.
Adjunct Associate Professor
Becky Anthony is an associate professor and the undergraduate program director in the School of Social Work at Salisbury University. In this position, she…
Catherine Balletto, M.S.W., Ph.D.
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Catherine Balletto, M.S.W., Ph.D., earned her B.F.A. from the School of Visual Arts in New York City. Starting off as an art therapist, she established a…
Reina Batrony, M.A., LMHC
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Reina Batrony is an experienced multilingual vice president of services with a demonstrated history of working in the non-profit organization management…
Joanna Beltrán Girón, M.A., M. Phil., Ph.D. candidate
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Joanna Beltrán Girón (Professor J, she/they) is an anti-imperialist Salvadoran queer poet, feminista comunitaria, organizer, activist, educator and researcher…
Neil Bilotta, M.S.W., M.H.S., Ph.D.
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Neil Bilotta is a social worker and researcher focusing on two independent and intersecting phenomena: (a) deconstructing racism/white supremacy in social work…
Sara Brackenbury, M.S.W., L.C.S.W.
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Sara Brackenbury works with adolescents and adults in private practice in Pennsylvania, with offices in Philadelphia and the Lehigh Valley. Her practice is…
Stephen J. Bradley, M.Ed., M.S.W., LICSW, LMHC
Adjunct Professor | Practicum Faculty Adviser | Practicum Seminar Instructor
Stephen (he/him) received his M.Ed. in counseling from Umass Amherst in 1992 and his M.S.W. from Smith College SSW in 2002. After working as an Outward Bound…
Chelsey Branham, M.A.
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Chelsey Branham (she/they, Chickasaw/Cherokee/Pawnee) is the owner and CEO of One Whole Village Consulting, LLC. She specializes in transformational equity in…
Maria del Pilar Bratko, MFT, Ph.D.
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Maria Pilar Bratko has been in practice for 18 years serving a wide range of clients. She has held a number of administrative roles at Bay Area training clinics…
Natasha Campbell, BSW, M.S.W., LICSW
Adjunct Associate Professor
For over 17 years Natasha Campbell has supported a space for individuals to grow through the challenges of life, face their traumas, rebuild families and…
Davis Chandler, M.S.W. '11, LICSW
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Davis Chandler (they/them) was clinically trained at Smith SSW and graduated in 2011. They have worked in a community mental health setting with children…
Julie Clockston, M.S.W, D.S.W., LCSW
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Julie Clockston is an LCSW and assistant professor in the department of social work at the Metropolitan State University of Denver, in the B.S.S.W. and M.S.W…
Mamta Dadlani, M.S., Ph.D.
Adjunct Professor
Dr. Mamta Dadlani is a licensed clinical psychologist who engages in clinical practice, consultation, training and scholarship through a lens of critical social…
Jamie D. Daniels, M.S.W., Ph.D. candidate
Adjunct Associate Professor
Jamie Daniels is a licensed independent clinical social worker and psychotherapist. She is a graduate of Smith’s M.S.W. program and is currently a Ph.D…
Maureen Dean, M.S.W., M.Div., Ph.D. Candidate
Adjunct Assistant Professor
A direct descendent of a traditional healer, Dean has evolved a multidisciplinary healing elixir from her study of depth psychology, theology, anthropology, and…
Cindy Dubuque-Gallo, LMSW, MAT, Ph.D. candidate
Adjunct Professor
Cindy Dubuque-Gallo is a long-time social justice advocate and political activist. She has served on numerous boards and commissions including the San Francisco…
Maria del Mar Farina de Parada, M.S.W., Ph.D.
Adjunct Professor
Maria del Mar Farina earned both her M.S.W. and her doctorate at the Smith College School for Social Work. She is currently an assistant professor in the M.S.W…
Steve Friedman, M.S.W., Ph.D. candidate, LCSW
Adjunct Associate Professor | Practicum Faculty Adviser
Stephen Friedman received his M.S.W. at Smith SSW in 1987. He completed his psychoanalytic training at the William Alanson White Institute (WAWI) in New York…
Averi Gaines, M.S., Ph.D. candidate
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Averi N. Gaines received her M.S. in clinical psychology from the University of Massachusetts Amherst (UMass). Prior to beginning graduate school, she worked as…
John S. Gill, M.S.W. '07
Adjunct Associate Professor
John Gill is the chief operating officer of Beats Rhymes and Life in Oakland, California, an organization, developed by Smith College School for Social Work…
Paul Gitterman, M.S.W., M.Sc., LICSW, CGP
Adjunct Professor
Paul Gitterman has been associated with the Smith College School for Social Work since the early 1990s, first as an M.S.W. student, and then as a clinical…
Monifa Groover, M.S.W., M.P.A.
Adjunct Professor
Throughout her professional career, Monifa Groover has served in a variety of clinical settings, including but not limited to working with military personnel…
Greer Hamilton, M.S.W., Ph.D.
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Greer Hamilton, M.S.W., Ph.D., is a place-based researcher who examines how systems of oppression are embedded into the built environment and subsequently…
Huey Hawkins, M.S.W., Ph.D., LCSW
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Huey Hawkins, Jr. is a psychodynamic psychotherapist in private practice. He earned his doctorate degree in clinical social work from the Institute for Clinical…
Ethan Haymovitz, D.S.W.
Adjunct Assistant Professor
As a social worker concerned with social, economic, and racial justice; as an admitted data viz geek who can perseverate for hours on the finest details of a…
Andrew P. Hoang, M.S.W., Ph.D.
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Andrew Hoang is senior lecturer and programme director of the Bachelor of Arts and Sciences Programme at the University of Hong Kong. He is also senior tutor…
Andres Hoyos, M.S., M.S.W., LCSW
Adjunct Assistant Professor | Practicum Faculty Adviser | Seminar Instructor
Andrés Hoyos brings over two decades of clinical and administrative experience in the fields of mental health and social services working in private, public and…
Debra Hull, M.A., Ph.D.
Adjunct Professor
Debra Hull began teaching research methods at Smith College SSW in the summer of 2013, and has been doing so ever since. During the school year she is professor…
Leah Jikurashvili, B.S.W., M.S.W.
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Leah Jikurashvili is a senior social worker and a psychodynamic psychotherapist specializing in transgender mental health, transgender aging, kink-aware sex…
Liz Joyce, M.S.W., LICSW
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Liz Joyce is a clinical social worker who has worked in schools for over fifteen years. Joyce earned a B.S. in human development and family studies from the…
Michelle Marchese, M.S.W., Ph.D. candidate
Adjunct Assistant Professor | Professional Education Instructor
Michelle M. Marchese is a licensed independent clinical social worker and certified trauma therapist. They are a graduate of Smith’s M.S.W. program and a…
Marvice D. Marcus, Ph.D., LP, HSP-P
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Dr. Marcus is an independent licensed psychologist in Durham, NC. He earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees, both in psychology, from the University of Nevada…
Jackson Montañez Matos, M.A.T., Ed.D.
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Jackson Matos holds a master of arts in teaching from Smith College, MA State Licensure as a 5-12 ELA teacher, and a doctorate in education from the University…
Patricia Finn McManamy, M.S.W., LICSW
Adjunct Professor
Patricia Finn McManamy teaches the HBSE course Child Development From an Integrative Perspective: Theory and Practice for Clinical Social Work. She has taught…
Lujuana Milton, M.S.W., LICSW
Adjunct Professor | Practicum Seminar Instructor
Lujuana Milton is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker (LICSW). She graduated with a B.A. and a M.S.W. degree from Boston College. With over 15 years…
Tamarah Moss, M.S.W., M.P.H., Ph.D.
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Tamarah Moss is an assistant professor at the Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research at Bryn Mawr College. Her main research interests are threefold…
Arden O’Donnell, MPH, M.S.W., LICSW, APHSW-C, Ph.D. candidate
Adjunct Professor | Practicum Faculty Adviser | Professional Education Instructor
Arden O’Donnell is an alum of the Smith College School for Social Work M.S.W. program and a current doctoral student at Boston University. She is a palliative…
Este Orantes Migoya, M.A., Ph.D. student
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Este (they/them) comes from a lineage of strong and resilient women and is the youngest of three siblings. Born in Ixim Ulew (Guatemala), they and their family…
Janae Peters, M.S.W., LMSW
Adjunct Assistant Professor | Practicum Faculty Adviser | Practicum Seminar Instructor and Sotomayor Fellow
An alum of the Smith School for Social Work, Peters graduated from the M.S.W. program in 2015. Her goal has been to integrate her social work experience with…
Malcolm Pradia, M.S.W. '13, LICSW
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Malcolm Pradia is a clinical social worker at the Center for Counseling and Psychological Health at his alma mater, the University of Massachusetts Amherst…
Beth Prullage, M.S.W. '01, LICSW
Adjunct Professor | Practicum Faculty Adviser | Practicum Seminar Instructor
Beth Prullage works at the University of Massachusetts Amherst at the Center for Counseling and Psychological Health as a psychiatric social worker and co…
Alexandra Klein Rafaeli, M.A., Psy.D.
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Alexandra Klein Rafaeli is the coordinator of short-term, empirically supported treatments for the Psychological Services Division of Tel Aviv University. She…
Cristian Rangel, M.A., Ph.D. candidate
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Cristian Rangel is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Sociology at the University of Toronto. His scholarly interests include medical education, HIV/AIDS…
Julieann Rapoport, M.Ed.
Adjunct Associate Professor
Julieann Rapoport has found her vocation at the cross-section of education, social change and the social sector. For more than 30 years, Rapoport has worked…
Shari Lynn Robinson, M.S.W., M.A.
Adjunct Professor
Shari L. Robinson (Professor Shari) is both a social worker and a linguistic anthropologist. She has nearly two decades of professional and clinical practice…
Silvia Sandoval, M.S.W., Ph.D.
Adjunct Associate Professor | Practicum Faculty Adviser
Silvia Sandoval has been in practice for 20 years serving marginalized communities and populations. They are currently the director of behavioral health and…
Shalini Schaeffer, M.S.W., LCSW
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Shalini Schaeffer has been working with families and children for the past 22 years of her professional tenure. Her heart beats for this work as she swims in…
Shannon L. Sennott, M.S.W. '08, LICSW, CST
Adjunct Associate Professor
Shannon Sennott, a sex educator, gender justice activist, and LGBTQAI+ family therapist, earned her M.S.W. at the Smith College School for Social Work in 2008…
Davey Shlasko, M.S.W., M.Ed.
Adjunct Associate Professor
Davey Shlasko is the founder and director of Think Again Training & Consulting, a small consulting group that helps organizations address issues of justice…
Emily Sherwood, B.A., M.P.A.
Adjunct Associate Professor
Emily Sherwood has worked in healthcare and human services policy and program development for over 35 years. Her most recent role was deputy commissioner for…
LaTasha Smith, Ph.D., LCSW, CGP
Adjunct Associate Professor | Practicum Seminar Instructor
LaTasha Smith is a professor in the M.S.W. program at Fairfield University where she teaches social justice, assessment and fieldwork. She has also taught…
Rhoda Smith, M.S.W.
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Rhoda Smith is a doctoral candidate in social policy and social research at Loma Linda University as well as the Smith College School for Social Work’s 2016…
Stefanie L. Speanburg, M.S.W., Ph.D., LCSW
Adjunct Professor
After graduating from the Smith College School for Social Work M.S.W. program, Stefanie Speanburg went on to earn a doctorate in women’s, gender and sexuality…
Ruth E. Spencer, J.D., M.S.S.A.., LISW
Adjunct Professor
Ruth Spencer is an adjunct professor with a long history with SSW. She teaches courses that address the intersection of law and social work practice. She…
Amanda Sposato, M.S.W. '16, LICSW
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Amanda Sposato, LICSW is a clinical supervisor in community mental health and a relational psychodynamic psychotherapist in private practice. In the CMH setting…
Alison Sutton-Ryan, M.S.W. '98, D.B.H., LCSW, LISAC
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Alison Sutton-Ryan is a clinical assistant professor in social work at Salisbury University. She has over 25 years clinical psychotherapy experience in a…
Tanita Teagle, M.S.W. '99, LCSW
Adjunct Assistant Professor | Practicum Faculty Adviser
Tanita Cox Teagle is a 1999 graduate of the Smith College SSW M.S.W. program. She currently serves as a practicum faculty advisor for the M.S.W. program. Teagle…
Kurt White, M.S.W., LICSW, LADC, MAC
Adjunct Professor
Kurt L. White is the vice president of Outpatient services at the Brattleboro Retreat, a private non-profit psychiatric hospital founded in 1834. He is a…
Di Yoong, M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D. candidate
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Di Yoong is currently a Ph.D. candidate at The Graduate Center (CUNY). Broadly, they are interested in how identities move beyond just representations, and how…