Brianna Suslovic, M.S.W. '18, LSW (Illinois)

Brianna Suslovic is a Ph.D. candidate in social work at the University of Chicago's Crown Family School. She is a 2018 graduate of Smith's M.S.W. program and she also has a bachelor's degree from Harvard College. Suslovic studies social work, prisons, jails, courts, and policing. She organizes with Social Work for Palestine and the Network to Advance Abolitionist Social Work. Prior to starting her Ph.D., Suslovic worked in New York City as a mitigation specialist and clinician for a public defender's office and a forensic mental health clinic. Her Smith internship experiences exposed her to adult inpatient and outpatient psychiatry. She is on the board of the APA's Division 39 and Section IX, and she continues to teach and consult with psychoanalytic institutes across the country. In her spare time, she teaches in Illinois jails and prisons, facilitates yoga classes in her neighborhood and teaches social work students at UChicago.