Erin Baer, M.S.W., LCSW

Erin Baer is a licensed clinical social worker who holds an M.S.W. from Fordham University and a B.A. from NYU. Currently, she is a professor at Bank Street College of Education, Fordham University’s Graduate School of Social Service and Brooklyn College. In this capacity, she teaches social justice, organizational psychology, family therapy, lifespan development, counseling skills/techniques and other topics. Baer has supported, mentored and trained hundreds of new social workers as they entered the field and provided professional development on school violence prevention, motivational interviewing, youth mental health counseling and other topics. She has worked extensively with schools and young people. She has taught all GED subjects to young adults, developed and implemented mentoring programs at multiple CBOs and launched a satellite mental health clinic at an elementary school in NYC. Baer has also worked to change school sexual harassment policies with Girls for Gender Equity. During and before her time as a social worker, she maintained a focus on social justice as an activist. This included a position as Public Information Officer at Lambda Legal where she worked on pivotal LGBTQ issues (marriage equality, justice for prisoners living with HIV, transgender workplace discrimination, etc). Her postgraduate education includes two years of study with The Stephen Mitchell Relational Study Center, in-depth training on motivational interviewing (MI), therapeutic crisis intervention, and mental health first aid. As part of her ongoing activism, she is involved in a Black Lives Matter to White Therapists collective.