Fall 2024
Christian's scholarly pursuits examine how the social work profession often perpetuates the very injustice and inequity it rhetorically opposes, primarily through its reliance on the pedagogy of unpaid internships.
Fall 2024
Chioma Chinwokwu-Njemanze is currently a PhD student in the School of Social Work, UTA. Chioma’s research interest is in homelessness, gender issues, social policy, and cultural studies.
Fall 2024
Christie earned her BSW ('07) and MSW ('09) from UT Arlington and is dedicated to strengthening support systems for professionals in helping fields, ensuring that leaders driven to serve others in emotionally demanding roles have the sustainable resources and tools they need to thrive as they face some of humanity's most challenging issues.
Fall 2024
Tom is a military clinical social worker and PhD Student at UTA. His research interest is in virtual reality, looking at how VR intersects with mental health treatment modalities to improve treatment outcomes.
Fall 2024
Tasha Pelletier is a PhD student in Social Work at the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA). She holds a Master of Social Work from UTA, with a concentration in Mental Health and Substance Use, and a Bachelor of Social Work from the University of Regina.
Fall 2024
Ana Ponciano, LMSW, earned her bachelor's and master's degrees in social work from The University of Texas at Arlington. She is committed to developing programs that support first-generation students and exploring how mental health impacts family dynamics within Indigenous communities.
Fall 2024
Rachel earned her MSW from the University of Texas at Arlington focusing on substance abuse and mental health. She hopes to continue her research in mental health, emergency room utilization and cognitive responses to crises and traumatic situations.
Fall 2024
Benjamin Sesay, MSW, MBA, MSc., BSc. (Hons), is a PhD student in the School of Social Work at the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA) with diverse backgrounds.
Fall 2024
Chenyu earned her BSW from the University of Texas at Austin and her MSW from Washington University in St. Louis. Her research interests focus on mindfulness interventions within schools and correctional facilities.
Fall 2023
I earned my Master of Social Work specializing in Women Centered Practice from Tata Institute of Social Sciences, and my research interests include accessibility to reproductive healthcare and implementation of healthcare policies in South Asia.
Fall 2023
Is a PhD student at the University of Texas at Arlington, who is focused on sex education for Latinas.
Fall 2023
Angela’s research interests focus on Black education, adverse childhood experiences, mental health, education inequalities, curriculum development and promoting Black excellence.
Fall 2023
Swasati’s (she/her) research interests include older adults in palliative/end-of-life/hospice care or anyone undergoing life-limiting or chronic illnesses.
Fall 2023
Interested in Social determinants of health and Gerontology, the associations between neighborhood social environment and older adults with dementia.
Fall 2023
Christina’s research interests merge with the field of epigenetics researching the connection between the gut micro-biome, mental health, and disease during pregnancy to determine the effectiveness of nutritional and environmental therapies.
Fall 2023
I received my BSW and MSW at Stephen F. Austin State University.
Fall 2022
Earned her MSW from Texas A&M with a focus on Veterans/Military Health and Child Foster Child Maltreatment.
Fall 2022
Esmeralda J. Rubalcava Hernandez, LMSW (she/her/ella) is a Xicana bilingual/bicultural community organizer, social worker, and PhD candidate at the University of Texas at Arlington who focuses on anti-colonial racial studies at the intersection of policing and immigration systems and anti-oppressive social work pedagogy.
Fall 2021
She is interested in understanding the inequities of mental health and wellness access for people of color through the lens of racial equity and justice.
Fall 2021
Her doctoral research uses a mixed-methods approach and is focused on unmet family-planning needs of low-income and immigrant populations in the United States, examining the role of health literacy interventions in healthcare access.
Fall 2021
Earned his MSW from Brigham Young University and conducts research on mental health and substance misuse disorders.
Fall 2021
Megan’s research focus is access to intimate partner and sexual violence prevention and healing services for individuals with intellectual and/or developmental disabilities (IDD), and how such access impacts victimization.
Fall 2020
Her research examines the impact of historical and current U.S. workforce policies on disparities in economic outcomes (retirement, savings, and generational wealth transfers) between Americans comparing gender, race, income and martial and parenting statuses.
Fall 2020
Her research interests include treatment retention issues in psychiatric settings, social determinants of health and mental health, community-engaged research, cultural disparities and their influence on substance abuse and addiction, and cross-cultural factors among ethnic minority groups, as well as international social work.
Fall 2019
"Steven's research interests include recidivism in prisons, dual diagnoses with PTSD and substance abuse, hospital readmission prevention, domestic violence prevention, military family reunification, suicide prevention, and aging disability services."
