Karina Walters, M.S.W., Ph.D., professor at University of Washington School of Social Work, delivered the 2018 Brown Foundation Research Lecture, Embodiment of Historical Trauma and Micro-aggression Distress: Lessons from 10 years of research with American Indians and Alaska Natives.Walters has more than 20 years of experience in social epidemiological research on the historical, social and cultural determinants of health among AIAN populations. Before her talk she sat down for an interview about her work, and how her findings can be useful for social workers treating all types of populations.
Watch: Karina Walters video series
Dawn Belkin Martinez, Ph.D., LICSW, delivered the 2018 Lydia Rapoport Anti-Racism Lecture, Clinical Social Work in the Age of Neoliberalism: “Staying Woke” and a Path Forward for Clinical Practice. Martinez is a Clinical Associate Professor at the Boston University School of Social Work and was formerly an instructor in psychiatry at the Harvard Medical School.
Trained as a family therapist, Martinez worked as the senior social worker on the Inpatient Psychiatry Service at Children’s Hospital Boston for 13 years and is the co-author of the book Social Justice in Clinical Practice: A Liberation Health Framework for Social Work. Martinez is one of the founding members of the Boston Liberation Health Group and gives presentations locally, nationally, and internationally about her work with Latino youth, immigrant families, liberation health theory and practice, and social justice.
Watch: Dawn Belkin Martinez video series