Christina Belknap
Christina Belknap is a licensed social worker and doctoral student. Christina is a practicing clinician working primarily with adults, couples, and families in areas of substance use, mental health, and trauma. She is committed to improving outcomes for the treatment of substance use as well as contributing to the understanding of intersections with trauma, violence, and mental health. She is interested in international social work, stigmatized care, as well as the neurobiological aspects of addiction and behavior change. Read Christina's Biography
Briana Bogue
Briana is a trauma-informed, systemic, intersectional feminist therapist at Council for Relationships in Philadelphia PA. She works primarily with individuals and couples, incorporating trauma recovery through EMDR and emotion-focused modalities. Briana also teaches couples communication skills workshops and organizes wellness programs as Associate Director of Healthy Relationship and Wellness Programs at Council for Relationships. She also supervises students and Staff Therapists. Read Briana's Biography
Lauren Dennelly
Lauren Dennelly is a clinical social worker and doctoral student. She is an adjunct professor at Marywood University-Pocono Campus in their MSW program where she has taught courses in foundational social work methods as well as trauma, and works as a behavioral health specialist in an integrated mental health and primary care office as part of a multidisciplinary treatment team. Read Lauren's Biography
John Edwards
John Edwards is a clinical social worker and doctoral student. He graduated with an MSS from Bryn Mawr Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research, and John later returned to Bryn Mawr as a Lecturer, teaching a class in advocacy and negotiation for students enrolled in the Law and Social Policy program. Read John's Biography
Maisy Hughes
Maisy Hughes received her M.S. in Couple and Family Therapy from Thomas Jefferson University, and is a practicing therapist in Philadelphia. She works at the Joseph J. Peters Institute where she sees trauma survivors of all ages, many of whom have endured the effects of chronic intrafamilial trauma, poverty and marginalization. Maisy also works at Council for Relationships where she sees individuals and couples with a range of presenting challenges. She specializes in treating post-traumatic stress sequelae and is committed to providing services from a humanistic, client-focused perspective. Her research interests center around understanding what effective treatment looks like for chronically traumatized individuals. Read Maisy's Biography
Sangeun Lee
Sangeun has been assisting the immigrant population with limited English proficiency through three community-based nonprofit agencies in the Greater Philadelphia area since 2008. She worked as an in-house interpreter, a state-certified marketplace navigator under the ACA, a community coordinator, and a social worker. Sangeun also has experience in managing community development programs among long term care waiver recipients like seniors and individuals with disabilities. Sangeun received her MSW in macro concentration from the University of Pennsylvania in May 2018. She has interests in diverse issues regarding immigrants’ adequate health care access and initiated research on the relationship between immigrants’ legal path and their health care access, charity care programs of Philadelphia-based hospitals, and surprise medical bills under the ACA. Furthermore, Sangeun has been working with applicants of the Medical Assistance and Home and Community Based Services for their Appeal and Hearing of denial cases with the Department of Human Services of Pennsylvania. Read Sangeun's Biography
Megan McCoy
Megan C. McCoy’s social work career spans 20+ years including 18 years with Center in the Park (CIP), a nationally accredited senior center in Philadelphia where she has served as Director of Grant Research & Development since 2007. Megan is also an adjunct instructor with Widener University’s online MSW program where she teaches Social and Economic Justice I & II, and Methods of Social Work Research. Through her role at CIP, Megan engages as a team member in development, implementation, and dissemination of academic-community based research collaborations ranging from a recent exploratory focus group study to better understand the impact of the opioid crisis on older adults, to serving as project manager for CIP’s role in a 6-year NIMH funded RCT testing a depression intervention for homebound African American elders lead by Thomas Jefferson University and Johns Hopkins University. Megan is also committed to program development and community service supporting LGBTQ older adults, and currently serves on SAGE-Metro Portland’s Advisory Committee. Megan holds Masters degrees in Social Service and Law & Social Policy from Bryn Mawr College, and a BA in English from Temple University. She is a recent recipient of the Rivitz Award for outstanding dissertation proposal. Read Megan's Biography
Carmen Moedano
Carmen Moedano is a licensed clinical social worker and a practicing staff clinician at the University of Pennsylvania’s Counseling & Psychological Services. She has extensive experience working with diverse populations in a variety of clinical settings that include community behavioral health, hospital inpatient and outpatient care, and private practice. Carmen received her master’s degree in clinical social work from the University of Pennsylvania and her bachelor’s degree in Psychology and Community Health from Brown University. She received additional training through the National Group Psychotherapy Institute at the Washington School of Psychiatry. Read Carmen's Biography
Lauren Montemuro-Rode
Lauren Montemuro-Rode received her MSW with a Gerontology concentration in 2013 from Washington University in St. Louis.has extensive clinical experience related to aging, medical, and hospice care. While working towards her Ph.D. at Bryn Mawr College, she has taught and assisted teaching the Research Methods courses. She is interested in expanding research on advance care planning for her dissertation research. Read Lauren's Biography
Jenifer Norton
Jenifer Norton's teaching experience encompasses graduate-level writing, research, data analysis, social policy, and social welfare history. She currently serves as Widener University's Online MSW Program Director. Read Jenifer's Biography
Lindsey Norton
Lindsey received her Masters of Social Service and Masters of Law and Social Policy from Bryn Mawr’s Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research. She has spent the last five years doing clinical research at the University of Pennsylvania and the Penn Center for Community Health Workers. Read Lindsey's Biography
Kate Roberts
Kate Roberts is a licensed clinical social worker who holds experience working in community mental health. As an intensively trained Dialectical Behavioral Therapist (DBT), she worked with persons experiencing chronic suicidality, religious trauma, and co-occurring substance use and mental health disorders in the LGBTQ+ community. Read Kate's Biography
Lori Sitler
Lori Sitler is an assistant professor in the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences at Wilmington University. Her research interests are in the use and functioning of multi-disciplinary teams for the investigation of child abuse and children exposed to violence. Read Lori's Biography
Sarah Slates
Sarah is currently a teaching and research assistant as well as a social sciences research mentor for the Hanna Holborn Gray Fellowship program. As a teaching assistant, she provides guidance and instruction for MSS students in research design and quantitative and qualitative methods. Her recent work as a research assistant includes a focus on macro social work practice and microaggressions in the social work classroom. Read Sarah's Biography
Carolyn Solo
Carolyn worked at the Wedge, a community mental health agency in Philadelphia, as a therapist for three years, including one year as a supervisor of graduate student interns. Carolyn's primary research interests include the history and medicalization of schizophrenia, supervision and clinician development in community mental health settings, and the efficacy and impact of peer support for people with severe and chronic mental illness. Read Carolyn's Biography
Amy E. Stein
As a clinical therapist, Amy E. Stein has provided individual, group, family and couples therapy and is trained in cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) and psychodynamic therapy with an emphasis on mindfulness meditation, Buddhist psychology, nature, art and therapeutic writing. She is currently an adjunct faculty professor at West Chester University in the undergraduate social work department. Read Amy's Biography