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Faculty & Staff

Deirdre Lanesskog, PhD, MPA

Director / Associate Professor

DLanesskog

Interests: Human service organizations & administration, human services work with immigrant clients, macro social work practice, immigration & social welfare policy, qualitative human services research

Armando Barragán, PhD, MSW

Associate Director / Associate Professor

ABaragan

Interests: Latino mental health, serious mental illnesses, treatment utilization and help-seeking, ethnic minority mental health disparities, and psychiatric epidemiology

Faculty

Thomas D. Davis, PhD, 

Professor
TDavis

Interests: Substance abuse treatment, macro social work practice, research methods, and healthcare among Native Americans.

Yawen Li, PhD, MSW

Professor
YLi

Interests: Social determinants of health and health behaviors, Self-management of chronic illness, home and community based long-term care services, minority older adults

Laurie A. Smith, PhD

Professor

Laurie Smith

Interests: AIDS prevention and services, foster youth, technology in teaching, service learning.

Carolyn McAllister, PhD, MSW

Professor

Carolyn McAllister

Interests: Social work practice with individuals with disabilities and their support systems, integrating disability content into social work education, transition issues for adolescents with disabilities and their families, and teaching with technology, alternate forms of instruction.

Nicole L. Arkadie, EdD, LCSW, PPSC

Assistant Professor

Interests: Mental Health, positive and negative emotional responses in clinical practitioners with focus on preventative interventions. Factors that impact maternal wellness

Rigaud Joseph, PhD

Associate Professor

RigaudJ

Interests: Poverty and social welfare policies, economic self-sufficiency among low-income families, evaluation of program effectiveness, children and youth well-being, theory and scale development, empowerment practice, and social advocacy.

Caroline Lim, PhD, MSW

Assistant Professor
CLim

Interests: Clinical outcomes of schizophrenia; ethnic and racial disparities in mental health service use and outcomes; early intervention and prevention of schizophrenia and other psychoses; psychosis risk in vulnerable populations; quantitative research

Emily Loveland, PhD, MSW

Assistant Professor
ELoveland

Interests: Food insecurity, poverty, human rights, social welfare policy, qualitative research methods 

 Herbert Shon, PhD, LCSW

Assistant Professor
herbshon

Interests: Developing strategies that reduce barriers to accessing services among hard-to-reach populations, integrating technology into social work courses, caregiving and Alzheimer's disease.

Rachel Allinson, MSW, LCSW

Director of Practicum Education
RAllinson

Interests: Social work education, supervision of pre-licensed social workers and students, forensic issues, severe and persistent mental illness, discharge planning and community integration, and micro practice.

Shyra Harris, MSW, LCSW

Associate Practicum Director & Pathway Practicum Coordinator
SHarris

Interests: High risk child welfare and juvenile probation, forensic issues, severe and persistent mental illness, discharge planning and community integration, medical social work, social work education, community collaboration, and micro practice.

Faye Johnson, MSW

Full-time Lecturer

Faye Johnson

Interests: Child Welfare, including family and community engagement, policy development, and workforce education, training and mentoring. 

Nick Watson MSW

Full-time Lecturer
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Interests: Child welfare, high risk youth, health policy and substance abuse.

Frank McAlpin, MSW

Full-time Lecturer
Frank McAlpin

Interests: Grassroots social work practice, social welfare policy, housing & homelessness,  trauma-informed practice, youth services & development, LGBTQ, anti-oppressive and social justice practice.

 

Part-time Lecturer

CSUSb PlaceholderAlejandro Reyes

Lecturer
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CSUSb Placeholder Alesha Marshall

Lecturer
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CSUSb PlaceholderAlicia Harris

Lecturer
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CSUSb PlaceholderAmanda Smith

Lecturer
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CSUSb PlaceholderAndrew Godoy

Lecturer
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CSUSb Placeholder Angel Agudo

Lecturer
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CSUSb PlaceholderAnn Skenderian

Lecturer
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CSUSb PlaceholderAriel Macon-Richard

Lecturer
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CSUSb PlaceholderChiana Ghant

Lecturer
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CSUSb Placeholder Gus Fierro

Lecturer
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CSUSb PlaceholderHeather Sylvester

Lecturer
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CSUSb Placeholder Jeannine Meza

Lecturer
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CSUSb PlaceholderJennifer Nakamura

Lecturer
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CSUSb PlaceholderJosefina Sierra

Lecturer
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CSUSb PlaceholderKathy Turnbull

Lecturer
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CSUSb Placeholder Kevin Anderson

Lecturer
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CSUSb PlaceholderKurt Manio

Lecturer
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CSUSb PlaceholderLinda Revoner

Lecturer
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CSUSb PlaceholderLisa Hecker

Lecturer
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CSUSb PlaceholderNicholas Perez

Lecturer
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CSUSb PlaceholderPeter Caro

Lecturer
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CSUSb Placeholder Rachel Estrada

Lecturer
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CSUSb Placeholder Riba Eshanzada

Lecturer
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CSUSb PlaceholderRobert Harris

Lecturer
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CSUSb PlaceholderSandy Melancon

Lecturer
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CSUSb PlaceholderTiffany Young

Lecturer
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Administrative Staff

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Administrative Assistant
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CSUSb PlaceholderVictoria Sanchez

Administrative Assistant
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CSUSb PlaceholderPaola Serrano-Montes

Administrative Assistant
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CSUSb PlaceholderJordyn Ybarra

Administrative Assistant
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CSUSb PlaceholderJanelle Gonzales

Administrative Support Assistant
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CSUSb PlaceholderAngela Garcia

Administrative Support Coordinator - II
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CSUSb PlaceholderJake Vargas

Business Manager
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CSUSb PlaceholderMike Edwards, MSW

Child Welfare Outreach Specialist / Practicum Support
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CSUSb PlaceholderSadania Gibbons, LCSW

Child Welfare Outreach Specialist / Practicum Support
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CSUSb PlaceholderMelinda Corral, MSW

Child Welfare Outreach Specialist / Recruitment and Admissions
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CSUSb PlaceholderStephanie Schneider, PhD, MSW

Grants Support Director
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CSUSb PlaceholderZoila Covarrubias, MBA

Grants Support Fiscal Manager
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CSUSb PlaceholderPeter Nguyen

Information Technology Consultant
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