UW School of Social Work

4101 15th Avenue NE
Seattle, WA 98105-6299

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Main Phone: 206-543-5640
Fax: 206-543-1228

Jane J. Lee

Jane J. Lee


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Jane Lee’s program of research focuses on reducing health disparities among racial and ethnic minority immigrant populations. She studies the unique role of migration-related processes in shaping health behaviors and identifies novel approaches to reach and engage immigrant groups. Her work explores questions of how, and why, migration-related processes affect communities unequally and is attentive to the interplay of multilevel factors that influence access to health services within and across diverse societies.

Danae G. Dotolo

Danae G. Dotolo


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Danae Dotolo received her PhD in 2017 from the UW School of Social Work. She earned an MA in bioethics in 2014 from the UW School of Medicine and an MSW from Arizona State University.

Her research and teaching integrate her training in social work and bioethics with her policy and administrative social work practice experience. She has taught classes in social welfare policy; mezzo/macro practice; and the history and intellectual foundations of the social work profession. She also regularly lectures on ethics, research methods and theory.

Angelique Day

Angelique Day


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Angelique Day received her PhD in interdisciplinary health science in 2011 from Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo. She earned an MSW from Michigan State University in 2005 and a BS summa cum laude in sociology/psychology from Central Michigan University.

Much of her research focuses on foster care youth, including examining the differences in college retention rates between foster care youth and other low-income first-generation college students, and examining “youth voice” and its impact on child welfare, education and health policy reform.

Val Kalei Kanuha

Val Kalei Kanuha


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Valli Kalei Kanuha was born and raised in a rural town in Hawaiʻi in the 1950s. She is the daughter of a Native Hawaiian father and Nisei mother. Dr. Kanuha considers herself a critical, indigenous, feminist, activist-practitioner scholar with a focus on gender violence against women and children, and the intersection of race/ethnicity and gender and sexual identity. For the past 45 years, she has worked as a community-based researcher and consultant with organizations in Hawaiʻi and the continental U.S., and lectures widely on violence against women and social justice issues.

Rachel Wrenn

Rachel Wrenn


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Dr. Wrenn has been a member of the School of Social Work field faculty and was director of the field education program from 1995 to1999. In 2020, she was appointed the assistant dean of field education after serving as the interim assistant dean since 2019. 

As a 1987 graduate of the doctoral program in social welfare from the School of Social Work, her research interests focused on the influence of social support on health-promoting behaviors during pregnancy. 

Khalfani Mwamba

Khalfani Mwamba


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Constellation: Leo
Favorite Color: Royal Blue
Favorite Place: Any Sea-side
Favorite Food: Shrimp Scampi
Favorite Song: “Think” (Aretha Franklin)
Favorite Food: Shrimp Scampi
Favorite Book: “The Healing Drum” (Yaya Diallo)

Ariana Cantu

Ariana Cantu


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Ariana Cantu's 26-year career spans migration and border issues, health care, housing, direct service, mental health, community organizing, advocacy, environmental justice and restoration, racial and social justice, and education. Both her community and applied research interests are in spatial justice, community-led efforts, and strategizing for transformative change from an asset vs. deficit lens.