Associate Professor Tessa Evans-Campbell serves as the School's associate dean for academic affairs. She completed her BA in art history at the University of Washington and her MSW at the University of California Los Angeles. Her research interests focus on historical trauma, resistance and healing; cultural buffers of trauma; substance use and mental health; and indigenous family wellness. She is the former director of the School's MSW program. 

Harper works with the WCPC Social Policy Research Fellows to find and develop their research placements, authors written products including the Poverty Flash Series and the Dialogues on Research and Policy, and helps organize the WCPC Roundtables. Prior to joining the WCPC, Shannon worked in Washington, D.C. and Oakland, California, doing research on the effects of welfare reform at the state and national levels.

Stacey De Fries joined the School of Social Work faculty as a full-time lecturer and field faculty instructor in 2011. She teaches in field education courses and across the MSW curriculum..

Dr. Nancy R. Hooyman, Hooyman Professor in Gerontology and Dean Emeritus at the UW School of Social Work is recipient of the School’s first endowed professorship in gerontology, the Nancy R. Hooyman Professorship. She also served as the director of the School's PhD program in social welfare. 

Since 2002, Zynovia Hetherington, associate teaching professor, has been director of the Child Welfare Training and Advancement Program at the School of Social Work. In that capacity, she oversees CWTAP’s multi-million-dollar budget and manages a team of six faculty and four administrative staff. In 2018, the CWTAP team received the School’s Martin Luther King Jr. Community Service Recognition Award. 

Jennifer Brower currently serves as a lecturer and faculty member in the Office of Field Education, working with graduate students. Jennifer’s area of practice interest and experience includes administration, policy, immigrants and refugees and communities of color.