Professional interests

• Diversity and social justice analysis and pedagogy
• Use of social and political spaces with effective social work interventions
• Role of queer centers and academic settings in harm reduction & suicide prevention
• Transformational processes in social work education, research, practice
• Social inequality and intersections of sexual orientation, gender, race, class, & disability
• Oppression, trauma response and related health/mental health outcomes
• Postmodern, poststructuralist theory, critical feminisms, & queer theory
• Critical feminist inquiry
• University LGBT theoretical foundations
• Trans, genderqueer, & non-binary experience in schools of social work
• Cultivating culturally-sustainable leadership development