
mgwells@uw.edu
206-616-2339
112B
Professional interests
- Child mental health
- School-based clinical social work
- Parent training and coaching
- Individual and group evaluation
- Qualitative research
- Project management
Morgan Wells
Assistant Teaching Professor, Office of Field Education; Clinical Instructor
MSW, Simmons College
Morgan (she/they) grew up in Houston and earned her Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from Wellesley College in 2003. She earned her MSW in Clinical Social Work from Simmons University in 2006 and returned home, where got her start working with families displaced by Hurricane Katrina. Morgan has been a member of the Field Faculty since the fall of 2019, and has served as a field instructor to 20 social work students across 5 schools of social work. In her 16 years of practice experience Morgan has worked in Head Start, K-5 school-based mental health, youth development, kinship care and nonprofit capacity-building. She has been a consistent member of the SSW Field Education Advisory Council since the fall of 2014. She has held a Clinical Instructor appointment at the UWS SSW since 2018, and held an Affiliate Instructor appointment at the School of Social Work and Criminal Justice at UWT from 2017 – 2020. She currently holds at Assistant Teaching Professor Appointment at the SSW, where she is serving at the Interim Assistant Dean and Director of the Office of Field Education. She lives in the South End with her wife, mother, two sons, two dogs and two cats.