Deirdre Lanesskog, PhD, MPA
Director / Associate Professor
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
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
Interests: Substance abuse treatment, macro social work practice, research methods, and healthcare among Native Americans.
Yawen Li, PhD, MSW
Professor
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
Interests: AIDS prevention and services, foster youth, technology in teaching, service learning.
Carolyn McAllister, PhD, MSW
Professor
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
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
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
Interests: Food insecurity, poverty, human rights, social welfare policy, qualitative research methods
Herbert Shon, PhD, LCSW
Assistant Professor
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
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
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
Interests: Child Welfare, including family and community engagement, policy development, and workforce education, training and mentoring.
Nick Watson MSW
Full-time Lecturer
Interests: Child welfare, high risk youth, health policy and substance abuse.
Frank McAlpin, DSW, MSW
Full-time Lecturer
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
Alejandro Reyes
Lecturer
School of Social Work
Alesha Marshall
Lecturer
School of Social Work
Alicia Harris
Lecturer
School of Social Work
Amanda Smith
Lecturer
School of Social Work
Andrew Godoy
Lecturer
School of Social Work
Angel Agudo
Lecturer
School of Social Work
Ariel Macon-Richard
Lecturer
School of Social Work
Chiana Ghant
Lecturer
School of Social Work
Gus Fierro
Lecturer
School of Social Work
Heather Sylvester
Lecturer
School of Social Work
Jeannine Meza
Lecturer
School of Social Work
Jennifer Nakamura
Lecturer
School of Social Work
Josefina Sierra
Lecturer
School of Social Work
Kathy Turnbull
Lecturer
School of Social Work
Kevin Anderson
Lecturer
School of Social Work
Kurt Manio
Lecturer
School of Social Work
Linda Revoner
Lecturer
School of Social Work
Lisa Hecker
Lecturer
School of Social Work
Nicholas Perez
Lecturer
School of Social Work
Peter Caro
Lecturer
School of Social Work
Rachel Estrada
Lecturer
School of Social Work
Riba Eshanzada
Lecturer
School of Social Work
Robert Harris
Lecturer
School of Social Work
Tiffany Young
Lecturer
School of Social Work
Administrative Staff
Jolynne Morgan
Business Manager
Practicum Education
Victoria Sanchez
Administrative Assistant
BASW and Title IV-E Program
Paola Serrano-Montes
Administrative Assistant
Pathway MSW Program
Jordyn Ybarra
Administrative Assistant
Grant Programs
Janelle Gonzales
Administrative Assistant
MSW Programs
Angela Garcia
Administrative Support Coordinator - II
Jake Vargas
Business Manager
Palm Desert Campus
Mike Edwards, MSW
Child Welfare Specialist
Title IV-E Program
Sadania Gibbons, LCSW
Child Welfare Specialist
Title IV-E Program
Melinda Corral, MSW
Outreach Specialist / Recruitment and Admissions
BASW and MSW Programs
Stephanie Schneider, PhD, MSW
Director Grant Programs
Zoila Covarrubias, MBA
Fiscal Business Manager
Peter Nguyen
Information Technology Consultant