Our Faculty Affiliates

Penina Acayo Laker, MFA
Assistant Professor

Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis

Benjamin Akande, PhD
Assistant Chancellor of International Programs, Director of Africa Initiative

Washington University in St. Louis

Ana Baumann
Research Assistant Professor

Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis

Jeanne Brooks-Gunn, PhD
Virginia and Leonard Marx Professor of Child and Parent Development and Education Co-director, National Center for Children & Families

Teachers College, Columbia University

Patricia Cavazos-Rehg, PhD
Professor of Psychiatry

Washington University in St. Louis

Amy Conroy, PhD
Assistant Professor of Medicine

University of California, San Francisco

Irv Garfinkel, PhD
Mitchell I. Ginsberg Professor of Contemporary Urban Problems
Columbia School of Social Work
Laura Gauer Bermudez, PhD
Director of Evidence and Learning

Global Fund to End Modern Slavery

Kimberly Hoagwood, PhD
Cathy and Stephen Graham Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

New York University Langone Health

Philip Hong, PhD
Professor & Associate Dean for Research

Center for Research on Self Sufficiency (CROSS), School of Social Work, Loyola University of Chicago 

Habiba Ibrahim, PhD
Postdoctoral Research Associate

Saint Louis University

Leyla Ismayilova, PhD
Associate Professor

The University of Chicago, School of Social Service Administration

Juliet Iwelunmor, PhD
Associate Professor

Saint Louis University, College for Public Health and Social Justice

Larissa Jennings Mayo-Wilson, PhD
Assistant Professor of International Health

Indiana University School of Public Health

Kimberly Johnson, PhD
Associate Professor

Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis

Njeri Kagotho, PhD
Assistant Professor

The Ohio State University, College of Social Work

Leyla Karimli, PhD
Assistant Professor
University of California Los Angeles, School of Public Affairs
Carolyn Lesorogol, PhD
Associate Dean for Global Strategy and Programs

Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis

Mary McKay, PhD
Dean

Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis

Claude Mellins, PhD
Professor of Medical Psychology
Columbia University Medical Center and Mailman School of Public Health
Lynn Michalopoulos, PhD
Assistant Professor of Social Work
Columbia School of Social Work
Tor Neilands, PhD
Professor
University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine
Marion Riedel
Professor
John Santelli, PhD
Professor
Columbia University, Mailman School of Public Health
Guo Shenyang
Frank J. Bruno Distinguished Professor of Social Work Research

Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis

Julia Shu-Huah Wang, PhD
Assistant Professor
University of Hong Kong, Department of Social Work and Social Administration
Elizabeth Sperber
Assistant Professor

University of Denver, Department of Political Science

Yesim Tozan, PhD
Assistant Professor

New York University, College of Global and Public Health

Jane Waldfogel, PhD
Professor
Columbia School of Social Work
Susan Witte, PhD
Associate Professor
Columbia School of Social Work