Kelly Smith, DSW

Lecturer
Columbia University, United States

Kelly Smith, DSW, is the founder and director of the Institute for Social Work and Ecological Justice, developing programs that build social workers’ capacity to confront environmental and social justice challenges related to climate change. Her research focuses on social work pedagogy relating to ecological justice interventions and curriculum that addresses pervasive inequities and systems of oppression.

Kelly is a lecturer at Columbia’s School of Social Work and an adjunct professor at Adelphi University. Kelly earned her doctorate in social work from the University of Southern California. She is a member of the Grand Challenge for Creating Social Responses to a Changing Environment Advisory Council. Kelly holds a master’s degree in Gender and Social Policy from the London School of Economics.

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Presentation(s):

• Teaching Social Work Students about Environmental Justice through Innovative Social Action Initiative

  Friday, November 11, 2022
  7:45 AM – 8:15 AM

• Leveraging Multisolving to Impact Social Work Education and Advance Human Rights

  Saturday, November 12, 2022
  7:45 AM – 8:45 AM