Associate Professor of Social Work, Field Education
University of Southern California
Winter Garden, Florida, United States
Melissa Singh, Ed.D., LCSW, MS-HSA, CPhT has over twenty years of online teaching experience at both the undergraduate and graduate levels at the University of Central Florida and University of Southern California, Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work. Currently, she is Co-Investigator on a $3.25M HRSA grant to assist disadvantaged and historically underrepresented students and attends the Morehouse Satcher Health Institute Environmental Health and Climate Justice Leadership Academy.
As a first-generation student, she has further defined her passion for equity, inclusion, and social justice through teaching DSW students, serving on the School’s DEI leadership team, and being part of the inaugural SEED (Seeking Educational Equity and Diversity) Leaders trained by The National SEED Project. Dr. Singh’s dissertation focused on strategies and barriers that faculty members faced when incorporating EDI in an online classroom. She also completed the USC Center for Excellence in Teaching Faculty Fellows program in 2020. In addition, her research interests include building equitable, inclusive, and trauma-informed learning environments, seeking ecological justice through multisolving, and creating organizational disruption to induce innovation.
The seeds of achievement were planted early in her career at age 20, when she led strategic projects to provide innovative distribution solutions to pharmaceutical companies. In 2016, a fellowship that she co-led won the Award for Innovative Teaching in Social Work Education from SAGE/CSWE for Educating Social Work Students for Macro Practice. In 2017, Dr. Singh was awarded the Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work’s Hutto Patterson Distinguished Faculty Award.
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Saturday, November 12, 2022
7:45 AM – 8:45 AM
Sunday, November 13, 2022
10:45 AM – 11:45 AM