Assistant Professor
University at Albany (SUNY)
Albany., New York, United States
Dr. Sarah Mountz is an assistant professor at University at Albany School of Social Welfare. Her research, teaching, training, and practice focus on the experiences of LGBTQ youth in child welfare and juvenile justice systems using an intersectional lens. Dr. Mountz is particularly interested in LGBTQ, systems impacted, and other youth activism and organizing, and issues of educational access for current and former foster youth. She utilizes participatory and qualitative methods in her work with the aim of amplifying youth voice and promoting youth activism. Her most recent collaborative research, Assessing the Programmatic Needs of Current and Former Foster Youth at the University at Albany, uses qualitative interviewing and Participatory Action Research (PAR) in collaboration with a group of student scholars from the UAlbany Educational Opportunities Program (EOP) to explore their educational experiences in relation to their foster care backgrounds. Another recent collaborative research project, From Our Perspectives, used a community based participatory research (CBPR) framework to explore the experiences of LGBTQ former foster youth in Los Angeles County through qualitative interviewing and photovoice methods. Prior to entering academia, Dr. Mountz practiced in the child welfare system in New York City for several years, and was a caseworker in a congregate foster care facility for LGBTQ youth. Her work has been featured in several peer reviewed journals and books, including Child Welfare, Affilia, Children and Youth Services Review, the Journal of Public Child Welfare, and the Journal of the Society of Social Work and Research.
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Sunday, November 13, 2022
9:30 AM – 10:30 AM