Affiliate Professor
Union Institute and University
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
Dr. Coconis has been teaching social welfare policy and macro/policy practice for 32 years in a variety of program types, university locations, and modalities. During that time, she has worked as an advocate for persons and groups whose circumstances left them without known or shared power, invisible and silenced. Through many social work and social change efforts, she has engaged in teaching and practice that centers around student/worker analysis and empowerment that leads to social change through the collective work of all our efforts combined. Women's rights, prisoner rights, restorative justice, media reform and internet neutrality, poor people's rights, human rights overall, the abolition of the death penalty, improved services for persons with mental illness, and ending solitary confinement each represent aspects of her research, writing, teaching, and activism. Dr. Coconis has worked in mental health as a case manager, community ombudsman, and quality reviewer as well as a longtime forensic social worker/mitigation investigator in capital murder cases.
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Saturday, November 12, 2022
5:00 PM – 6:00 PM