School of Social Work Interim Director & Associate Professor
University of St. Thomas
St. Paul, Minnesota, United States
Ande A. Nesmith, PhD, LISW is an Associate Professor and School of Social Work Interim Director at the University of St. Thomas (UST) in the Morrison Family College of Health in St. Paul, Minnesota. She researches environmental justice, how to integrate it into social work education, and how social workers help clients who live with environmental hazards in rural areas. She has developed curricular tools to promote an eco-centric perspective that values ethical decisions and prioritizes the health and well-being of all living organisms and all environmental systems. For the past 10 years, she served on the UST university-wide Sustainability Committee, working to develop interdisciplinary approaches to address environmental inequalities and engage students in climate action and sustainable living. When she is not working on environmental justice, Dr. Nesmith studies outcomes for youth aging out of foster care, and was recently awarded a Fulbright scholarship to study this in the Czech Republic. Currently, Dr. Nesmith chairs the UST Morrison Family College of Health Sustainability Committee, co-chairs the CSWE Committee on Environmental Justice and is a commissioner of the CSWE Commission on Global Social Work Education.
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Saturday, November 12, 2022
12:00 PM – 1:00 PM