Clinical Associate Professor, School of Social Work
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, California
Dr. Terence Fitzgerald, Jr., is a clinical associate professor of social work. He grew up in Champaign, Ill., where he graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and earned a bachelor's degree in liberal arts, master's degrees in both school social work and educational leadership and a doctorate in education policy studies. For 12 years, Dr. Fitzgerald worked at the elementary, middle and high school levels as a school social worker in racially and economically diverse settings in Illinois. He has also worked with social justice grassroots organizations that focus on marginalized children and families. In addition, he has professional experience aligning curriculum of Midwest school districts for the purpose of meeting state and federal requirements.
He has utilized his program and curriculum evaluation talents to enable public schools in Illinois to make financial, efficient, ethical and racially just program and curriculum changes. Recent examples of his research on racism and sexism can be seen in White Prescriptions?: The Dangerous Social Potential for Ritalin and other Psychotropic Drugs to Harm Black Males (Paradigm Publishing, 2010) and his most recent book, Black Males and Racism: Improving the Schooling and Life Chances of African Americans (Routledge Publishing, 2015). To reference the work of Dr. Fitzgerald online, we ask that you directly quote their work where possible and attribute it to “Terence Fitzgerald, a faculty at the USC Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work.”
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Sunday, April 10, 2022
9:00 AM – 5:00 PM
