Assistant Vice President of Equity and Belonging
Vibrant Emotional Health
New York, New York
Sa’uda Dunlap, LCSW (she/her) currently serves as the Assistant Vice President of Equity and Belonging at Vibrant Emotional Health. She is responsible for leading a new team with the ongoing establishment of an equity team to work closely with the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (“988 Lifeline”) team - a SAMHSA-funded program administered by Vibrant, and a national network of over 180 independently owned crisis call centers across the country.
It is a key senior leadership position where her department is responsible for developing and implementing a strategy to promote a culture of access and inclusion across all programs served, trainings, and practices. This role focuses on effectively meeting the social, emotional, and wellness needs of communities that are systematically under-served as well as those that are intentionally marginalized. The Equity and Belonging department is a partner within Vibrant, and with external federal, national, regional and local partners – in building deep, engaging, and meaningful relationships across multifaceted communities.
Her career includes case management, working in a psychiatric hospital providing treatment to children and adolescents and clinical consultation, implantation of school mental health programs in the public health sector and support to staff at community-based organizations.
Sa’uda was born and raised in East New York, Brooklyn. She is a proud product of the NYC Department of Education school system. She attended Hunter College, City University of New York for her Bachelor’s degree in Sociology and minor in African American and Puerto Rican studies. She obtained her Master’s in Social Work with a specialization in Social Work and Law from Fordham University, Graduate School of Social Service and received a Post Master’s certificate in Non-Profit Executive Leadership from New York University, Silver School of Social Work. Sa’uda is an Adjunct Professor at Columbia School of Social Work and a psychotherapist at Amira the Black and Brown Healing Space. She uses a racial equity and social justice lens in all aspects of her work.
She is the proud mom of a 22-year old daughter and 14-year old son.
Tuesday, May 2, 2023
2:15 PM – 3:15 PM
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