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Joanna C. La Torre, LCSW, MSW (siya/they/she)

Predoctoral Research Associate
University of Washington
Seattle, WA, United States

Joanna La Torre (siya/they/she) is a genderqueer, queer, multi-ethnic, community-embedded, Pilipinx scholar-praxavist and settler from occupied Ohlone territory in California’s Bay Area. Jo is an Indigenist researcher and social work practitioner whose work seeks to uplift sovereignty of Indigenous peoples around the world. Mx. La Torre’s practice has focused on young people highly impacted by carceral logics and systems including those imprisoned and/or surveilled by criminal legal and child welfare systems. Jo is a PhD student and Predoctoral Research Assistant at the University of Washington’s Indigenous Wellness Research Institute and is working on a study about the health and wellness of Native American youth at a residential boarding school. For over seven years, Joanna was a core leader at the Center for Babaylan Studies, a decolonial Pilipina/o/x organization. Joanna’s research is situated within the movements of decolonizing Pilipina/o/x’s and aims to bolster community-driven, culturally-grounded interventions addressing disproportionate mental health burdens of Pilipinxs in diaspora.

In 2022, Mx. La Torre received two fellowships including the Minority Fellowship Program, awarded by the Council on Social Work Education (Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration) and INSPIRE: Indigenous Substance Use and Addictions Prevention fellowship, awarded by the Indigenous Wellness Research Institute (National Institute on Drug Abuse R25) at the University of Washington. In addition, siya was awarded the 2023 Initiative for Cross-Institutional Student Collaboration from the Group for the Advancement of Doctoral Education in Social Work.

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