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Associate Professor
California State University, Dominguez Hills, United States
Dr Adriana Aldana is an Associate Professor in the Department of Social Work at California State University, Dominguez Hills, the first MSW program with a critical race theory perspective. She earned her doctorate from the Joint Doctoral Program in Social Work and Developmental Psychology at the University of Michigan. She is a community-based practitioner and developmental psychologist focused on studying youth sociopolitical empowerment. Her scholarship examines how participatory action research and multicultural organizing models build youths' capacity for anti-racism engagement. Her research with diverse youth has identified the processes that promote young people's ability to think critically about their social identity, systems of privilege and oppression, and inclusive social action tactics. As a practitioner, she has organized social justice workshops, managed a community-based youth dialogue program, and developed anti-racist training curricula for K-12 educators and youth. Dr. Aldana serves on the steering committee of Critical Race Scholars in Social Work.
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Friday, October 25, 2024
4:15 PM – 5:15 PM CT