Graduate Program Director/Associate Professor of Social Work
Toronto Metropolitan University
Mableton, ON, Canada
Denise McLane-Davison, Graduate Program Director, and Associate Professor of Social Work, is an award-winning Afrofuturistic womanist social work leader and educator. Her teaching pedagogy, research, scholarship, and leadership are interconnected and inclusive of Black Feminist/Womanist/Africana (BFWA) centering critical race, womanist theologian, and other emancipatory praxis to disrupt systems of structural oppression while fostering innovative strategies of transformation, reconciliation, and liberation.
Dr. McLane-Davison’s work on womanist research and pedagogy has been translated into three languages (Twi, Portuguese, and Hebrew) and has been presented internationally in many countries. She is also the 2020 Faculty Women of Color in The Academy Zenobia L. Hikes Teaching-Research National Award Winner, and past National Association of Social Workers-Maryland Chapter, Social Work Educator of The Year, as well as, the recipient of The Distinguished Achievement in Social Work Education Award by the National Association of Black Social Workers, Inc.
Dr McLane-Davison is currently serves as the Co-Chair of the Commission on Research, CSWE.
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"You Won't Break My Soul": Harnessing Womanist Joy in the Academe
Saturday, October 26, 2024
1:45 PM – 2:45 PM CT
Saturday, October 26, 2024
4:15 PM – 5:15 PM CT