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Caroline N. Sharkey, PhD, LICSW (She/They)

Visiting Assistant Professor
University at Albany, State University of New York
Albany, NY, United States

Caroline N. Sharkey, PhD, LICSW (she/they) is a visiting assistant professor and researcher at the University at Albany School of Social Welfare and Project Director for the Juvenile Drug Court Treatment Enhancement program. Caroline is a licensed independent clinical social worker with more than 25 years of experience as an educator, community mental health clinician and clinical supervisor, and community-engaged researcher. Her research centers on collective efficacy and social cohesion to mitigate community violence and school shootings, the impact of trauma and historical trauma, and to address the needs of young people in city contexts. They examine the role of meso/macro-therapeutic interventions, including socially engaged art, digital storytelling, restorative practices, and youth civic engagement to foster positive youth development, empowerment, and reclamation. Caroline’s research and practice seek to expand the role of social workers in non-clinical/non-traditional settings. Their research includes participatory-action research, intersectional qualitative research, video ethnocinema, and arts-based mixed methods approaches.

Caroline has facilitated trauma-informed training nationally to schools, courts, juvenile circuit judge coalitions, libraries, youthspaces, arts-based organizations, and community organizations. Caroline’s work as an educator addresses curriculum violence using culturally sustaining and responsive pedagogies and trauma-informed teaching.

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