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Elisa Kawam, MSW, PhD

MSW Director, Faculty
Arizona State University
Phoenix, AZ, United States

Elisa Kawam has her bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees in social work. Her main area of work has concentrated on children, youth, and families in the intersectionality of poverty, violence, substance use/abuse, and child welfare. She has a passion understanding and then for empowering the healing of trauma and PTSD. Impacted greatly by her childhood, Elisa grew up in New York and New Jersey and saw immense amounts of poverty, strife, systemic bias, and struggle. It was at a very young age that her parents instilled the values of serving others, social justice, and in human compassion. Those concepts have fueled both her personal and professional selves ever since. Elisa believes in the goodness of people, the strength of families, and the power of communities in co-creating a just society. A humbled social worker, Elisa feels that public service and higher education are one such way to this co-creation.

In her free time, Elisa enjoys reading, writing, music, hiking, yoga, and spending time with family. She is a trauma informed 500 RYT, vegan, and an avid lover of books and reggae music.

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