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Suzanne Pritzker, PhD, MSW

Professor
University of Houston Graduate College of Social Work
Houston, TX, United States

Dr. Suzanne Pritzker is the Kantambu Latting Endowed College Professor of Leadership and Change at the University of Houston Graduate College of Social Work. Dr. Pritzker’s scholarship, funded by both federal and foundation sources, examines structures that facilitate and impede civic engagement and engages with community members to identify data-grounded strategies that can support civic engagement. She has published extensively on civic engagement, public policy, and macro-level change efforts, including co-authoring the book, Political Social Work: Using Power to Create Social Change, which helped establish the field of political social work scholarship.

At the University of Houston, Dr. Pritzker teaches courses on policy and political change. She leads the University of Houston’s political social work programming, including its Political Social Work Focused Learning Opportunity, the immersive Austin Legislative Internship Program, and the Voter Engagement and Political Justice Initiative. She has served as a board member for national social work policy practice organizations, including Influencing Social Policy and the Congressional Research Institute for Social Work and Policy. She is currently the policy focus team leader for the newest edition of CSWE’s Specialized Practice Curricular Guide for Macro Social Work.

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