Skip to main content
CSWE 2024 Annual Program Meeting Main banner
Columbia School of Social Work
Icon Legend
This session is not in your schedule.
This session is in your schedule. Click again to remove it.
Back

Mary Nienow, PhD (she/her/hers)

Director/Associate Professor
New Mexico State University
Las Cruces, NM, United States

Dr. Nienow is the Director of the School of Social Work at New Mexico State University in Las Cruces. She has over twenty-five years of experience in research, teaching, advocacy, program coordination, policy development and analysis and community organizing. Dr. Nienow was the co-founder of Grasstops, a nonprofit advocacy organization that assisted nonprofits and small community groups with their policy and advocacy goals. Her extensive practice experience also includes Policy Consultant for Hennepin County Medical Center, Field Director at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, Executive Director at Child Care WORKS, and lead researcher on Health and Human Services for the Minnesota Senate DFL Caucus. Nienow is co-author of the book Whole Person Librarianship: A social work approach to patron services. She has presented on this topic locally, regionally, nationally and internationally. Dr. Nienow’s additional research interests include professional socialization of macro practice social workers, social work regulation, policy and program development, and community based participatory research.

Disclosure information not submitted.

Presentation(s):

Email Mary