Doctoral Student
University of Denver
Denver, Colorado, United States
Sierra M. Roach Coye, LSW is an intersectional environmental justice abolitionist, and a third year doctoral student at the University of Denver Graduate School of Social Work. Her scholarship illuminates environmental racism's impact on health equity within the Black community. Sierra centers Black voices throughout her research using mixed-methods approaches and community engaged work. Sierra holds an associate degree in liberal arts from Onondaga Community College, a bachelors in psychology and master of social work from Syracuse University. Sierra's clinicial experience ranges from work in adult inpatient substance use treatment, pediatric outpatient, inpatient, and suicidal crisis care. Sierra has also worked in higher education, specializing in academic advising, curriculum evaluation, seminar instruction, and diversity, equity, and inclusion. Lastly, Sierra has previously consulted on suicide prevention workforce training and extreme risk protection order education for the State of Maryland Office of Suicide Prevention. Sierra considers herself a scholar-clinician who weaves in alternative ways of knowing and embodiment within her clinical practice as well as her research.
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Pedagogy of Care: Creating Communities of Care in the Classroom
Saturday, October 26, 2024
3:00 PM – 4:00 PM CT