Hilary N. Weaver, DSW

Board Chair
Council on Social Work Education
Buffalo, NY, United States

Hilary N. Weaver, DSW (Lakota) serves as President of the Indigenous and Tribal Social Work Educators’ Association, Chair of the C SWE board of directors, and Global Indigenous Commissioner for International Federation of Social Workers. She is a career-long member of the National Association of Social Workers. She was inducted as an NASW Social Work Pioneer in 2020 and was named the American Public Health Association’s Public Health Social Worker of the Year in 2020. Dr. Weaver is a Professor Emeritus in the School of Social Work, University at Buffalo (SUNY). She received her BS from Antioch College in social work with a cross-cultural studies focus and her MSW and DSW from Columbia University. Her teaching, research, and service focus on cultural issues in the helping process with an emphasis on Indigenous populations. Dr. Weaver received funding from the National Cancer Institute to develop and test a culturally-grounded wellness curriculum for urban Native American youth, the Healthy Living in Two Worlds program. Dr. Weaver has presented her work regionally, nationally, and internationally including presenting at the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues at the United Nations in 2005-2008, 2013-2019, and 2021-2024. She has numerous publications including the text, Explorations in Cultural Competence: Journeys to the Four Directions (2005), the edited book, Social Issues in Contemporary Native America: Reflections from Turtle Island (2014), Trauma and Resilience in the Lives of Contemporary Native Americans: Reclaiming our Balance, Restoring our Wellbeing (2019), and the edited volume Routledge International Handbook of Indigenous Resilience (2022).

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Presentation(s):

• Ethical Integration of Indigenous Knowledges in Social Work Practice and Education

  Sunday, October 27, 2024
  11:00 AM – 11:30 AM CT