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Naples, Florida Area United States

BSW Program Coordinator & Assistant Professor of Social Work at Florida Gulf Coast University

Education

My focus in my current position at Florida Gulf Coast University (FGCU) is two-fold. First, as a professor, I strive to provide my students with useful knowledge they can apply to the real-world situations they will experience as social work practitioners. Second, as a researcher, I focus on topics of direct importance to the most vulnerable populations of society both domestically and internationally. On an international level, I have combined these through research and direct service work in Armenia and the Caribbean. In Armenia my research focus was on the situation of ethnic Armenian refugees from Nagorno-Karabakh and Azerbaijan. In the Caribbean I have focused on the development of ...