Full Name
Priscilla Gibson
Job Title
Professor
Company
University of Minnesota
Speaker Bio
Priscilla Gibson, a Professor in the School of Social Work at the University of Minnesota, was a 2020 Fulbright Scholar in Namibia. She is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker, has a long history of social work practice and teaches social work with individuals, families and groups; diversity and social justice; and international social work in Ghana. She trains Child Welfare Fellows to work with African American families. She conducts research on African American grandmothers as intergenerational caregivers, the ally model of social justice, African Americans and out-of-school suspensions, character virtues in homeless youth and parenting in families with low-incomes. Dr. Gibson explores health and healing of women of color at predominantly white institutions and international social work education in Ghana, Namibia and Moldova. She recently co-edited a special issue for Reflections: Narrative of Professional Helping on racism.
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