• Barbara Barclay

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• Marina Badwan

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• Larry Curry

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LaTra is a Colorado native who received his B.A. in Social Work from Colorado State University . B.S. in Criminal Justice and Criminology with an Emphasis in: Law Enforcement & Public Safety from Metropolitan State College of Denver . A masters in Social Work from the University of Denver . LaTra's PhD will be in Educational and Human Resource Studies: Specialization in Social Work Interdisciplinary Studies at Colorado State University .  
LaTra's professional areas of interests include but are not limited to; human behavior and the social environment, juvenile and adult court ordered offenders, hostile and angry clients, female sex offenders, incarcerated at-risk youth, truancy & delinquency, mental health, invisible disabilities, strategies to resolve relationship disharmony, bisexuality issues and grassroots community political organization.  

• Kimberly Fielding

ADJUNCT FACULTY

• Irma Anthony

• David Bernstein

• Kelly Berry

Having worked in multiple settings, from schools, community mental health and hospitals to employee assistance, Kelly has gained both breadth and depth in her profession. She is enriched by and draws from these experiences as a social worker, clinician, supervisor, consultant and mediator. Kelly received her Bachelors of Music and Social Work degrees from James Madison University , a Master of Social Work from Indiana University and first became a licensed clinical social worker in 2000.

• Larry Botnick

• Kelly DeHaven

• Dave Gilliland Mallo

David Gilliland-Mallo graduated from the University of Denver with a Masters Degree in Social Work in 1984. Over the last 20 + years as a mental health clinician he has primarily in the area of services to person with chronic mental illness, specializing in assessment and crisis intervention services, He has had involvement in disaster responses and FEMA response to critical incidents. He has also been involved with the development of various vocational, residential, inpatient liaison and emergency services programs in Denver , Colorado and a state of the art acute treatment unit.

• Verna Haynes

Verna is a 1998 graduate of the MSCD Social Work Program. She was admitted as an Advanced Standing student to the Graduate School of Social Work at DU and received her MSW in 1999. Verna began working at the Denver Department of Human Services in 2001 in child protection intake. She is currently is doing kinship home studies for DDHS. Verna has taught Social Work: The Helping Process and Family Preservation in Social Work.

• Ralph Kennedy

Ralph Kennedy has lived in Colorado since June 1996.  He is 11 years retired from the Air Force. While in the Air Force, Ralph earned degrees in Aviation Management and Aircraft Systems Maintenance Technology and was decorated for a number of achievements. Ralph is currently the Director for Research and Evaluation with the Center for African American Health and formally Project Manager with the AMC Cancer Research Center (a core resource of the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center) where he continues to collaborate with other science faculty and staff on behavioral cancer research studies.

Ralph has been active in the Denver Community on several fronts. He is a past member of the Rocky Mountain Region American Diabetes EXPO Planning Committee, and board member for the Colorado Minority Health Forum. He has served as a Steering Committee and Advisory Board member, presenter, abstract reviewer and facilitator for other projects which have had a positive impact on decreasing health related disparities for ethnic groups in Colorado .  He is a member of the national Cancer Summit on Clinical Trials Task Force.

• Tracy Kraft-Tharp

• RJ Lobato

A native of Colorado from the San Luis Valley, RJ Lobato is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker.  RJ graduated from Metro. State College in 1993 with a Bachelor of Science in Social Welfare and went on to earn his MSW from the University of Denver in 1995.  RJ has taught for MSCD and the department of Social Work for six years.  His teaching has focused on HBSE, Introduction to Social Work/Welfare, as well as mental health and special populations i.e. Men’s Issues, Gay’s and Lesbian’s.  RJ’s background is in Mental Health with heavy focus on the Spanish Speaking Latino community. 

• Dawn Matera

• Belina Nassi

An LCSW with a CAClll; specializing in addictions and mental illness and women's issues. Her clinical time was focused on the indigent population of Denver, providing group and individual therapy, case management, but primarily managing and supervising a staff of counselors and therapists in a residential treatment milieu. Moreover, her business background provided strengths in the area of public relations, marketing, and advocacy, all of which are important in social work. Belina has taught SWK with Women, Intro to Social Welfare and Social Work, Case Management and Exploring Current SWK Issues at Metro. She will teach Generalist Practice II in Spring 2007.

• Hadidja Nyiransekuye

• Krista Richards

• Laura Shipman Hamblin

• Robert Slay

• Mitchell Todd

• Larry Trompeter

• Julie Monzingo

• Tim Young

• Darlence Chavez