Clinical Associate Professor
Stony Brook University School of Social Welfare
Leah Topek-Walker has been a social worker for 20 years. Leah began working in a community-based mental health clinic, and was privileged to work with individuals living with HIV/ AIDS, those involved in the carceral and immigration systems, and people experiencing economic and social marginalization. She currently serves as a Clinical Associate Professor in the Stony Brook School of Social Welfare Practicum Department and supervises the library social work program. This program is committed to providing micro and mezzo interventions to address equity and access to care and to concurrently providing social work students with dynamic learning opportunities. It is the largest library internship program in the United States and reaches vulnerable communities across Long Island while offering internships to over 20 social students each year. Leah is dedicated to working on issues of liberation and social justice and creating systemic change to empower communities. Leah completed her DSW at the University of Buffalo School of Social Work in May 2025, and serves on the Long Island Legislative Committee for Our Unhoused Neighbors, Social Workers for Justice, and Patchogue-Medford Friends of the Library and is a member of the Association for Community Organization and Action and the Social Work Doctoral Scholars Institute.
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