Professor - Emerita
The Catholic University of America
Michaela has recently become a Professor Emerita after 22 years of full-time professorship at the National Catholic School of Social Service (NCSSS) of The Catholic University of America (CUA). Since 2020, she has been a collaborating partner on a 5-year MCHB-HRSA grant for Leadership in Education on Neurodevelopmental Disabilities (LEND) program with the Children’s National Hospital in Washington, DC, her 3rd program-iteration partnership, in which she also is a core faculty mentor to social work graduate-trainees. She continues to serve as a dissertation-director and field-instructor for selected PhD and MSW students. She has taught onsite and online multiple clinical practice and research courses across undergraduate and graduate levels in social work. She has spearheaded multiple interdisciplinary community evaluation grant-projects, addressing the needs of children, adolescents, and young adults with and without disabilities and their families, often suffering from intersecting impacts of trauma, substance abuse, immigration, low-income, and health and mental health disparities. She has presented research at SSWR, CSWE, and allied disciplines conferences. She continues to provide peer-review services to multiple professional journals, including NASW-Health and Social Work and is an associate editor for the Journal of Child and Family Services (JCFS).
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