Doctoral Student
CUNY Graduate Center
Carla Silva received her Master of Science in Social Work from Columbia University with a concentration on Contemporary Social Problems. She is a multi-level social worker with extensive experience developing social service infrastructure within marginalized and materially disadvantaged communities she is a member of and an ally to. Her practice experience focuses on the praxis of change work, social justice, and equity with issues impacting sexual orientation, gender identity, race, and class. She appreciates the complex systems community members have to navigate for security, health, and well-being, and she strives to develop, strengthen, and create new processes that foster access, safety and security for all people.
As a social welfare doctoral student, Carla aspires to research the intersections of food justice (food apartheid and food sovereignty) and identity, as it relates to mutual aid; its merger of direct practice and social action; race/ethnic identity development and preservation; and the advancement of equitable social policy and reform.
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