Director/Office of Global and Lifelong Learning; Adjunct Associate Professor
New York University
Ben is currently the Director of the Office of Global and Lifelong Learning at the New York University Silver School of Social Work. He has been in this role for 9.5 years. The ability to create and support Continuing Education Programs for NYU Alumni and licensed social work professionals is a joy for Ben, as is his work supporting students studying abroad in short-term MSW Social Work courses. Some of Ben’s proudest moments in this role have been co-creating a conference addressing the issues of Mass Incarceration and helping a diverse array of the Silver student body study away in over twenty-two courses. Ben supports social work’s mission of social and racial justice by focusing on CE programming that attracts a wide audience and offers workshops on such unique topics as gender identity, police violence, trauma in communities of color, and unconscious bias. Ben completed his Doctorate in Social Welfare in Clinical Social Work at NYU Silver School of Social Work in May of 2024. Ben’s capstone work was around access and Disability Justice for college students with mental health disabilities.
Before working at NYU, Ben held a myriad of roles at the Institute for Community Living, Inc. (ICL), a metropolitan NYC behavioral healthcare organization serving over 10,000 New Yorkers a year.
Currently, Ben has created and is leading a post-graduate course in Crisis Counseling at NYU. He is also teaching courses in the
BSW program on social welfare policy.
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