Assistant Professor
Department of Social Work at Gallaudet University
M. Elizabeth Bowman is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Social Work at
Gallaudet University. She is also a minor domestic sex trafficking survivor, anti-trafficking
advocate, mother, researcher, clinician, and speaker. In her clinical practice,
she works with trafficking survivors using trauma-informed yoga group therapy and also
has a clinical practice supporting children and adolescents with anxiety and other
challenges. She holds clinical social work licensure in DC and Maryland and is a Registered
Yoga Teacher, RYT-200. Her research areas include the intersection of child welfare and
sex trafficking, organizational culture and supervision in child welfare, and special
populations issues in trafficking including LGBTQ, foster youth, and deaf youth.
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