Associate Professor
Central Connecticut State University
Dr. Reinaldo Rojas was born and raised in Puerto Rico, where he completed his bachelor’s degree in psychology in 1995, at the University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez. He obtained his Master of Social Work with a concentration in Community Organizing in 2002 from the University of Connecticut. He has had practice experience in child welfare with the Department of Children and Families, community work with several non-profit agencies, and public health work with the City of Hartford and the Connecticut Children’s Hospital. He completed his doctoral degree in 2015 from the University of Connecticut School of Social Work. His dissertation research was a case study of urban community development and the impact it has on the socioeconomic status of Latino residents. He also did work with Puerto Rican fathers and the relationship between parenting and culture. Dr. Rojas is currently an Associate Professor with the Department of Social Work at Central Connecticut State University, where he has done research with Puerto Rican Families displaced by Maria and is currently collaborating with a Invest Health grant in the East Side neighborhood of the city of New Britain, Connecticut.
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