people

Regina Alexander, MSW

AP Assistant Professor at UNCG
Email: rthayes@uncg.edu

Melissa Floyd-Pickard, Ph.D.

Professor, Executive Director for GCSTOP, Guilford County Solution to the Opioid Problem, Co-Director in The Joint Master’s Social Work
Ph.D., Virginia Commonwealth University
Email: mftaylo2@uncg.edu

HERMEET KOHLI, M.S.W., Ph.D

Professor, Department Chair Of Social Work
Email: hkkohli@uncg.edu

Ph.d. MSW

Carmen Monico, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Co-Director in The Joint Master’s Social Work
Ph.D. Virginia Commonwealth University
Email: ccmonico@ncat.edu

Fran Pearson, M.S.W.

Lecturer, Project Director for CSWEI
MSW, North Carolina A&T State University and University of North Carolina at Greensboro 
Email: afpearso@uncg.edu

Research Interests

• Supervision of interns
• building community collaborative
• program development and outcome reporting

Jay Poole, Ph.D.

Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Greensboro 
Email: kjpoole@uncg.edu

Brief Bio

Jay Poole has been involved in the human services field for over 30 years and maintains his license as a clinical social worker in North Carolina. Jay holds the Master of Social Work degree and the Doctor of Philosophy in Educational Leadership Cultural Foundations.

Research Interests

• identity studies
• community engaged approaches to interdisciplinary and integrated approaches to care

Meredith C.F. Powers, Ph.D., M.S.W.

Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of South Carolina
Email: mcfpowers@uncg.edu

Brief Bio

Meredith C.F. Powers has served as a Sustainability Faculty Fellow, is the Social Work faculty liaison for the International Programs Center and serves on the School of Health and Human Science’s committee for internationalizing the curriculum.

She has co-authored and co-edited a growing body of work on climate justice, the eco-social worldview, and eco-therapeutic practices for healing.

Research Interests

• Climate justice, Environmental Justice
• Promoting the Embrace of an Eco-social worldview
• Eco-therapeutic practices for healing and radical self-care
• University-community partnerships for sustainability

J. Dontae’ Roberts, M.S.W., L.C.S.W.

Brief Bio

J. Dontae’ Roberts received the Licensed Clinical Social Worker certification and has practiced at the Veteran Affairs for 5 years, as well as a research assistant at UNC- Greensboro.

He joined the Ph.D. program after nearly a decade of psychotherapy practice and medical social work working on multiple interdisciplinary teams.

Research Interests

• Macro social work and program development
• Epigenetics
• Fatherhood

Mashooq Salehin, Ph.D., M.S.W.

Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of Texas at Arlington, M.S.W., Southern Illinois University at Carbondale
Email: masalehin@ncat.edu

Brief Bio

Dr. Salehin has been involved in several research projects as a T&R faculty in the Joint Programs in Social Work. Throughout his academic appointment, Dr. Salehin has been taking the opportunities to translate his research interests into the studies on underprivileged groups in need of assistance addressing relevant policy issues.

He has been published in reference books and scholarly peer-reviewed journals and have delivered papers at national and international conferences.

Research Interests

• reproductive health and social policy
• globalization and its impact on sustainable and social development
• gender issues
• inequality
• poverty
• social justice

Johnette Walser, MSW, LCSW, LSSW

AP Associate Professor, UNCG JMSW Field Co-Director
Email: jcwalser@uncg.edu

Natalie Yates, MSW

AP Associate Professor, UNCG JMSW Field Co-Director
Email: ndyates@uncg.edu