Diana Melendez

(she/ella)

Social Welfare PhD Candidate-GC, Adjunct lecturer-SSSW

-Adjunct lecturer for Hunter’s Silberman School of Social Work -Field instructor based out of The Arthur Project, a youth mentoring organization in partnership with the Richard R. Green Middle School campus in the Bronx. -Social Welfare PhD Candidate, interests include possibilities for liberatory praxis within social work higher education.

Spring 2021

Silberman School of Social Work 

Practice & Learning Lab

TRAINING

Formal Education

May 2022 (expected)      Social Welfare Doctoral Program- Graduate Center, CUNY 

                                        Doctoral Candidate 

                                        Certificate in Interactive Technology & Pedagogy

May 2009                        Silver School of Social Work at New York University, NY, NY 

May 2008                        Seton Hall University, South Orange, NJ

                                         Dual major in Social Work and Psychology (Honors)

Post-Graduate Training:    

2010-2012                         Institute for Family Services, Somerset, NJ

                                          Liberation Based Healing Family Therapy

Credentials:                     LCSW in NJ: 44SC055117000 exp: 8/31/22            

                                          LMSW in NY: 081034 exp: 7/30/22

                                          Certified Psychiatric Screener S-4708 (inactive)

                                          Seminar in Field Instruction Certificate