February 16, 2024
Amelia Mahan
Amelia is a licensed clinical social worker with over 15 years of professional experience, primarily in healthcare settings. Her passions include environmental justice, reproductive justice, rural health, and immigration. She began her social work career in direct practice in North Carolina, in community and hospital mental health. In 2010 Amelia transitioned to policy, program management, […]
February 16, 2024
Christina Mahoney
Christina Mahoney began her social work career as a family preservation/foster care case manager at Clarke County DFCS. It was here where she began to see how the various systems we live in impact and challenge the safety, permanency, and well being of children and families. After DFCS, Christina worked at Childkind for 7 years. […]
February 16, 2024
Shannen Malutinok
Shannen Malutinok is a licensed clinical social worker who has utilized her education in social work and public health in private practice counseling and teaching. Ms. Malutinok has concentrated her practice on individuals and couples who are experiencing prenatal and postpartum mental health issues. Additionally, she has provided health education through teaching mindfulness-based childbirth courses. […]
August 14, 2025
Elizabeth Marston
Elizabeth Marston is a licensed clinical social worker with over 15 years of experience working with trauma in inpatient and outpatient settings. She has a Certificate in Traumatic Stress Studies from the Trauma Center at JRI as well as a Certificate in Medical Trauma-Informed Care from Xavier University (Cincinnati). Elizabeth owns a private practice where […]
February 14, 2024
Rebecca Matthew
Rebecca Matthew’s research examines models and practices that foster healthy communities. Calling upon theoretically and methodologically diverse approaches, her research focuses on solidarity economies, environmental justice, safe and affordable housing, healthcare and social services access. In an historical moment of intensifying social inequality and environmental crises, her current scholarship calls upon critical social theories and […]
February 19, 2024
Emma Mattox
February 16, 2024
Valerie Dunn McBee
Valerie is a therapist in private practice, intensively trained in and providing adherent Dialectical Behavior Therapy in Athens’ only comprehensive DBT environment, Athens DBT Center. She is also the consultation team leader and provides clinical supervision and training for associate level licensed therapists. Valerie is trauma-focused and has training in the Dialectical Behavior Therapy Prolonged […]
February 19, 2024
Margeli Mendez
February 19, 2024
David Meyers
David Meyers serves as Public Service Faculty at the JW Fanning Institute for Leadership Development at UGA. Meyers has focused on child welfare and he has both organizational and direct practice experience. Since coming to Fanning in 2010, he has worked on a range of macro projects that support older youth with experience in foster […]
February 19, 2024
Dawn Meyers
Dr. Dawn Meyers has worked in public education for 24 years as a homeless liaison, school social worker, district director and chief of policy and student services. She currently serves as the Social Emotional Learning Specialist at Foothills Education Charter High School. Her professional areas of interest include policy, educational equity, home-school relationships, home visitation, […]
August 14, 2024
Natalie Milom
Natalie Milom, LCSW, is a certified EMDR Therapist and Consultant, Certified Emotionally Focused Couples Therapist and Supervisor Candidate, Trust-Based Relational Intervention® (TBRI) Practitioner, and the CEO of Potential Realized, a social work agency dedicated to families surviving adverse and traumatic experiences and the professionals, organizations, and systems that serve them. As one who is passionate […]
February 29, 2024
(Max) Seunghyun Moon
Seunghyun Moon’s research interest focuses on how employment status affects precariats’ family formation and child rearing strategy and how social policy affects the relations. Moon received his bachelor’s degrees in International Relations and Social Welfare from Yonsei University where he completed his basic knowledge for comparative welfare policy research. As an undergraduate student, he was […]
April 1, 2024
LaBett Morgan
August 7, 2025
Kate Bowen Morse
Kate has experience working as a mental health provider in rural private practice settings. Her background before obtaining an MSW included years working professionally in the creative industry, in addition to helping-profession roles in addiction recovery and behavioral analysis. Kate’s current research interests include elder and dementia care, aging in place, and access to care […]
August 1, 2024
Elizabeth Batuka Mukasa
Elizabeth Mukasa (she/her/hers) is a social worker with theological training. She has served refugee and immigrant communities in Kenya, Uganda, and the United States. She now works at Global Refuge facilitating programs that meet the needs of immigrants in detention facilities and mobilizing communities to participate in welcoming immigrants. Elizabeth has also worked as a […]
February 14, 2024
Kate Morrissey Stahl
Kate Morrissey Stahl’s research focuses on the intersection of aging and sexual expression, as well as other issues around human sexuality, including sex trafficking. She is a licensed clinical social worker with PhD-level training in marriage and family therapy and an AASECT-certified sex therapist and supervisor who has a special interest in behavioral and somatic […]
February 19, 2024
Trenice Morton
Trenice Morton, LCSW is a Licensed Mental Health Therapist who provides outpatient therapy services to adults and children with a wide range of emotional and behavioral issues. Trenice has a passion in working with adults and child survivors of complex trauma, such as sexual and domestic violence and human trafficking. Trenice has worked in the […]
February 14, 2024
Orion Mowbray
Orion Mowbray, Ph.D., is an established researcher and professor who examines the consequences of mental health and substance use on vulnerable and marginalized populations. His research helps shape policy and practice, by improving outcomes for individuals experiencing mental health challenges and those involved in the justice system. As an educator and mentor, Dr. Mowbray prepares […]
