Jana Woodiwiss
PhD Student
ABD
Jana Woodiwiss, LMSW, (she/her/hers) is a Southern Regional Education Board (SREB) and Dianne C. Davidson Fellow. She serves as a Consultant to the Child Welfare League of America and Annie E. Casey Foundation, specifically on the National 21st Century Research Agenda. She is also a Board Member to the DNA Bridge Consortium, a 501C-3 organization which works to reunify families using DNA. Her research is focused on the impact of family separation among Latin American immigrant families.
Woodiwiss has clinical experience in the areas of medical social work, foster care, adoption, hospice, and child sexual exploitation intervention services (C-SEC), and is presently a dialysis social worker. She is also currently supervising a team of students and community partners on an NIH funded research project with the University of Georgia’s Children, Families, and Policy Lab under the direction of Dr. Liwei Zhang. Woodiwiss also has experience teaching HBSE, Policy, and Introduction to Social Work in addition to other Social Work courses.
DISSERTATION COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
Harold Briggs (Chair), Orion Mowbray, Maria Bermudez, and Jennifer Elkins
Works and Recognitions
- University of California Berkely, Human Rights Center (See Forward- page.9): DNA Family Reunification Project: Pro-Búsqueda’s History of Reuniting Families
- University of Georgia, Graduate School: UGA Doctoral Student Creating Positive Impact in Georgia
- 2023 Student Success Summit Speaker: Southern Regional Education Board on LinkedIn: Day 2 of the Student Success Summit started with a student panel sharing…
- University of Georgia, School of Social Work: Immigration Insights: Taking UGA students to El Refugio and to visit Stewart Detention Center
- DNA Bridge Consortium Advisor: https://www.dnabridge.org/leadership
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jana-woodiwiss-lmsw-33a01924/
- Research Gate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jana-Woodiwiss
