Shannon Power
PhD Student
ABD
Shannon Power, LCSW is a PhD candidate (ABD) at the University of Georgia, where she previously earned her BSW and MSW. She pursues health equity at the heart of her research into dementia care navigation, focusing on disparities in rural and medically under-served communities. Drawing on her experience as a licensed clinical palliative care social worker (5+ years), Shannon explores digital innovations to strengthen care management systems. She values interdisciplinary collaboration and partners closely with the Cognitive Aging Research and Education (CARE) Center through the UGA Institute of Gerontology.
She is a 2025 Grand Challenges for Social Work Doctoral Fellow, 2024 SSW PhD Student of the Year, and UGA Presidential Graduate Fellow. She is an elected student board member of the Association for Gerontology Education in Social Work (AGESW) and was a 2023 Pre-Dissertation Fellow.
Shannon is committed to an academic career rooted in action-oriented teaching and community-engaged research. She has taught in the BSW program and regularly provides dementia education to community members and health care workers in rural Georgia. She has published qualitative and quantitative peer-reviewed journal articles (3 as first author) and holds a Quantitative Methods certificate from the Department of Human Development and Family Science at UGA.
You can find her current Curriculum Vitae here.
To connect, email Shannon at [email protected].
