Kate Phillippo, PhD, LCSW

Dr. Phillippo's scholastic work centers youth and educator experience of education policy and practice, and contextual influences upon these experiences. Her two areas of research focus are equity-oriented urban education policy and student wellness policy. As an instructor, she helps school social work candidates gain fluency with best practices, while she pushes them to help make schools growthful places for young people by enacting social work values, which will at times clash with how schools work. She equally prioritizes socio-political education, aimed at helping candidates think critically and systemically about their positioning in schools so that they can promote inclusive and empowering youth development through their work at micro-, meso- and macro-levels. With policy and research methods students, she enacts social work values by humanely supporting students' efforts to build skills, understand school spaces and education policy in context and act accordingly to promote racial and justice, and chart the course for the career opportunities they seek.