College of Education and Human Development

School of Social Work

Academic Faculty

Katrina Cisneros Katrina Cisneros

Katrina Cisneros (she/her) is a Senior Teaching Specialist, full-time faculty member and life-long learner at the School of Social Work, University of Minnesota Twin Cities.

Katrina Cisneros

Katy Cobb Katy Cobb

Katy Cobb, LISW, comes to the University of Minnesota with over a decade of experience in non-profits settings throughout the Twin Cities, primarily working in supervisory and managerial roles.

Stacy Gehringer Stacy Gehringer

Stacy leads the Outreach efforts at CASCW, the Center for Advanced Studies in Child Welfare. She manages communication, training events, faculty partnerships, center collaborations, awards, CW360°, and policy tracking.

Stacy Gehringer

K.C. Harrison K.C. Harrison

KC Harrison is a senior lecturer in the youth studies undergraduate program.

Deborah Moore Deborah Moore

Youth work theory, practice, qualitative research, youth participatory evaluation and program evaluation and counter-oppresion theory and practices.

Deborah Moore smiles wearing a cream colored sweater and sitting next to a black cat.

Heidi Presslein Heidi Presslein

  • Director of Practicum Education
    Senior Teaching Specialist
  • she, her, hers
  • 612-624-4262
  • pres0051@umn.edu

Heidi is a full-time, 12-month, faculty member. She is the Director of Practicum Education and a Sr. Teaching Specialist.

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Molly Rojas Collins Molly Rojas Collins

  • Director of Undergraduate Studies
    Senior Teaching Specialist
  • 612-626-7346
  • colli038@umn.edu

Molly Rojas Collins is Director of Undergraduate Studies and Senior Teaching Specialist at the UMN School of Social Work.

Jill Stiber Jill Stiber

Jill Stiber is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker (LICSW) and has been awarded the national credential of Board Certified Diplomate in Clinical Social Work by the American Board of Examiners in Clinical Social Work (BCD).

Jill Stiber

Nate Whittaker Nate Whittaker

Please, call me Nate! I am a scholar-activist; a principled advocate in solidarity with historically oppressed populations.

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Jennifer Witt Jennifer Witt

Please, call me Jen (she/they)! I teach and organize at the intersections of gender, racial, disability, youth, and class justice with a focus on deconstructing structures of violence in teaching and practice via transformative justice, critical…

Jennifer Witt