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.

K.C. Harrison K.C. Harrison

What motivates me in my work? I've always been intensely curious about how the world works and what it looks like through others' eyes. I read stories because they satisfy and stoke this desire.

Michelle Mattison Michelle Mattison

Michelle Mattison, LICSW, LMSW, RYT-500 is a Detroit native with a deep commitment to yoga, social justice, and improving health outcomes in underserved communities.

Michelle Mattison, On-Campus MSW Program Director

Deborah Moore Deborah Moore

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

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.

Heidi Presslein

Stacy Remke Stacy Remke

Clinical Social Work, Healing Strategies, Child Welfare, Pediatric Palliative Care

Stacy Remke, Senior Teaching Specialist

Molly Rojas Collins Molly Rojas Collins

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

What motivates me in my work? Usually, people come to college with the desire to make their lives different. I believe education helps people move from less choice to more choice.

Suzanne Shatila Suzanne Shatila

Suzanne Shatila, DSW, MSSW, LGSW, is the Director of Distributed Learning. Dr. Shatila was involved in mezzo and macro-level social work practice with human services, children's services, and community-based nonprofits prior to moving into higher…

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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