Experience
Dr. Stewart is an engaging and dynamic speaker who is skilled in having difficult and transparent conversations.
Training/Inclusion Development
Columbia University, School of Social Work, New York, NY (online)
Contracted consultant on the curriculum development team to revise and enhance the online curriculum for the Foundations of Social Work Practice: Power, Race, Oppression, and Privilege course for all online sections.
C4 Innovates, issue brief content reviewer.
Columbia University, School of Social Work, Professional Development and Self-Awareness (PDSA), New York, NY
Program Coordinator for Professional Development and Self- Awareness. Program development and action planning for diversity, inclusion, and accountability for College-wide trainings, orientations, and faculty development. Developed sustainable and actionable plans for change, including a required training and orientation for all students. Facilitated PDSA orientation designed for incoming Master of Social Work students. Required training included an introduction to forms of identity-based diversity and inclusion issues and solutions for self-awareness to address forms of discrimination.
Thomas Edison State University, The John S. Watson Institute for Public Policy and the Center for the Positive Development of Urban Children, Trenton, NJ Assisted development and facilitation of various symposium, training, and leadership development initiatives targeted at cultural competency for early childhood educators in the state of New Jersey. Worked on an annual training titled the New Jersey Cultural Competency and English Language Learner Summer Institute and Mentoring program. |
Teaching Experience
Five-years independent teaching experience, training interdisciplinary students about social justice theories and frameworks, ethics in social justice work, diversity and inclusion, power, race, oppression, and privilege, and forms of oppression including, but not limited to, racism; classism; sexism; heterosexism; xenophobia; transphobia; ageism; ableism; anti-Semitism; religious and gender-based discrimination. Experience teaching master and bachelor students, online and in person. Experience developing and implementing curricula.
Presentations
Stewart, A.E. (2018, January). Expanding the Theoretical Conceptualization of Racial Trauma: Capturing and Applying Lived Experiences. Hawaii International Conferences on Education, Honolulu, HI |
Stewart, A.E. (2018, January). Utilizing a Social Work Perspective to Help Student-Athletes Cope with Microaggressions in Intercollegiate Athletics: A Conceptual Study, Honolulu, HI |
Stewart, A.E., Graham, D. (2017, October). Buckeyes Go International: Access and Peer Engagement for OSU Student-Athletes. International Colloquium on Black Males in Education, Toronto, ON |
Patak-Pietrafesa, M., Stewart, A.E. (2017, October). Microaggressions and Implicit Bias. Annual Midwest School Social Work Conference, Cleveland, OH |
Stewart, A.E., Bowen, N.K. (2017, January). Measuring Microaggressions in Youth from Three Major Racial/Ethnic Groups. Society for Social Work & Research Annual Conference, New Orleans, LA |
Patak-Pietrafesa, M., Stewart, A.E. (2016, August). Advocacy as a state of mind: A multi-tiered philosophy for the school social worker. Ohio School Social Work Association Conference, Columbus, OH |
Stewart, A.E. (2016, February). Intersections of Poverty and Trauma. Annual Gathering of Presbyterian Women, Columbus, OH |
Stewart, A.E. (2010, August). Accessing “Literacy Moments” to teach culture in early childhood classrooms. The New Jersey Cultural Competence and English Language Learners Summer Institute and Mentoring Program, Trenton, NJ |
Peer-Reviewed Publications
Peer Reviewed Publications
Patak-Pietrafesa, M., Stewart, A.E., Bowen, N.K., & Kelly, M. (2019). Too hard to find with too little time: What school social workers want in online resources for evidence-based practices. International Journal for School Social Work.
Bowen, N. K., &Stewart, A. E. (2019). Measuring microthreats in middle and high schools: a first step toward making schools safe for all students. Current Psychology, 1–14. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-019-00345-3
Stewart, A.E.(2019). The lived experiences of Black doctoral students: Institutional racism and race-based traumatic stress. Ohio Link (Electronic Thesis or Dissertation).Retrieved from https://etd.ohiolink.edu/
Madden, D. R., Rathi, L., Stewart, A., & Clapp, J. D. (2017). Contextual predictors of AUDIT scores among adult men living in India. The International Journal of Alcohol and Drug Research.
Quinn, C. R., Volpe, E., Nichols-Hadeed, C., Pierre, P., Douglas, V., Stewart, A.E., Cerulli, C, (2017). Investigating barriers and facilitators to develop a randomized control trial using community-based participatory research with vulnerable youth at risk of homelessness and violence. SAGE Research Methods Cases. doi: 10.4135/9781526423641
Book Chapters
Stewart, A. E.(2016). Book review: Fighting Jim Crow in the County of Kings: The Congress of Racial Equality in Brooklyn. Spectrum: A Journal on Black Men, 4(2), 107–109.
Speaking Engagements
2020 invited commencement speaker, 2019 invited school-wide convocation address, 2017 invited commencement speaker, 2016 invited commencement address.