Anna Wasim

Anna Wasim (she/her) is a PhD student in social work at the University of Denver Graduate School of Social Work. Her research examines family engagement, kinship and foster care, and child welfare, with a focus on the expanding evidence-informed services for kinship families and the youth in their care. Anna brings more than a decade of applied research and program evaluation experience to her scholarship. Before entering the PhD program, she worked as a research program coordinator with the University of Texas at Austin, where she led multisite studies and mixed-methods evaluations of child welfare, domestic violence, and sexual assault interventions funded by federal and state agencies. Prior to that, she worked for the county system providing direct support to survivors of interpersonal violence across the lifespan.

She currently serves as a Graduate Student Assistant on Fostering Healthy Futures at DU (PI: Dr. Heather Taussig). Anna's work has been published in Children and Youth Services Review, Child Welfare, and the Journal of Clinical Social Work, and presented at national conferences including the Society for Social Work and Research, the Council on Social Work Education, and the American Psychological Association. She is a recipient of DU's Doctoral Fellowship for Community Engagement and a Title IV-E Student Fellowship. Anna received her MSSW from the Steve Hicks School of Social Work at the University of Texas at Austin.

MSSW, The University of Texas at Austin