Lisa Werkmeister Rozas, MA, MSW, PhD, is an associate professor at the University of Connecticut School of Social Work. Her scholarship, teaching and consulting work focus on various aspects of oppression, coloniality, and anti-racism. She teaches courses on Human Oppression, Social Justice and Dialogue, Health Disparities, and a travel study exchange with a University in Germany on Genocide. She has written about intersectional theory, critical consciousness, and dialogue and uses them as pedagogical anchors, which she believes are essential to learning about oppression and advocating for racial and social justice.
