About
Warren K. Graham is currently the Assistant Dean of Field Education and Clinical Associate Professor in SUNY Stony Brook’s School of Social Welfare, where he chairs the Field Education Committee and Curriculum Committee and Co-Chairs the Committee on Professionalism. Prior to Stony Brook, Warren was Assistant Director of Field Education for the MSW Program at the Silberman School of Social Work, and simultaneously Director of Field for the newly accredited BSW Program. Warren has been active as an educator for 11 years and with twenty-years of experience in addiction and forensic specific practice experience, is a NYS Licensed Clinical Social Worker, NYS Master-Level Credentialed Alcohol and Substance Abuse Counselor, and Ph.D. candidate at Adelphi University.
Warren is an active member of the National Association of Social Workers, having been elected as a Delegate to the National Assembly, selected as a Social Worker in the Courts Specialty Practice Section Committee member, and former Nassau Division Director and Board Member. Warren was most recently appointed a Councilor for the Council on Social Work Education’s Council on Racial, Ethnic, and Cultural Diversity and is the convener for the Greater NY Area Field Director’s Consortium. Warren continues to serve on the NASW NYS Diversity Committee.
Current Work
Upcoming projects all focus on microaggressions in social work settings. Microaggressions is a term used for brief and commonplace daily verbal, behavioral, or environmental indignities, whether intentional or unintentional, that communicate hostile, derogatory, or negative prejudicial slights and insults toward any group, particularly culturally marginalized groups.
In addition, social justice, human rights and the intersect of multiple identity levels continues to remain a focus as the founder of Preferential Peace, LCSW, PC, a small practice providing psychotherapy, and Obsidian Indigo Consultants, LCSW, PC providing organizational training around ADEI.
Research Area Keyword(s)
human rights, Implicit Bias, Microaggressions, Social Justice, white fragility