Kelly J. Gross (she/her)
lecturer
Office: Tisch Learning Center, 2nd Floor
Telephone: 518-580-5410
Email: kjgross@skidmore.edu
As a career social worker in community, administrative, and clinical practice, Kelly brings 20 years of experience into the classroom. More recently, Kelly has taught course on macro practice, micro practice, and community building/organizing at University at Albany. She enjoys the energy of teaching and learning from students and building understanding about social work practice as a community of learners.
Kelly's research interest focuses on community justice elevating community held assets particularly around economic and community development (or poverty). Her research center's community voice to position the strengths and assets as named by those historically resilient and racially minoritized. In-line with the use of community voice is the elevation of indigenous knowledge which encompasses ways of being, knowing and doing. Her current research is two lines of inquiry: 1. a community based participatory design in Malawi, with co-researchers in 3 countries on community/school led development in a very rural area; and 2. dissertation research on the use of social networks for micro-businesses in a low-income, urban context.