Livia A. Polise

Livia A. Polise (she/her/hers), M.S.W., L.C.S.W.-R, is a social work practivist and advocate. Ms. Polise has worked in shelters, hospitals, community-based agencies, and private practice, integrating liberatory consciousness and third-order thinking into all aspects of practice. She has developed and implemented training and courses on topics such as navigating critical conversations, reclaiming conflict, advocacy and community engagement and action, ADEIB, and liberatory pedagogy, and has facilitated workshops for both nonprofit and for-profit corporations and for organizations including the Council On Social Work Education and NASW. Ms. Polise maintains a steadfast commitment to actively anti-racist and anti-oppressive practice, to social justice, and to elevating and centering the professional social work community as agents of change and leaders in the face of complex social contexts and oppressive systems.  Ms. Polise serves as Director of Practicum Education and adjunct faculty for the Adelphi University School of Social Work and adjunct faculty for the Columbia University School of Social Work.  She earned her M.S.W. at the Hunter College School of Social Work.