Warren Graham

Currently the Associate Dean of Practicum Learning at Columbia University’s School of Social Work, Warren has previously served as Assistant Dean of Practicum Education and Clinical Associate Professor at SUNY Stony Brook, and Assistant Director of Field Education for the MSW Program at the Silberman School of Social Work at Hunter College. 

As an educator, Warren’s teaching pedagogy includes courses in undergraduate and graduate courses like: Anti-Racist Social Work: Understanding White Fragility and Black Rage,  Human Behavior in the Social Environment, Contemporary Social Justice, Advanced Social Work Practice with Individuals in a Family Context, Oppression, Diversity, and Human Rights, Foundations of Social Work Practice, Introduction to Social Work, Diversity and Oppression in Clinical Social Work Practice utilizing a P.I.E. Perspective, and Advanced Clinical Practice with Families and Couples.

Prior to academia, Warren’s 21 years of past direct practice experience include outpatient substance use and mental health, alternatives to incarceration treatment programs, and practice at the micro, mezzo, and macro levels. His forensic experience came as a result of overseeing the Nassau County Family Treatment Court and Juvenile Drug Treatment Court programs; as a grant funded Evidence Based Interventionist with Suffolk Department of Probation; and maintaining a court appointed forensic practice for 15 years. The clinical practice that includes court appointed work also includes a clinical private practice, Preferential Peace, LCSW, PC.

Warren is a 20 year active member of the National Association of Social Workers as NYS President, Board member for the NYS Social Work Educators Association, and co-chair of the Council on Social Work Education’s Council on Racial, Ethnic, and Cultural Diversity.