Colleen Carew

Co Carew, PhD, Assistant Professor of Social Work, has worked as an instructor for over 21 years. She infuses experiential and discovery learning, as primary teaching modes. Carew also works as an expressive arts therapist, with a focus on trauma.  Her doctoral research explored and further defined a sense of place, understood as one’s connection to-P-people, L-land, A-ancestry, C-culture and E-experiences.  Additionally, she found that fostering these aspects can build resiliency. Dr. Carew's research, instructional and therapeutic specialty is using arts-based modalities and Indigenous research methods.