Kelsey (she/they) is a sixth year Advanced Practice PhD Candidate in Columbia’s School of Social Work. Before becoming a Teaching Consultant in Fall 2024, Kelsey served as a Teaching Assessment Fellow (2021-2022), Lead Teaching Fellow (2022-2023), and Senior Lead Teaching Fellow (2023-2024). She has also served on the CTL’s Graduate Student Advisory Committee since Fall 2023 and is currently on the Advanced Track of the Teaching Development Program. Kelsey has TAed for Human Behavior in the Social Environment and Social Work Research, and taught as Instructor of Record for Direct Practice with Individuals, Families & Groups and Social Work Research (required of all 1st Year Master of Social Work students), as well as Advanced Clinical Practice (required of all 2nd Year Master of Social Work students in the clinical track). They are also facilitating a CTL series on Pedagogies of Care in Fall 2025. Kelsey believes deeply that a parallel process forms between classrooms and spaces in which our students will go on to work, and therefore, if we hope to create generative and liberatory spaces in our fields, it is our responsibility as instructors to facilitate such spaces in the classroom. Feel free to ask her about trauma-informed classrooms and the work of centering often marginalized experiences within them!