Kelsey Reeder

Kelsey Reeder

Ph.D. Candidate, School of Social Work; CTL Teaching Consultant

Kelsey (she/they) is a fifth year Advanced Practice PhD Candidate in Columbia’s School of Social Work. Prior to becoming a Teaching Consultant, 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 is currently holding a Preceptorship for the Advanvced Clinical Practice course required of all 2nd Year Master of Social Work students in the clinical track. Kelsey believes deely 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 them about trauma-informed classrooms and the work of centering often marginalized experiences within them!