Samantha is the Associate Director of the Office of e-Social Work Education and Practice at Indiana University School of Social Work. She is a Ph.D. candidate, a licensed clinical social worker, and a certified telemental health practitioner in Indiana. Samantha manages the e-Social Work Practice Graduate Certificate program and is a developer and coordinator of the e-simulations for IUSSW. She is also a contracted telebehavioral health clinician for TimelyMD, providing college students with telemental health services. Her research and practice are in telehealth, online education, and e-simulations for practice preparation.

Christian is an Indianapolis-based social worker, educator, and researcher. He is currently a Visiting Lecturer at the Indiana University School of Social Work, teaching primarily with their online MSW program. He enjoys teaching Telebehavioral Health courses and foundational Social Work practice courses and he is interested in telebehavioral health, online social work education, e-Simulations, and enhancing e-Social Work distance education through program development and technology design. Prior to joining IUSSW Christian had been the Director of KidsPeace Foster Care and Community Programs in Indianapolis, IN. He also serves on the board of the IUSSW Alumni Association. He is a BSW ('12) and MSW ('16) graduate of the Indiana University School of Social Work.

Lauri Goldkind, PhD, LMSW is an associate professor at Fordham’s Graduate School of Social Service and the Editor in Chief of the Journal of Technology in Human Services. Dr. Goldkind’s current research has two strands: data justice and information and communication technologies (ICT) tools in human services and nonprofits. She has a robust network of community partners in New York City and internationally, including the International Federation of Settlement Houses, United Neighborhood Houses and Caritas Macau. She holds an M.S.W. from SUNY Stony Brook with a concentration in planning, administration, and research and a PhD from the Wurzweiler School of Social Work at Yeshiva University. Dr. Goldkind was in residence at the United Nations University Institute on Computing and Society, located in Macau, SAR, China from June to August 2017 with plans to return in the June 2022.

Dr. LaMendola is Professor Emeritus, Graduate School of Social Work (GSSW), University of Denver. He is an MSW, University of Pittsburgh (1964), community organization. Dr. LaMendola served as an army social work officer during the Vietnam War (1966-69). His PhD dissertation (University of Minnesota, 1976) investigated information system development in the human services. A pioneer in the integration of technology, human services and education, Dr. LaMendola developed an IFIPS award winning small computer system for human service agencies in 1979. He opened an Information Technology Center at University of Denver Graduate School of Social Work in 1983. He consulted in various countries and co-founded a number of early computer networks, including husITa. He has written about technology interactions with culture, social justice, inequity, human presence, sustainability, and every-day life. He is research and development consultant for a computer simulation that won the SAGE/CSWE Award for Innovative Teaching in Social Work Education (2019). He continues to write and to be an active reviewer for several journals.

Lea Wolf is a PhD student in Social Welfare at the CUNY Graduate Center in New York. Her research focuses on the use of technology to deliver care, and on how evolving forms of care advance equity or amplify inequality.

Dr. Brianna M. Lombardi PhD MSW is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Family Medicine and a Research Assistant Professor in the School of Social Work at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She serves as the Deputy Director for the Carolina Health Workforce Research Center at the Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research. Dr. Lombardi’s research focuses on understanding how health systems deploy interprofessional teams to address the physical health, behavioral health, and social needs of marginalized populations through integrated models of care. Carolina Health Workforce Research Center: https://www.shepscenter.unc.ed...

Christopher is a doctoral candidate at the University of Pittsburgh School of Social Work. His dissertation is focused on the role of teacher colorblind racial attitudes on racial discipline disparities within schools utilizing a restorative justice framework. His research interests focus largely on adolescent mental health, adverse childhood experiences, trauma-informed services, restorative justice, intersectional school based interventions, and the school-to-prison pipeline. Christopher has years of experience working as a therapist with children and their families, which actively informs his research.

She is an Associate Professor who has over 16 years of clinical mental health experience. Research includes school social work and informatics in SW.

Steve David is the first advocacy director at the Ohio State University College of Social Work. His work focuses on creating opportunities for students, social work practitioners and community partners to engage in advocacy and policy practice. Steve has developed trainings on activism and advocacy practice, and conducted workshops to equip social workers with skills to discuss voter engagement with clients in their existing practice settings. He also coordinates the college’s annual DC advocacy trip, which takes students to Washington DC to elevate social work issues on the federal level. He and his wife are both licensed social workers and live in south Columbus with their two children. Contact him at david.54@osu.edu.