Faculty + Staff

Stephanie DeCandia, Lecturer
Margaret Dickinson, Lecturer
Silvia Domínguez, Assistant Professor
Susan Flint, Internship Coordinator
Lori Gardinier, Director
Janet Lee, Lecturer
Wilfred Holton, Associate Professor
Maureen Kelleher, Associate Professor
Gordana Rabrenovic, Associate Professor

Decandia

Stephanie DeCandia

Lecturer
Human Services Program
Northeastern University





Stephanie DeCandia's areas of specialization include: Sexual Assault Related Legal Issues, Rape Crisis Intervention Counseling, Policy Development and, Legislative Advocacy.

Work History includes: Aid to Incarcerated Mothers, Boston MA as a Staff Attorney; Victim Rights Law Center, Boston MA as a Supervising Staff Attorney; and Boston Area Rape Crisis Center as a Manager of System Advocacy and Policy Development.

Stephanie DeCandia's areas of specialization include:.

Contact information:
Stephanie DeCandia
Lecturer
Human Services Program
Northeastern University
585 Holmes Hall
Boston, MA 02115
Voice: (617) 373-5918
Fax: (617) 373-8088
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Dickinson

Margaret (Margie) Dickinson

Lecturer
Human Services Program
Northeastern University





Margie Dickinson's areas of specialization include: alcohol and drug education/counseling; program administration, and telephone helplines. She was the Coordinator of Alcohol and Other Drugs at Northeastern University, Center for Counseling and Student Development, from 1987 to 1996. She has been a Guest Lecturer at Boston College and Salem State College.

Work History includes: VISTA Volunteer (AmeriCorps); Department of Social Services, Caseworker; Head Start Program, Human Services Coordinator; University of Massachusetts Boston, Entitlement Training Coordinator; WIC, Women, Infants and Children, Program Coordinator; Thompson Island Education Center, Program Administrator; American Cancer Society, "Quitline" Counselor; Mount Auburn Hospital Health Education Project, Substance Abuse Director; National Medical Care, Director of Smoking Cessation Project; Smoking Termination Program (STOP), Founding Partner; Mount Auburn Hospital, Center for Alcohol Problems, Counselor and Trainer.

Margie Dickinson's areas of specialization include: alcohol and drug education/counseling; program administration; and telephone helplines.

Co-authored: a series of "How To" Manuals

Contact information:
Margaret Dickinson
Lecturer
Human Services Program
Northeastern University
577 Holmes Hall
Boston, MA 02115
Voice: (617) 373-8164
Fax: (617) 373-8088
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Dominguez

Silvia Domínguez

Assistant Professor
Human Services Program
Northeastern University





Silvia Domínguez received her PhD from the Interdisciplinary Doctoral Program in Social Work and Sociology at Boston University. Her dissertation was a comparative ethnography of Latin-American immigrant women living in public housing in two different Boston neighborhoods. Her study focused on how racial dynamics affect the social networks and access to neighborhood resources of the women she followed during three years of longitudinal ethnographic interviews and participant observation. Her research stems from her work as a family and neighborhood ethnographer for the Welfare, Children & Families- three city study where she was supervised by Connie Williams and William J. Wilson who head the project in Boston. Silvia has already published some of the results of her research in an article in the Journal of Social Problems. Silvia was awarded dissertation funding from HUD, the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, NASW and AAUW.

Silvia Domínguez graduated from Boston College where she majored in sociology, psychology, and an MSW specializing in forensic psychiatric social work. Upon graduation, she became the Director of emergency psychiatric services at the largest prison in Massachusetts. Her clinical work has included substance abuse, HIV, EAP and violence prevention largely with minority and immigrant populations. She has experience as a consultant, developer and evaluator of social service and prevention programs, and has lectured both as an adjunct professor (at Smith College) and as presenter/trainer on a variety of topics including multiculturalism, mental health issues, and community organizing. Silvia has served as an expert witness on civil right violations, and her research experience includes issues of urban youth, violence prevention and community development.

She comes to NU from the Women’s Studies Research Center Scholars Program at Brandeis University and before she was at L’Institut national d’études démographiques (INED) in Paris where she was a Visiting Research Associate during the 2002 summer.

Contact information:
Silvia Domínguez
Assistant Professor
Human Services Program
Northeastern University
575 Holmes Hall
Boston, MA 02115
Voice: (617) 373-4274
Fax: (617) 373-2688
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Dominguez

Susan Flint

Internship Coordinator
Human Services Program
Northeastern University





Susan Flint has more than twenty five years of experience as a macro social work practitioner, specializing in program development and social policy. She has held professional positions in the fields of children’s mental health, child welfare, family violence and philanthropy. Other areas of interest include advocacy, social and economic justice, immigration, public policy, and program planning and evaluation.

Susan teaches the Human Services Internship class, consisting of a semester-long internship in a Human services organization along with a weekly seminar. She works with local agencies to identify high quality internship sites that match students' interests and learning goals. This course is also taught in the summer as a hybrid program.

Susan meets with all Human Services Students about their internships, regardless of when they take the course, the semester (or two) before a student wishes to start their internship.

Contact information:
Susan Flint
Internship Coordinator
Human Services Program
Northeastern University
577 Holmes Hall
Boston, MA 02115
Voice: (617) 373-8164
Fax: (617) 373-8088
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gardinier

Lori Gardinier

Program Director & Lecturer
Human Services Program
Northeastern University





Lori Gardinier obtained her Ph.D. in the Law, Policy, and Society program at Northeastern University, where she researched wage replacement family leave policies in Massachusetts and California. She is also a graduate of the Boston University School of Social Work.

Her areas of specialization include non-profit program planning, development and management, tenant/landlord law, homelessness, counseling and advocacy services for victims of domestic violence. She is also a batterers intervention counselor at Common Purpose.

Lori has been recognized for her outstanding commitment to practice-oriented education. She is currently the Director of the Inter-Cultural Summer Program.

Contact information:
Lori Gardinier
Program Director & Lecturer
Human Services Program
Northeastern University
577 Holmes Hall
Boston, MA 02115
Voice: (617) 373-5918 Fax: (617) 373-8088
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Dominguez

Janet Lee

Lecturer
Human Services Program
Northeastern University





Janet Lee has worked in a number of non-profit atmospheres including the Malden Public Schools, Gloucester District Court and Essex Probate Court.

She has worked as a Project Coordinator/ Supervisor and Guardian ad Litem. She has also taught at North Shore Community College in the Human Services Department. While teaching at Northeastern, Janet feels that it is necessary to carry a case or two to keep active in the field.

She is very knowledgeable in all aspects of child welfare including issues of child neglect and abuse, foster care, residential treatment and the Juvenile Court.

Contact information:
Janet Lee
Lecturer
Human Services Program
Northeastern University
587 Holmes Hall
Boston, MA 02115
Voice: (617) 373-2624 Fax: (617) 373-8088
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holton

Wilfred (Will) Holton

Advisor, Human Services Program
Associate Professor of Sociology
Northeastern University





Will Holton has recently had an article published using walking tours to teach urban history in Boston and other cities.

He has doing research on the motivations for filling of Boston’s Back Bay in the 19th century, and ethnic diversity in Victorian Boston, and the improvement of college teaching.

He maintains research interests in gentrification and public relief. He is involved in promoting community service-learning and interdisciplinary in higher education. Prof. Holton teaches Human Services Research and Evaluation in the Program and also advises Human Services students. He also serves on the Human Services Executive Board.

Contact information:
Wilfred Holton
Human Services Program
Sociology and Cultural Anthropology
Northeastern University
521 Holmes Hall
Boston, MA 02115
Voice: (617) 373-3853
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Dickinson

Maureen Kelleher

Director, Honors Program
Advisor, Human Services Program
Associate Professor of Sociology
Northeastern University




Maureen Kelleher’s areas of specialization include social deviance, social policy, and child welfare. Articles and an edited book include work on drugs and child welfare decisions.

She has also worked on a number of ASA Teaching Resources Projects including an edited instructional manual on Teaching Juvenile Delinquency and an ASA project on the state of graduate education.

Her current research is focused on campus policies regarding risk-taking behavior of undergraduate students. She serves as Director of the University Honors Program.

Contact information:
Maureen Kelleher
Human Services Program
Director, University Honors Program
Sociology and Cultural Anthropology
Northeastern University
561 Holmes Hall
Boston, MA 02115
Voice: (617) 373-4999
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Dickinson

Gordana Rabrenovic

Associate Professor of Sociology
Human Services Program
Northeastern University





Gordana Rabrenovic is Associate Professor of Sociology and Education and Associate Director of the Brudnick Center on Violence and Conflict at Northeastern University.

Her substantive specialties include community studies, urban education and inter group conflict and violence. Her publications include "Women and Collective Action in Urban Neighborhoods", "The Dissolution of Yugoslavia: Ethnicity, Nationalism, and Exclusionary Communities," "From Consumers to Co-Producers: Charter Schools and Education Reform in Massachusetts" and "Spreading the Wealth: Economic Partnership and Community Development."

She is also author of the book Community Builders: A Tale of Neighborhood Mobilization in Two Cities (1996) and co-author of Why We Hate (2004) and co-editor of the book Community Politics and Policy (1999) and the American Behavioral Scientist special issue on Hate Crimes and Ethnic Conflict (2001). She is currently studying racial disparities in suspensions and expulsions from public schools.

Contact information:
Gordana Rabrenovic
Human Services Program
Sociology and Cultural Anthropology
College of Arts and Sciences
Northeastern University
571 Holmes Hall
Boston, MA 02115
Voice: (617) 373-4998
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