Nicole Saint-Louis, DSW, LCSW, is an associate professor of social work and the director of the undergraduate social work program at the City University of New York’s (CUNY) Lehman College. She has a doctorate in social work (DSW) and a master’s of social work (MSW) from the University of Pennsylvania. Saint-Louis also has a bachelor of science in psychology from the University of Scranton.

As the director of the undergraduate social work program at Lehman, Saint-Louis is responsible for developing, planning, overseeing, supervising, and monitoring the social work program and its accreditation by the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE) as well as the faculty and student progress within the program. She currently serves as a CUNY-wide interprofessional education (IPE) fellow, working collaboratively with faculty across the university on interprofessional simulations and related case and curriculum development.

Saint-Louis researches, publishes, and presents social work pedagogy, health operations, social work practice, IPE, virtual simulation, and race and racism in the implicit and explicit curricula. She has been instrumental in helping move forward departmental anti-racism efforts through Heals Social Work Honoring Education with Anti-Racist Learning Standards (SW Heals), a faculty-student-run committee, and a faculty learning community that addresses the application of the department’s anti-racism work.

Saint-Louis’ goal as an academic social worker is to continue integrating her clinical expertise and health research experience to advance the quality of clinical interventions with vulnerable and underrepresented populations, the professionals and systems that care for them, and the relationships between these stakeholders.