Carrie Lanza, PhD, LICSW

Carrie Lanza, PhD, LICSW is an Affiliate Associate Professor at University of Washington School of Social Work, psychotherapist and consultant. She recently served as Director of Training & Research at Seattle arts organization, Path with Art where she developed a curriculum regarding trauma-informed, strengths-based approaches to arts services for systems-impacted communities. Over the past 16 years, her doctoral training, research and teaching at the University of Washington have explored the role of arts and cultural work in health and welfare research, policy advocacy, community building, collective healing and resistance movements. Her work has explored historical exemplars of arts and media interventions in early twentieth century forms of social work and public health practice such as the Settlement House and Social Survey movements. She has served as executive leadership of the Board of Northwest Folklife Festival and co-produced a variety of work with "artivist" Seattle-based collectives including Women Who Rock Project: Making Scenes, Building Communities, The Seattle Participatory Arts Network and The Seattle Fandango Project. As a faculty member focused on teaching she has taught a wide array of courses and study abroad programs integrating participatory arts with content on social and emotional wellbeing, justice movements and more. Her work is grounded in many years of participation and learning in participatory drum and dance traditions like fandango son Jarocho (Mexico), the Tarantelle (Southern Italy) and many genres of the Balkans as well as freeform, intentional dance and movement.
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