Erin Nakamura

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Erin is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and Practicum Education Faculty at UCLA Luskin’s Department of Social Welfare where she coordinates the HCAI SWECE and Title IV-E Public Behavioral Health stipend programs.

Her research and praxis interests include public behavioral health, social work pedagogy, secondary trauma, trauma informed practicum instruction, the impact of psychological safety on professional identity development, and community based organizations.

Currently, Erin serves as a member of the UCLA Unhoused Task Force, and the SW Joint University Symposium Planning Committee. Off campus, Erin works as a clinical supervisor and organizational consultant, supporting students and organizations working to address issues of homelessness and domestic violence. In these roles, Erin works on multidisciplinary teams of researchers, practitioners, physicians, organizations, community leaders, and social workers to develop holistic frameworks to address social issues.

Prior to coming to UCLA, Erin spent two decades in a range of settings, including domestic violence shelters, rape crisis centers, inpatient and IOP/PHP settings, university outpatient, and macro roles within community based organizations. These formative experiences continually inform her work with students and communities.

 

Sara Terrana

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Sara Terrana is a doctoral candidate at UCLA – Luskin, School of Public Affairs in the Department of Social Welfare. Ms. Terrana’s research focuses on the nonprofit sector, particularly human-service organizations (HSOs) and their founders, and neighborhoods of concentrated disadvantage. Her dissertation, under the advisement of Professor Zeke Hasenfeld, focuses on Black female founders of HSOs and examines both critical junctures of founding, and how life experiences and racial identity have influenced the founding decisions and the ability to mobilize material and symbolic resources for organizational survival. Further, her research examines how social change and social justice is manifested through the creation of HSOs in a neighborhood of concentrated disadvantage in Los Angeles. She specializes in qualitative methodology and advanced computer-assisted qualitative data analysis software (CAQDAS) technologies. Currently, Ms. Terrana is serving a two-year term (2017–19) as a nationally selected representative for the Society for Social Work and Research’s Doctoral Student Task Force. Prior to entering the doctoral program at UCLA, Ms. Terrana completed her MSW from UCLA in 2013. She also holds an MA from Teachers College – Columbia University (2011). Ms. Terrana served in the Peace Corps in the Republic of Vanuatu from 2005–07. She graduated magna cum laude with dual bachelor’s degrees from the University of Hawaii-Hilo in Psychology and Communications in 2004. Here are links to her most recent publications:

Terrana, S., & Wells, R. (2018). Financial Struggles of a Community-Based Organization: A Teaching Case. Human Service Organizations: Management, Leadership & Governance, 42(1), 105-111. https://doi.org/10.1080/23303131.2017.1405692

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 Terrana, S. (2017). Minority Founders of Community-Based Organizations in a Neighborhood of Concentrated Disadvantage: Motivations, Barriers, and Strategies. Human Service Organizations: Management, Leadership & Governance, 41(4), 359–375. https://doi.org/10.1080/23303131.2017.1281856 Download here: http://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/IZ9FBSQNpDarV333bVvi/full