Commissioner Marian HarrisCommission on African American AffairsFirst Term Appointed December 19, 2007 First Term Expires November 20, 2010
Representing Pierce County
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Biography |
Commissioner Marian Harris, Ph.D. |
Marian S. Harris, Ph.D., ACSW, LICSW is an Assistant Professor at the University of Washington, Tacoma, Social Work Program and Adjunct Assistant Professor, University of Washington, School of Social Work, Seattle. Dr. Harris also is a Faculty Associate at the Chapin Hall Center for Children, University of Chicago and an Adjunct Assistant Professor and Research Advisor for the Smith College School of Social Work, Northampton, MA.
Dr. Harris was awarded an NIMH Postdoctoral Fellowship and completed a two year postdoctoral training program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, School of Social Work. She received her Ph.D. from the Smith College School for Social Work, Northampton, MA. Dr. Harris is a former consultant for the U.S. Children’s Bureau and also a former Chair of the Public Policy Council, Children’s Alliance of Washington.
Dr. Harris is a Licensed Independent Social Worker who has a private practice for psychotherapy and consultation in Tacoma, WA. Her research and publications have focused primarily on issues of mothers who have children in the child welfare system including substance abuse problem severity, attachment typology, parental stress, child maltreatment, extended family support, race and family structure, and disproportionality of children of color in the child welfare system, especially African American children.
Dr. Harris is a national expert on racial disproportionality in the child welfare system. In September 2002 she was one of a select group of researchers who participated in the first Disproportionality Research Roundtable sponsored by the U.S. Children’s Bureau, Washington, DC. She is a member of the King County, WA Disproportionality Task Force and was one of the researchers for the 2004 King County
Disproportionality Research Study. In 2007 Dr. Harris was appointed by Robin Arnold-Williams, Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services to serve on the State of Washington Disproportionality Advisory Committee for Child Welfare. She is a Co-Chair of the Advisory Committee and also is the Chair of the Research Sub-Committee.
Recent honors include: 2008 Japan Studies Institute Fellowship (awarded by the American Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU); 2007- Martin Luther King Jr. Volunteer Recognition/Community Service Award, University of Washington, Seattle and honored as one of 2007 UW Distinguished Women; 2006- Certificate of Appreciation for Mental Health Transformation in the State of Washington by Governor Gregoire; Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers-2004-05; Academic Keys- 2004; Who’s Who in Social Sciences Higher Education-2004; Who’s Who of American Women- 2004-05, 2007-08; and 2004-Social Worker of the Year Award, Washington State Chapter, National Association of Social Workers. In 2007 Dr. Harris was appointed by the Tacoma City Council to serve on the Citizens Review Panel for the Tacoma Police Department; she is the Vice-Chair of the Citizens Review Panel.
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