Presented by Hilary Weaver, DSW (Lakota)
Chair of the Council on Social Work Education Board of Directors, President of the Indigenous and Tribal Social Work Educators’ Association, and Author

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Native Americans have experienced extensive trauma and continue to demonstrate substantial resilience. This presentation will provide an overview of the diverse Indigenous peoples within the United States while providing historical and contemporary examples of trauma and resilience.

Hilary N. Weaver, DSW (Lakota), currently serves as president of the Indigenous and Tribal Social Work Educators’ Association, chair of the Council on Social Work Education Board of Directors, and global Indigenous commissioner for the International Federation of Social Workers. She was inducted as a National Association of Social Workers Social Work Pioneer and named the American Public Health Association’s Public Health Social Worker of the Year, both in 2020. Weaver is a professor emeritus in the School of Social Work, University at Buffalo (State University of New York). She has presented her work regionally, nationally, and internationally, including presenting at the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues at the United Nations in 2005-08, 2013-19, and 2021-23. She has authored numerous publications, such as Trauma and Resilience in the Lives of Contemporary Native Americans: Reclaiming our Balance, Restoring our Wellbeing (2019) and the edited volume Routledge International Handbook of Indigenous Resilience (2022).

This virtual event, presented by the Department of Social Work, is free and open to the Springfield College community and the public.

For more information, contact Joseph Wronka, professor of Social Work, at jwronka@springfield.edu or (413) 748-3067.