Ashleigh Washington, PhD, MSW
I am a social worker, nonprofit leader, educator, and researcher. Since 2006, I have worked in service of family and child wellbeing. I have experience with direct service, program design, organizational development, and teaching about justice in social work. Currently, I support the practce and profesional growth of more than 900 staffers at the nation’s largest victim’s service organization as the head of Learning at Safe Horizon in New York City.
I received my bachelor’s in social work from Prairie View A&M University in Texas and a master’s in social work from Columbia University. I received my Ph.D. at the City University of New York. As a public scholar, my research explores artificial intelligence, ethics, and racialized surveillance in the family policing (aka “child welfare”) system and other areas of public interest.
Highlights
My Commencement Speech, 2026 CUNY Graduate Center
My Dissertation, Calculated Risks: The Power of Predictive Risk Models to Regulate Families of Color
Essay, Biomedical Surveillance in the Child Welfare System
Publication: Space, Place, and Time: The Family Court Experiences of Child Welfare-Involved Parents
Grantee, Data Fluencies, Social Science Research Council
Alum, MFP Doctoral Fellow, Council on Social Work Education-SAMHSA