Lalaine (Lainey) Sevillano, Ph.D. and Sid Jordan, Ph.D.
The School of Social Work is happy to announce that Lalaine (Lainey) Sevillano, Ph.D. and Sid Jordan, Ph.D. have been named assistant professors in the BSW program.
LAINEY SEVILLANO, Ph.D.
Lainey is an educator, scholar, and relationship builder. Driven by her extensive experience in working with youth as a high school teacher, advisor and mentor, her primary academic interests focus on youth empowerment through community-based participatory research. Grounded in decoloniality, her research aims to disrupt psychosocial wellbeing, health, and education disparities for minoritized youth, their families, and their communities.
Her secondary focus is addressing diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice (DEIJ) issues. She was invited and has served as the Doctoral Student Representative on the Committee on Diversity and Inclusion at the Steve Hicks School of Social Work (SHSSW) for four years. In 2020, Lainey founded and is currently directing the inaugural SHSSW DEIJ Student Task Force. Recognized as a leader in DEIJ, she has also been invited by the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE) to sit on their national Task Force to Advance Anti-Racism.
Lainey obtained her Master of Social Work degree from California State University, Northridge in 2018 and earned her bachelor’s degree in psychology (with a minor in education) from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2007. Her scholarship is noteworthy as demonstrated by the numerous scholarships and awards she has received, including a University of Texas Continuing Fellowship for 2021-22. Lainey is also a California State University Sally Casanova Pre-Doctoral Scholar and a Chancellor’s Incentive Doctoral Program Fellow.
As a MotherScholar, Lainey usually spends her “free time” trying to keep up with her two energetic kiddos. Her hobbies include hiking, discovering local cuisines, and listening to vinyl records.
Special thanks to our search committee: Alma Trinidad (search chair), Opio Sokoni (search advocate), Mollie Janssen, Denise Grant, Jessica Rodriguez-JenKins, Matt Chorpenning, Ericka Kimball, Kate Constable, Jessica Magnani, Ruby Gonzales and search coordinator, John Barnett.
SID JORDAN, Ph.D.
Sid Jordan (he/they) researches the politics and practices of health justice and gender-based violence prevention and intervention. Sid's scholarship and teaching are informed by his training in law and sociology, his experience as a community educator of anti-oppressive practice, and his participation and collaborations with organizations working at the intersections of queer and trans liberation, racial and economic justice, youth rights, survivor advocacy, and prison abolition. His current research responds to structural and interpersonal violence against transgender people, and focuses on the collective knowledge and organizing practices for health, healing, and safety of trans people and social movements.
Sid is completing his Ph.D. in Social Welfare at the University of California, Los Angeles where he has worked with the UCLA Labor Center, the UCLA Center for the Study of Women, and the Hub for Health Intervention, Policy, and Practice. As a graduate student, he collaboratively launched two multi-campus community-university initiatives. The University of California Sentencing Project is a collaboration with the California Coalition for Women Prisoners that amplifies research with incarcerated and formerly incarcerated women, transgender, and non-binary people and Just Research? Trans Futures in Health and Scientific Knowledge is a collaboration with trans-led community organizations focused on research ethics and justice-centered relations with public universities.
Sid grew up in the Pacific Northwest. He was a first-generation university student at the University of Washington and has a law degree from the University of Victoria in British Columbia. He is looking forward to getting to know Portland and enjoys good coffee, baking, live music, and outdoor adventures.
Special thanks to our search committee: Alma Trinidad (search chair), Opio Sokoni (search advocate), Mollie Janssen, Denise Grant, Jessica Rodriguez-JenKins, Matt Chorpenning, Ericka Kimball, Kate Constable, Jessica Magnani, Ruby Gonzales and search coordinator, John Barnett.
Please join us in welcoming Lainey and Sid to the School of Social Work!