Ortega-Williams, A. (2024). Healing Black futures: Black youth, organizing, & ancestors, and redefining destiny. Journal of Progressive Human Services,  https://doi.org/10.1080/10428232.2023.2301164

Gelman, C., Ortega-Williams, A., & Katz, L. (2024). Using a trauma-informed lens to interrogate social work education in chronic syndemic times. Journal of Teaching in Social Work, 44(2), 115-135. https://doi.org/10.1080/08841233.2024.2316341

Ortega-Williams, A., Crutchfield, J., Hall, C.J., & Brown, A. (2023). Colorism and historical trauma: Barriers and stepping stones for healing within clinical social work education. Smith College Studies in Social Work, 93(2-4), 160-182.

Littman, D.M., Ortega-Williams, A., Beltrán, R., Wagaman, A., Bender, K., & Wernick, L. (2023). Navigating, subverting, and replacing conventional academic structures and expectations to co-create with PAR teams: Where to for PAR scholarship? Journal of Community Practice, 31(3-4), 466-487,https://doi.org/10.1080/10705422.2023.2271923

Ortega-Williams, A. & Davison, D. (2021). Wringing out the “whitewash”: Confronting the hegemonic epistemologies of social work canons (disrupting the reproduction of White normative). Advances in Social Work Education, 21(2/3), 566-587. https://doi.org/10.18060/24475

Anna Ortega-Williams, LMSW, PhD is a Black social work scholar, practitioner, organizer and activist deeply inspired by the healing alchemy of social action and youth development. She has been a social worker rooted in community-based practice since 2001. She is an Associate Professor at the Silberman School of Social Work at Hunter College in New York City and Director of the Bachelor of Social Work Program. She is committed to uncovering practice interventions that push the boundary of where micro-level clinical practice ends and macro-level practice begins. Her approach to social work is grounded in cultural humility and centers anti-racist, intersectional, and anti-oppressive frameworks. Dr. Ortega-William's participatory, social justice-based research focuses on historical trauma, posttraumatic growth, social action, and land-based healing to expand conceptualizations of trauma recovery. As a Black queer mom, born and raised in low-income public housing in the Bronx,NY she is committed to expanding critical social work practice to expand how we promote joy, healing, social justice, love, deep laughter, and hope.