Helping people hear each other... One story at a time
Welcome to a new platform for cultural change created by the ETSU Office of Equity and Inclusion. We are on an exciting journey that we hope will establish productive dialogue on the many challenges facing us as we strive for Social Justice.
We hope to create something useful with Community Voices. We aim to make this publication a place to establish compassion and understanding by providing readers with hundreds of individual’s stories from varying backgrounds and different points of view. Hence the tag line, “Helping People Hear Each Other One Story at a Time.”
Contributing writer:
Dr. Debi Thibeault
Associate Professor, Department of Social Work, ETSU
Deborah (Debi) Thibeault, LCSW, DSW is an Associate Professor in the Department of
Social Work at East Tennessee State University. Her research interests are history
and policies that impact indigenous peoples such as Indian Child Welfare, historical
trauma, and cultural appropriation. Environmental justice education is another area
of scholarship. Debi is a member of Council on Social Work Education (CSWE) and serves
as the Indigenous and Tribal Social Work co-track chair CSWE’s Annual Program Meeting.
She is also a member of the Indigenous and Tribal Social Work Educator Association.
Prior to teaching full-time she worked in the field of social work for over twenty
years, in case management, advocacy, program coordination, and directing non-profit
organizations. The populations she worked with include gang-involved youth, youth
involved with Juvenile Justice, and people with HIV/AIDS. In her clinical work she
worked heavily with children overcoming trauma who were in child protective services.
Magazine Archive:
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Volume 1 Issue 1; May 2022
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Volume 1 Issue 2; August 2022
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Volume 1 Issue 3; November 2022
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Volume 1 Issue 4; April 2023