Christian Adeleke

Christian Adeleke, LMSW (he, him, his) is a social work scholar-practitioner and PhD student at the University of Texas at Arlington School of Social Work. He earned his Bachelor of Science in Psychology from Florida State University and a Master of Social Work from Florida International University. Christian has over 5 years of experience in several human service sectors, including substance misuse and mental health, child welfare, children and youth, medical social work, housing, crisis work, and individual and group psychotherapy. Christian’s research interests include the ways in which professional social work, in its current form, upholds the oppressive systems it claims to challenge. In his view, social work education’s signature pedagogy of unpaid internships is one of the most consequential structural changes needed within the social work profession to not only create a more just and equitable profession, but also ensure this 19th-century profession’s sustainability in a diverse and evolving world.