Alexandria Forté, PhD, MSW

Social worker, #firstgen, researching poverty, food insecurity and mental health

[Alexandria Forté, PhD, MSW @abforte28]

Overjoyed to announce that I will be joining @UConnSocialWork as a tenure-track Assistant Professor in the Fall! A new adventure awaits🥳🥳! #academiclife

[Alexandria Forté, PhD, MSW @abforte28]

Such an honor to be featured and so grateful to be @UConnSocialWork!

[UConn Social Work @UConnSocialWork]

‘Access to Food is a Human Right’: Assistant Professor Alexandria Forté is featured in an article in UConn Today. Check it out here!

https://t.co/oUFQXCjWlj

[Alexandria Forté, PhD, MSW @abforte28]

Starting to wrap up my journey with @UNC_Royster by presenting my dissertation and due to childcare issues I had a special guest with me. Grateful for Royster community and will move forward knowing their prestige is matched by their compassion and kindness

[Hayden Dawes, PhD, 🏳️‍🌈✊🏾 @hcdawes]

I'm excited for my cohort mate/academic sister, @abforte28! @UConnSocialWork is beyond lucky to have this incredible scholar and fabulous human join their faculty. Her important contributions are on their way!

Also, look at the little husky wearing her onesie!

[Alexandria Forté, PhD, MSW @abforte28]

@mel_villodas @tingguan58 I have it! Sending now 😁

[Melissa Villodas, PhD LMSW @mel_villodas]

A #SSWR2024 snippet 👌🏾

[Alexandria Forté, PhD, MSW @abforte28]

Check it out!!

Recruiting Black/AA mothers and their children aged 13-17 for Zoom interviews to explore parents' and adolescents' perceptions of living in a food insecure home. Compensation available!! https://t.co/1DKoNEm2a2

[Alexandria Forté, PhD, MSW @abforte28]

Are you even on the job market if you don’t dream of amazing responses to screening interview questions only to wake up and feel like remembering is akin to trying to decipher a message written in Wingdings? #AcademicTwitter #SSW

[Hayden Dawes, PhD, 🏳️‍🌈✊🏾 @hcdawes]

This day has come; I am officially on the academic job market! Seeking tenure-track social work (or adjacent fields) faculty positions & postdocs! Research interests: Improving mental health treatment for LGBTQ+ POC, health equity, social media, and online interventions.
💙💜💙

[Alexandria Forté, PhD, MSW @abforte28]

@BriLombardiPhD Thanks for the reframe- I’m going to run with it 😂@BriLombardiPhD

[Alexandria Forté, PhD, MSW @abforte28]

Been having great meetings with people as I prepare to set out on the job market best advice so far- “Think of it as an adventure”. Really looking forward to see where the road leads #socialwork #AcademicChatter

[Melissa Villodas, PhD LMSW @mel_villodas]

Excited to share that one of my dissertation papers “Examining the Influence of the Neighborhood Environment on Stress Among Black American Adolescents: A Scoping Review” has found it’s home in the Youth & Society Journal.

https://t.co/KsHIJEaYLv

[Melissa Villodas, PhD LMSW @mel_villodas]

Our study highlights opportunities to address neighborhood-based stressors through community revitalization & interventions in spaces where Black American youth experience minimal stress which includes areas of increased greenspace like parks, community centers, and libraries.

[Melissa Villodas, PhD LMSW @mel_villodas]

Thank you @abforte28 and @drabw38 for their support for the post-dissertation version of this manuscript. As well as my wonderful GRAs who supported this work.

[Alexandria Forté, PhD, MSW @abforte28]

The amount of times I’ve had to transform (make a mistake) and undue then retransform this data feels like a episode of Sailor Moon #dissertation #phdlife

[Alexandria Forté, PhD, MSW @abforte28]

@DeniseYookong @UNC_SSW Thank you!!

[Alexandria Forté, PhD, MSW @abforte28]

Such an honor to be nominated by my peers to receive this award and be a part of the @UNC_SSW doctoral program

[Mimi Chapman @MimiVChapman]

Still basking in celebrating our ⁦@UNC_SSW⁩ doc students. Here’s ⁦@abforte28⁩ receiving our outstanding doc student award.❤️

[Alexandria Forté, PhD, MSW @abforte28]

So grateful for @mel_villodas especially holding space for me while I cleaned data, ran analyses (over and over and over) and wrote an abstract in 4 days 😵‍💫😵‍💫

[Melissa Villodas, PhD LMSW @mel_villodas]

Phew 😮‍💨 I’ve been so busy assistant professoring that I haven’t tweeted an original tweet in a while! I am back to shout out some amazing collaborators and friends who made a week of SSWR abstract writing (& life in general) a delight: @abforte28 @Anna_B_Parisi @tingguan58 — ❤️🙏🏾

[Melissa Villodas, PhD LMSW @mel_villodas]

Please help my brilliant friend @abforte28 recruit for her important dissertation study on perceptions of food insecurity. Details below!

#NorthCarolina #FoodInsecurity #BlackFamilies

[Alexandria Forté, PhD, MSW @abforte28]

#dissertation recruitment has begun!

Recruiting Black/AA mothers and their children aged 13-17 for Zoom interviews to explore parents' and adolescents' perceptions of living in a food insecure home. Compensation available. https://t.co/AMjCTsjPEi

@UNC_SSW