SOGIE Scholarship Award

Award Rationale

The award recognizes scholarship that contributes to knowledge about sexual orientation and gender identity and expression; the individual and systemic issues associated with these topics; the development of social work curriculum materials and faculty growth opportunities relevant to sexual orientation and gender identity and expression; and the experiences of individuals who are gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and/or two-spirit.
 

Award Judging Criteria

CSWE members are invited to submit relevant scholarly papers for consideration. The Council on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity and Expression (CSOGIE) particularly encourages submission of manuscripts that do the following:

• Further the development and availability of social work education curriculum materials related to sexual orientation and gender identity and expression
• Provide faculty development opportunities related to sexual orientation and gender identity and expression
• Identify and critically analyze policies, procedures, or activities that impede full and affirming participation in CSWE and social work education of students and faculty members who are gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, or two-spirit
• Facilitate development of leadership in faculty members who are gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, or two-spirit
• Advance knowledge of affirming, innovative, and effective social work practices and educational models related to sexual orientation and gender identity and expression
• Explore ethics and social justice for social work practice with gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, or two-spirit individuals
• Address historical aspects of sexual orientation and gender identity and expression in the social work profession
• Promote strategies for understanding the intersections of sexual orientation and gender identity and expression with race, class, culture, disability, age, and other identities
• Explore international aspects of social welfare for persons of diverse sexual orientations and gender identities and expression

At least two members of CSOGIE will review the nominations and select the awardee. Biographical information and a photo of the awardee will appear on the CSWE website and may be included in the Annual Program Meeting Final Program if space permits. 

CSWE membership is an eligibility requirement for all commission and council awards. To check your membership status, or link your membership your social work program visit https://www.cswe.org/membership and click Link to Program/Join CSWE.
 

Award Submission Guidelines 

Please supply:

• a copy of your scholarly paper as a Word document with all identifying information removed, including references to location and institutional affiliation; and
• a separate title page showing the name, credentials, affiliation, and email addresses of all authors and identifying the corresponding author.

At least one author of the paper must attend the award presentation during the LGBT Caucus/CSOGIE Reception at CSWE's 2024 Annual Program Meeting.
 

Award 

The annual award will consist of a plaque.
 

Applications 

The call for nominations is currently closed. 

2024 SOGIE Scholarship Award

The 2024 recipients of the Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity and Expression (SOGIE) Scholarship Award are: Vern Harner PhD, Megan Moore PhD, Boi Casillas BASW, CNA, Jess Chrivoli, MSW, Amaranta Olivares MSW, LSWAIC, and Erin Harrop PhD, LICSW.   

Their award-winning paper is titled, " Transgender Patient Preferences When Discussing Gender in Health Care Settings."

 

Vern Harner, PhD
University of Washington - Tacoma, School of Scoial Work and Criminal Justice

Vern Harner is an assistant professor in the School of Social Work and Criminal Justice at UW-Tacoma. As a community-embedded activist, organizer, and scholar, their work aims to amplify existing strengths within trans and multiply marginalized communities. Employing both quantitative and qualitative methods, Dr. Harner’s current work focuses on intracommunity support, engagement with social and health services, as well as quality of life of trans communities. Aligning with their research values, Dr. Harner brings accessibility and social justice centered pedagogy to a variety of classroom spaces, including social work history, research methods, and LGBTQ practice. Dr. Harner is affiliate faculty at the Harborview Injury & Prevention Research Center and Co-Chair of the LGBTQ Caucus of Social Work Students & Faculty. When not working, they enjoy crocheting, befriending crows, and taking slow walks around the
block with their rescue dog, Rook.

Boi Casilla, MSW, CNA

Boi is a QTPOC person from the midwest of the United States. They center relational ways of knowing in their work and research. Cease fire now.







Jess Chrivoli, MSW
University of Washington

Jess Chrivoli is a community organizer, multidisciplinary artist, consultant,
and facilitator. They received their MSW with a specialization in Community-Centered Integrative Practice from the University of Washington, where they now teach as an adjunct instructor on disability and anti-ableist practice. They also hold a Bachelor's in Health Psychology with a focus on Public Health and Social Advocacy from Bastyr University. Jess is passionate about advancing liberation and thrivance for and with their Indigenous, 2SLGBTQIA+, Disabled, Neurodivergent, and d/Deaf communities. In healthcare, they focus on uplifting community care models that subvert and minimize reliance on the Medical Industrial Complex and other oppressive state systems. Recognizing the concurrent need for reform and harm reduction within the current system, Jess is honored to have been part of this research team.

Erin Harrop, PhD, LICSW
University Of Denver

Erin Harrop (they/them), LICSW, PhD is an assistant professor at University of Denver and a licensed medical social worker. Erin’s research focuses on eating disorders, weight stigma, and inclusive healthcare. Erin centers marginalized populations (e.g., queer, trans, higher weight, lower SES, BIPOC communities), incorporating mixed methods, arts-based, and lived experience research. In addition to studying the impact of stigma on these groups, Erin is also investigating interventions to reduce stigma (internalized and externalized). They recently received funding to evaluate a weight-inclusive support group protocol for patients with eating disorders in a randomized wait-list controlled trial. Additionally, they also design and evaluate interventions targeting stigma at the health care provider level, introducing interprofessional clinicians to weight-inclusive practices that honor patients’ unique intersecting identities.

Amarnta Lopez Olivares, MSW, LSWAIC

Amaranta (they/she) is a Master of Social Work graduate from University of Washington. They are currently a Social Worker at Seattle Children’s Hospital. They also have experience doing community based research with Seattle Foundation, mentoring undergraduate students at UW, and providing therapy to youth in community and school settings. They are overall interested in what wellness looks like and can look like for people who face oppression and abuse.


Megan Moore, PhD, MSW
University of Washington, School of Social Work

Megan Moore, PhD, MSW is Sidney Miller Endowed Associate Professor in Direct Practice in the School of Social Work and Interim Director at the Harborview Injury Prevention and Research Center at the University of Washington. She is a clinical social worker with a background in Emergency Department social work, Critical Care, and outpatient mental health services for victims of violent crime and other trauma. Her interdisciplinary research agenda is focused on health equity and improving health and mental health outcomes for persons who experience injury and violence.

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