Kelsey G Reeder
Kelsey G Reeder, LCSW-R is a Clinical Social Worker, Advanced Practice PhD Candidate, Teaching Fellow, and Writing Consultant at Columbia School of Social Work, and Teaching Consultant in the university’s Center for Teaching and Learning. They have worked in therapeutic foster care, school social work, and community mental health. She maintains a therapy and supervision practice focused on trauma, relational challenges, and the expansiveness of queer and trans experience. Kelsey spent six years providing clinical supervision to Lifeline crisis and suicide counselors supporting LGBTQ+ youth. Their research explores conceptualizations of care that contribute to or disrupt collective queer and trans liberation (community-based vs. institutional care) and how social work is taught and carried out in ways that position social workers as sites of social control within their own communities. These experiences inform Kelsey’s classroom pedagogy, which centers care, multidirectional learning (and healing), and wisdom birthed in the margins.