Overview
Dr. Watkins is a tenure-track professor and provisionally licensed outpatient therapist. She earned her BA in Sociology, Masters in Social Work (MSW), and PhD in Social Work from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Dr. Watkins joined North Carolina Central University faculty in 2018 while serving as a school social worker and completing her dissertation focused on promotive parenting factors for academic resilience among socioeconomically marginalized Black children.
Current Appointments & Affiliations
Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
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2022 - Present
Obstetrics and Gynecology,
Clinical Science Departments
Recent Publications
Moving from Principle to Practice: A Researcher's Guide to Co-Leading Engaged Research with Community Partners and Patients with Lived Experience to Reduce Maternal Mortality and Morbidity for Maternal Sepsis.
Journal Article Matern Child Health J · August 2024 OBJECTIVES: Maternal mortality and morbidity disproportionately affect birthing people from racialized populations. Unfortunately, researchers can often compound these poor outcomes through a lack of authentic community engagement in research beyond the ro ... Full text Link to item CiteApplying an Ecological Systems Framework: How a Historically Black University, a Predominately White Institution, and a Public School System Created a Collaborative Undergraduate Research Experience
Journal Article Children and Schools · January 1, 2023 Guided by the National Association of Social Workers’ Code of Ethics and measures of competence provided by the Council on Social Work Education, the social work field serves as a model for strategies that promote collaboration across difference, strengths ... Full text CiteSocial work education in the shadow of confederate statues and the specter of white supremacy
Journal Article Advances in Social Work · January 1, 2021 Driven by our code of ethics and our call to reckon with our embeddedness within a white supremacist institution in the US South, the UNC-Chapel Hill School of Social Work re-visioned our approach to the MSW curriculum. Using case study methods, we trace o ... Full text CiteEducation, Training & Certifications
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill ·
2019
Ph.D.