Educator 🎓

Teaching & Mentorship

Tenured Associate Professor, Silberman School of Social Work, CUNY

Dr. Jemal is a transformative educator committed to justice-based pedagogy, healing-centered education, and bridging the micro-macro divide in social work. Her courses combine critical theory, community-based learning, and creative methodologies like applied theatre and psychodrama to foster self-reflection and structural awareness.

  • Practicum Supervisor: Encourages students to see clinical and structural work as interconnected.
  • Critical Social Work: Connecting clinical and structural approaches
  • HBSE: Grounds students in theories of human development through a critical lens
  • Clinical Practice 3: Equips advanced students to integrate critical and healing practices in therapy
  • Soulcial Theatre Works 101: Introduces expressive arts as tools for consciousness-raising, transformation, and liberation
  • Social Welfare: Examines policy, power, and systemic injustice through a critical lens.
  • Critical Social Work: Challenges dominant psychological frameworks; emphasizes social context and liberation.
  • HBSE: Grounds students in theories of human development through a critical lens.
  • Black, Race, and Ethnic Studies: Explores racial justice and identity formation across histories and cultures.
  • Soulcial Theatre Works (Future Field): Dr. Jemal is developing Soulcial Theatre Works as a field of study combining applied theatre, critical pedagogy, and social justice.