Danielle Geary

• Assistant Professor of Social Work

Professor Danielle Geary graduated from Carthage in 2000 with a bachelor's degree in social work (summa cum laude). She earned a Master of Social Work in public child welfare from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2001. Her work experience in public child welfare includes working with Rock County Division of Children and Family Services, the Bureau of Milwaukee Child Welfare and Kenosha County DCFS.

With nine years of direct practice in public child welfare, and five years of adjunct lecturing for Carthage, Prof. Geary joined the Carthage faculty as an assistant professor in 2009. She is a student at Marquette University, pursuing her Ph.D. in Educational Policy and Leadership.  Her research interests include accessibility of higher education for students of color, white privilege and its impact on higher education, and impact of poverty on children.

Education

• M.S.W. — Social Work, Public Child Welfare, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2001
• B.S. — Social Work, Carthage College, 2000

• Courses
• Social Work Department