Adjunct Faculty

Haley Abboud Kamps, LMSW
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Adjunct Instructor

Jennifer Adams
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Adjunct Instructor

Cari Anderson
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Adjunct Instructor

Kimberly Anderson, MSW, LISW
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Adjunct Instructor

Gabrielle Archibald
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Adjunct Instructor

Kimberly Bergen-Jackson
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Adjunct Instructor

Susin Bredice, L.I.S.W.
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Adjunct Instructor

Michelle Buhman, M.S.W
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Adjunct Instructor

Katrina Carter Skinner
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Adjunct Instructor

Angela Chapparo-Arias, L.I.S.W.
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Adjunct Instructor

Lesleyanne Christensen
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Adjunct Instructor

Lance Clemsen, L.I.S.W.
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Behavioral Health Clinic Director
Lance Clemsen has taught the School of Social Work's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual class since 2005. His professional career began in 1985 providing behavioral health therapy and evaluations in public, health care, and private practice settings in California and Iowa.

LaTasha DeLoach, L.M.S.W.
Title/Position
Adjunct Instructor
LaTasha J. DeLoach holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the University of Iowa School of Social Work. In her position as the Director of the City of Iowa City Senior Center she provides administrative leadership for staff. She was previously Community Projects Specialist at Johnson County Social Services and the Johnson County Disproportionate Minority Contact coordinator and the Community Partnerships for Protecting Children coordinator for 10 years.

Heather Erwin
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Adjunct Instructor
Yvonne Farley, M.S.W.
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Adjunct Instructor
Social Work Clinical Practice Chair
Coordinator, Certificate in Resilience and Trauma Informed Perspectives
In 2010, Yvonne Farley joined the National Center for Social Work Trauma Education and Workforce Development through their National Collaboration for Trauma Informed Care. Over the last 4 years, she has been helping to train Iowa’s workforce in trauma informed practice and to prepare M.S.W. students through the trauma informed class.

Taylor Ford, M.S.W., L.I.S.W.
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Adjunct Instructor
Taylor Ford has a decade of experience providing concrete clinical social work services to clients struggling with a variety of mental health and substance use disorders. She has served in various settings and levels of care including outpatient, partial hospital, residential, psychiatric observation/emergency, acute inpatient, k12 schools, and higher education institutions.

Julie Fugenschuh, M.S.W.
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Adjunct Instructor

Denise Hagerla, L.I.S.W.
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Adjunct Instructor

Kimberly A. Hanrahan, M.S.W., L.M.S.W.
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Adjunct Instructor

Kerby Hanson
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Adjunct Instructor


Amanda Heeren, L.I.S.W.
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Adjunct Instructor
Amanda graduated from the UI School of Social Work with a BSW in 2007 and from the University of Northern Iowa with a macro-focused MSW in 2010. Amanda’s field experience is in crisis intervention, psychotherapy, and program design and evaluation in community and healthcare settings.

Tessa Heeren
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Adjunct Instructor

Michelle Heinz
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Adjunct Instructor

Misti Johnson, M.S.W., L.I.S.W.
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Adjunct Instructor
Johnson is a Visiting Professor and teaching for the School of Social Work from the Des Moines Learning Center.
She has rich and extensive experience in human services as a program developer, manager, and administrator. Her experience includes Director of Behavioral Health Services at ChildServe (Johnston, Iowa), Behavioral Health Clinical Operations Manager at AmeriHealth Caritas (Des Moines), and manager of Clinical Services for Magellan Healthcare (West Des Moines), as well as running a non-profit and human services consulting business for over a decade.

Heidi Kammer-Hodge
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Adjunct Instructor


Madison Kyle
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Adjunct Instructor
Amy Lemke, M.S.W., L.I.S.W., L.C.S.W.
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Adjunct Instructor
Amy Lemke is interested in conducting research in the area of end of life communication and advance care planning. She is currently working on a project evaluating the impact of a personalized goals of care communication tool on feelings of anxiety and depression experienced by individuals living with End Stage Renal Disease. She is also assisting Dr. Mercedes Bern-Klug with the Service Learning in Aging Studies course offered within the School of Social Work.

Megan Matthews
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Adjunct Instructor

Kellee McCrory
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Adjunct Instructor

Ron Mirr, M.S.W.
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Adjunct Instructor

Deborah L. Moeller, M.S.W., L.M.S.W.
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Adjunct Instructor

Pam Moore, M.S.W.
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Assistant Director, Dept. of Social Services, UI Healthcare
Adjunct Instructor

Jaret Morlan, L.I.S.W.
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Adjunct Instructor

Elias Ortiz
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Adjunct Instructor

Caitlyn Owens
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Adjunct Instructor

Jill Padgett
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Adjunct Instructor

Lars Peterson, M.S.W.
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Adjunct Instructor

Jenni Plathe
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Adjunct Instructor

Rebecca Putnam
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Adjunct Instructor


Brad Richardson, Ph.D.
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Adjunct Instructor
Research Director, NRCFCP
Research Scientist/Engineer

Wendy Rickman, L.I.S.W.
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Adjunct Instructor

Katie L. Ries, M.S.W., L.M.S.W.
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Adjunct Instructor
Palliative Care Social Work Specialist

Katie N. Russell
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Adjunct Instructor

Alecia Smith, M.S.W.
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Adjunct Instructor

Kelli Soyer
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Adjunct Instructor


Anne Ventullo, M.S.W., L.I.S.W.
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Adjunct Instructor