Lauri GoldKind

Lauri Goldkind, PhD, LMSW is an associate professor at Fordham’s Graduate School of Social Service and the Editor in Chief of the Journal of Technology in Human Services. Goldkind’s is on a quest is to understand how digital technologies are changing life on earth and beyond. Dr. Goldkind’s current research has two strands: data justice and its practical applications for individuals and communities and information and communication technologies (ICT) tools in human services nonprofits. She has a robust network of community partners in New York City and internationally, including the International Federation of Settlement Houses, United Neighborhood Houses and Caritas Macau. She holds an M.S.W. from SUNY Stony Brook with a concentration in planning, administration, and research and a PhD from the Wurzweiler School of Social Work at Yeshiva University. Dr. Goldkind was in residence at the United Nations University Institute on Computing and Society, located in Macau, SAR, China from June to August 2017. Goldkind’s book, Digital Social Work, containing technology case studies for social workers, was edited with colleagues Lea Wolf and Paul Freddolino and published by Oxford University Press in 2018. She is a network co-lead for the Grand Challenges in Social Work on Harnessing Technology for the Social Good.