Assistant Professor

Dr. Sireen Irsheid is an Assistant Professor at NYU Silver School of Social Work. She is a clinician and critical race scholar whose research and practice focus on the complex interplay between race, education, mental health, and structural violence. Specifically, her work takes an interdisciplinary approach to examine and disrupt the multidimensional aspects of systemic racism and contextual processes that lead to mental health, education inequities, and the school prison nexus. Dr. Irsheid earned her PhD from the University of Chicago Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice, her MSW from Columbia University, and her BA in Clinical and Child Developmental Psychology from DePaul University. She is also a licensed clinical social worker and holds certificates in Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing Therapy, and Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and is the mental health lead of Klinic Kids, a non-profit that provides national innovative sports-based mental health training to professional coaches, school staff, and K-12 students.

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