Lecturers M. Emilia Bianco and Chloe Frankel Join BUSSW Faculty
Boston University School of Social Work (BUSSW) has hired two new full-time lecturers to its faculty: M. Emilia Bianco, PhD, who will join the Macro Department, and Chloe Frankel, MSW, LICSW, who will join the Clinical Department.
Bianco is a researcher and educator specializing in immigrant families and global humanitarian relief work. She earned her PhD in Social Work in 2019 from Boston College where she also taught as an adjunct professor and conducted post-doctoral research. Her dissertation, titled “Mothering, Migrating and Seeking Asylum,” explored the “transbordering experiences, maternal practices and well-being of Central American mothers traveling with their children.”
As a macro practitioner engaged in global social work, Bianco has worked with communities in the United States, Latin America and Africa. She was born in Argentina and completed her bachelor’s and master’s degrees at Universidad Austral before moving to Boston, where she worked with Boston College’s Center for Human Rights and International Justice and Oxfam, and collaborated in action and research projects with Casa El Salvador, Techo, de Novo, RIAN and other local and international nonprofits. Bianco has also developed and taught courses in community partnerships in research, global social work, and program evaluation at Boston College and Loyola University Chicago.
Frankel, a licensed independent clinical social worker, has been a part-time lecturer and facilitator at BUSSW since 2017. She is also a facilitator and content developer at The City School/Boston Liberation Health where she is currently working with the City of Boston and BUSSW colleagues Dawn Belkin Martinez and Linda Sprague Martinez to develop a community-led design for an alternative mental health crisis response program that would not involve police.
Frankel has served as an assistant director of programs and clinical program manager at Friends of the Children’s Boston branch, and has experience providing clinical assessment, treatment, crisis intervention and therapy as a clinician for children and families and a social services advocate.