- education BA (Spanish and African American Studies), Washington University in St. Louis
MSW (Children, Youth, & Families; Macro focus), University of Pennsylvania
PhD (Social Work), Simmons College
Susan Brostrup-Jensen has worked in the field of domestic violence for many years. She has provided advocacy, counseling, legal support, and crisis intervention with survivors, helped to organize the faith community in the Blackstone Valley region to improve awareness of and support for survivors and families dealing with domestic violence, and her doctorate research focused on the decisions and strategies that women use in violent relationship drawing on resource theory. She has also worked on a three city study doing qualitative research looking at the impact of welfare reform on families of children with a disability. More recently, she has been an adjunct instructor at Regis College, Simmons College, and Wheelock College, and an Advisor for MSW students in the Worcester Off-Campus Program at Boston University.