Bio
Dr. Lausell Bryant’s work at NYU Silver focuses on building the capacity of social work students to exercise leadership in the human services sector to have a transformative impact on pressing social challenges. Her career spans 30 years in youth services in the private and public sectors. Dr. Lausell Bryant has introduced the Adaptive Leadership framework into the social work curriculum at NYU Silver, including the launch of an Adaptive Leadership Fellowship program and the introduction of new graduate and doctoral level courses grounded in the framework.
Prior to joining the NYU faculty, Dr. Lausell Bryant served as the Executive Director of Inwood House for nine years. She served as associate commissioner for the Office of Youth Development at the NYC Administration for Children’s Services. She was appointed by NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg to the New York City Panel for Education Policy. Dr. Lausell Bryant was featured in New York Times journalist Adam Bryant’s Corner Office column in May 2011, and her insights were featured in Mr. Bryant’s book titled Quick & Nimble: Lessons from Leading CEO’s on How to Create a Culture of Innovation. She has been a frequent presenter on panels, conferences, and television including WABC’s Tiempo, Here and Now, One to One with Sheryl McCarthy, and NY1. She was honored by the New York Academy of Medicine in 2009 as the Distinguished Social Work Student and was named a National Gimbel Child and Family Scholar.
Dr. Lausell Bryant received her B.A. degree from Pace University, her M.S.W. degree from the Hunter College School of Social Work, and her Ph.D from New York University’s Silver School of Social Work. Her dissertation study compared the amounts and sources of perceived social support for college-going between foster care and non-foster care students. Her most recent collaborative publication is a book that focuses on sustaining conversations on racism and identity and how these issues manifest in the classroom.
