Angie Wootton

Angie Wootton

Assistant Professor
College of Integrated Health Sciences
School of Social Welfare

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Education

PhD Social Welfare, University of California, Berkeley, 2023

MSW, San Jose State University, 2017

BA, Community Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz, 2011

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About

Angie Wootton is an Assistant Professor in the School of Social Welfare and Affiliated Faculty of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University at Albany, SUNY. Wootton’s mixed methods research focuses primarily on characterizing and seeking remedies to persistent mental health and behavioral health disparities in the LGBTQ+ community, primarily among sexual minority women, transgender and gender expansive people, and those experiencing multiple intersecting forms of stigma, discrimination, and exclusion based on sex, gender, sexuality, and other related characteristics and identities. This work takes a strengths, resilience, and trauma recovery focus to identify and promote pathways to holistic wellbeing for multiply marginalized LGBTQ+ people, especially uplifting forms of LGBTQ+ community support, peer mental health support, and mutual aid. Wootton’s teaching and practice interests also include anti-oppressive social work practice, trauma-informed practice, motivational interviewing, liberatory harm reduction, social policy analysis, medical social work, and telehealth. Prior to working in academia, Wootton had a direct practice career as a case manager, counselor, and social worker in settings such as homeless shelters, transitional and permanent supported housing, community-based mental health programs, HIV/AIDS and LGBTQ organizations, and hospitals in California.