Biographical Notes

• Dr. Barker has been teaching at ENC since 2000, and began full-time in 2002. She has social work experience with the Department of Social Services in Kansas City, MO, as counselor and case manager in a residential program for pregnant and parenting teens in Biddeford, ME, and as an adoption home study caseworker in southern Maine. She is licensed as an independent clinical social worker (LICSW) in Massachusetts, and she completed her Ph.D. in social welfare at the Mandel School of Applied Social Science at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, OH in 2008. Her research interests center around the integration of spirituality and social work. She is a 2005 recipient of ENC's Teaching Excellence Award, and a 2010 recipient of ENC's Professional Achievement Award.
  
  At ENC, Dr. Barker is faculty advisor to the Student Association of Social Workers. She has served in the past as advisor to the Students for Social Justice. She currently serves on the Multicultural Affairs Committee and the Tenure Review Committee.
  

Education

• Ph.D., Mandel School of Applied Social Science at Case Western Reserve University

• MSW, University of Missouri-Columbia School of Social Work

• BA in Social Work, Eastern Nazarene College