Chidimma Ozor Commer, Phd, Lmsw Email & Phone Number

Ann Arbor, Mi, Us

Ann Arbor, Michigan, Us

This role encompasses two main areas of expertise: (1) wellness, wellbeing, and mental health; (2) diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging. I have an opportunity to support graduate students in the School of Public Health, specifically in two departments: Biostatistics and Epidemiology.

Ann Arbor, Michigan, Us

• Initiated and implemented online educational series, School’s In Session Educational Series, with two (2) colleagues during the COVID-19 global pandemic to address social work skills that our cohort had not yet learned.• Developed educational series, School’s In Session Educational Series, curriculum in collaboration with two (2) colleagues.• Taught and facilitated three (3) sessions for the educational series, School’s In Session Educational Series, and evaluated the educational series with a post-session evaluation. Also taught and facilitated a webinar with Ugandan powerhouse, No White Saviors, on the white savior complex.

Ann Arbor, Michigan, Us

• Worked closely with faculty instructor on all facets of the course in order to meet student needs.• Taught discussion sections to first year and second year undergraduate students.• Developed weekly lessons and homework incorporating various educational platforms and mediums.• Was responsible for grading assignments: weekly homework, papers, quizzes, and exams.• Assisted with the development of exams.• Met with students individually during office hours.• Met with fellow graduate student instructors to discuss teaching methods.• Evaluated and mentored undergraduate students.

Ann Arbor, Michigan, Us

+ Facilitate equitable recruitment and retention of diverse faculty via various programs.+ Support professional development for faculty.+ Evaluate programs.

• Provide evidence-based psychotherapy and mindfulness practices for clients utilizing a holistic, strength-based approach to come alongside them as they heal and continue to grow in their self-determination.• Special focus on Black women, Black people, and LGBTQ+ community members.

• Teaches anti-racism, anti-oppression, diversity, equity, and inclusion training to police departments, churches, schools, nonprofits, recovery and treatment communities, and other entities that have a desire to engage or re-engage with their communities.

• Researches and conducts interviews with local, state, national and global thought leaders on weekly social justice podcast on various topics related to public policy, self-care, higher education, diversity, equity and inclusion and also including issues that carry significant stigma like substance use disorder, domestic violence (intimate partner violence) and sexual assault, and mental illness.• Works with different populations within various communities representing a multitude of diverse identities.• Writes newsletter, online blog posts and articles on the aforementioned topics.• Provides anatomy and physiology course instruction and development for yoga teacher trainings nationwide.

• Teaches anatomy and physiology course/module, averaging 10-60 students per training, covering the following topics: anatomy, physiology, benefits of various yoga poses, locks, atom to organism overview, skeletal system, muscular system, types of joints, parasympathetic and sympathetic nerves.• Develops quizzes, exams, and homework.• Revises the syllabus to meet accreditation standards.• Coordinates grading and labs with a team of four teaching assistants and the founder of the yoga teacher training.

Boston, Massachusetts, Us

• Triaged all support tickets and answered and/or routed to appropriate internal teams.• Member of Practice Operations team and managed several internal projects simultaneously for various departments that added value to company.• Had great familiarity with medical terminology and worked with Electronic Medical Record (EMR) and patient portal.• Communicated on a wide-range of sensitive topics with physicians, team members and patients.

Ann Arbor, Michigan, Us

• Conducted 1:1 evaluations and led focus groups of graduate and professional students to access their needs in order to assistUniversity schools and colleges with providing focused resources and support for them; reported findings to the Vice President of Student Life.• Reviewed and evaluated embedded programs with University schools and colleges by speaking with Deans, Directors andStudent Life coordinators; provided written categorization of research findings and comprehensive assessments.• Worked in collaborative role with respective University schools and colleges based on reported findings of systemic issues and made recommendations for system changes after critical analysis of current system.

Boston, Massachusetts, Us

Patient Care & Communication• Managed patient panel of 250-300 diverse and multicultural patients with multiple, chronic health conditions. Management included teaching patients about their conditions and illnesses, coordinating follow up care in clinic, facilitating care across multiple specialty providers, home and hospital visits, accompanying patients to appointments.Program Development• Regularly interfaced with sponsor (benefit administrator), Nest (headquarters) team, visitors/guests, vendors, investors, outsourcers and others.• Implemented and conducted trainings on several new programs and initiatives. Project Coordination• Managed several complex projects simultaneously for various departments that added value to practice and company including leading and coordinating several team-building activities and was a consultant for team retreats and both all-Iora retreats (AIR).Professional & Leadership Development• Continuously invested in furthering clinical education.• Worked as group leader manager, managing other group leaders and provided administration support forgroup leaders.• Tasked to lead and coordinate case management program and create a major component, an assessment ofgroup classes offered along with the impact for the annual report for Board of Directors meeting.

Henderson, Nevada, Us

• Taught yoga classes and provided yoga therapy and trauma-sensitive yoga instruction. • Provided aromatherapy and essential oil therapy as well.

Ann Arbor, Michigan, Us

• Tasked with coding and categorizing open-ended data from longitudinal studies that were used during U.S. Supreme Court cases.• Assisted with the design and development of qualitative and quantitative study instrumentation.• Prepared tables, graphs, figures and comprehensive reports for local and national dissemination of researchfindings and conference presentations.• Helped facilitate the move from hard-copy surveys to online surveys for online survey administration.• Maintained databases and performed data entry.• Assisted with the presentation of research findings and recommendations to University administrators.

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Global Inclusion And Social Development

Master Of Social Work - Msw, Interpersonal Practice, In Health

Master Of Arts (Ma), Liberal Studies

Bachelor Of Arts (Ba), Organizational Studies