Cecily
Mitchell-Harper
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Cecily Mitchell-Harper •
Director, Knowledge & Learning
More about Cecily
Cecily is a NYS Licensed Social Worker with a passion and specialty for integrating research into practice, with a particular focus on developing transformative practices and processes to support programs that serve racially marginalized youth and families. She practices with an anti-oppressive, anti-racist and decolonial lens.
Cecily received her BA in Psychology from Wesleyan University, and her MSW from the University of Pennsylvania, School of Social Policy and Practice. As a seasoned Licensed Social Worker, Cecily has extensive experience practicing in various settings, including schools, human service organizations and research centers. Cecily has clinical experience providing trauma-informed therapeutic services to children and families including those involved in the child-welfare system. Additionally, Cecily has several years of experience providing technical assistance and evaluation expertise to strengthen program capacity and inform programmatic decision making in youth-serving nonprofit organizations, utilizing an anti-oppressive, racial equity lens.
In addition to her work at SSN, Cecily provides professional development training, coaching and consultation services to youth serving nonprofit organizations and the National Association of Social Workers (NASW). Her areas of expertise include creating healing centered organizational practices and cultures to support holistic wellbeing, supporting direct service staff in their own healing from secondary/vicarious trauma and utilizing a continuous improvement framework to support institutional change. Furthermore, Cecily presents at various professional conferences and events, has served as an Adjunct Lecturer at NYU Silver School of Social Work and is a Certified Field Instructor for graduate Social Work students.
Feel free to learn more about Cecily and/or connect with her via LinkedIn.
Hear from Cecily
We asked: You’re a new addition to the crayon box. What color would you be and why?
Cecily answered: As a new addition to a crayon box, I would spice the colors up with Pink-based Coral. Coral is a soft and grounding shade, and serves as an accent that commands attention among muted and neutral colors. Coral personally is my favorite color. I gravitate towards Coral because it reflects who I am and how I seek to show up in the world. I seek to be a grounding presence with a quiet, solid strength. Additionally, while my personality is not “loud” like those of more fluorescent colors, I do command attention in my own subtle yet powerful way.