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Ozioma Aloziem

Affiliate Faculty

Social Work

Bio

Ozioma (Ozy) Aloziem, Founder and Principal Advisor of HEAL INC LLC, is an Igbo social worker situated at the intersection of multiple ways of knowing. She is a TEDx speaker and an award-winning Igbo social worker deeply committed to collective liberation, racial justice, and healing. She is a well-regarded skilled facilitator & speaker and has served as a racial equity & racial healing consultant for numerous organizations across the nation and globe. Ozy was the Denver Public Library's first Equity, Diversity & Inclusion Manager during which time she was named a 2021 Library Journal “Movers & Shakers” award winner for her racial equity research and advocacy.

Research Interests

Presently, my research is centered around healing-centered organizational cultures, shared trauma, historical trauma, radical healing, and radical imagination.

Teaching Interests

I am a social work scholar and professor that is deeply committed to embodied learning. I prioritize liberation, radical imagination and healing in my teaching, scholarship, and activism. I use this focus to amplify the voices of communities that have been marginalized and left on the fringes of research, public policy, and global conversation.

Office Hours

Appointment only