Emma Heidorn
Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice
Emma Heidorn is a doctoral student at the Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice. Her primary area of interest is child and adolescent mental health, with a particular focus on newcomer refugee and immigrant well-being. She is interested in trauma-informed practices in schools and the development of pragmatic, novel, and culturally relevant school-based psychosocial supports in lower-resource settings. She is also interested in the social and environmental determinants of youth mental health and well-being, specifically within the urban space. Emma received an AM in Social Work from the University of Chicago and a BA in English from the University of Missouri-Columbia. She has worked as a teacher in the Middle East and a school-based clinical social worker in Chicago.