Rodgers, Selena

Professor and Chair
Program Chief Administrator and Founding Director, Master of Social Work Program
Social Work

Phone: 718-262-2626
Office Location: AC-3A11B
Email: srodgers@york.cuny.edu

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Dr. Selena T. Rodgers - author, educator, mentor, researcher, servant leader – is Professor and Chairperson of the Department of Social Work. Additionally, she is the Founding Director and Program Chief Administrator of the Master of Social Work (MSW) Program at CUNY York College, making her the inaugural leader of the first fully accredited graduate social work program in Queens County, New York. Dr. Rodgers is the first African American to hold this position in CUNY’s social work history. She also holds appointments as an Affiliate Professor in the PhD Social Welfare Program at the CUNY Graduate Center and as an alumna and evaluator for the U.S. Department of State Fulbright Specialist Program. As a nationally recognized leader in social work education, Dr. Rodgers has served as a certified Council on Social Work Education (CSWE) Board of Accreditation (BOA) Site Visitor since 2019. Her July 1, 2025, appointment as a member of the CSWE-BOA marks a historic milestone—she is the first person from York College’s 40-year-old social work program to hold this prestigious national position. Dr. Rodgers, a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW-R) with over three decades of extensive experience, earned her Ph.D. in Social Work from Adelphi University and an MSW from Syracuse University.

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Areas of Expertise

• Black Women: Violence as Historical Trauma- and Stressors
• Afrocentricity, Posttraumatic Growth, Womanism
• Higher Education: Leadership, Mentoring, Wellbeing
• Domestic and Global Social Work Administration

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