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Dr. Brady joined the faculty at WMU in 2023, after spending 9 years at the University of Oklahoma. Dr. Brady received his Ph.D. from Virginia Commonwealth University in 2012, his MSW degree from the University of ¾ÅÒ»Â鶹ÖÆƬ³§ in 2008, and his BSW degree from Eastern ¾ÅÒ»Â鶹ÖÆƬ³§ University in 2007. Dr. Brady’s practice experience takes place across the micro-macro continuum. Dr. Brady has worked in the areas of HIV/AIDS, substance abuse and harm reduction, community mental health, and housing and homelessness. Additionally, Dr. Brady is a longtime community organizer with experience working in diverse and high-need communities around neighborhood-level capacity building, youth participation, and positive youth development, eliminating the school-to-prison pipeline, and post-Katrina restorative justice. Dr. Brady learned community organizing through his time in Detroit and surrounding southeast ¾ÅÒ»Â鶹ÖÆƬ³§ communities, along with learning from pioneers of the Freedom Tradition of civil rights organizing in Mississippi. Dr. Brady’s research emphasizes community practice, community-engaged and participatory forms of research, youth work, critical theories, social work education, and social media and technology.