Katharine R. Hobart

Katharine R. Hobart, PhD, MSW, LCSW, is a long-standing practitioner, researcher and professor of community practice social work. Dr. Hobart was a Fulbright Scholar in Uganda teaching at the first Masters of Social Work program in East Africa and conducting action-based research with rural elders. Over her career Dr. Hobart has run a federally-funded administration on aging intervention/ research grant empowering frail elders, lived in Guatemala while working with a women’s microcredit organization, and has practiced clinical social work in urban hospitals.  She has consulted and lectured on program development, participatory monitoring/evaluation, and global aging issues in Malawi, Rwanda, Uganda, Guatemala, Japan, the UK ,and the U.S.