{"id":73010,"date":"2025-10-08T16:46:05","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T20:46:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/?p=73010"},"modified":"2026-02-20T11:31:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T16:31:14","slug":"prof-lenette-azzi-lessing-selected-national-racial-equity-scholars-residence-program-cwla","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/prof-lenette-azzi-lessing-selected-national-racial-equity-scholars-residence-program-cwla\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor Lenette Azzi-Lessing Selected to the National Racial Equity Scholars in Residence Program for CWLA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The Child Welfare League of America (CWLA) has named<\/span> Dr. <span data-contrast=\"auto\">Lenette Azzi-Lessing, a clinical professor at BU School of Social Work (BUSSW), to be a National Racial Equity Scholar in Residence. Professor Azzi-Lessing is a longtime advocate for the development of innovative strategies, resources, and initiatives that help dismantle barriers and promote equity within and around child welfare systems across the nation and internationally.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:false,&quot;134233118&quot;:false,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:1,&quot;335551620&quot;:1,&quot;335559685&quot;:0,&quot;335559737&quot;:0,&quot;335559738&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:279}\"> As a scholar in residence, Professor Azzi-Lessing will play a pivotal role in advancing issues in child welfare, identifying promising strategies, synthesizing concerns on the national landscape, and providing information, ideas, and scholarly input for CWLA&#8217;s programmatic, education and advocacy efforts. Her <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">work will advance racial equity and justice-centered research that supports CWLA&#8217;s policy, practice, and education priorities<\/span><span>,<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> while broadly promoting racial equity and justice across child welfare-related research, policy, and practice.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The CWLA addresses systemic inequities that persist within child welfare, to foster a diverse and inclusive environment and better help children and families to flourish.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">Learn more about Professor\u00a0 Azzi-Lessing&#8217;s Research<\/span><\/a><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Child Welfare League of America (CWLA) has named Dr. Lenette Azzi-Lessing, a clinical professor at BU School of Social Work (BUSSW), to be a National Racial Equity Scholar in Residence. Professor Azzi-Lessing is a longtime advocate for the development of innovative strategies, resources, and initiatives that help dismantle barriers and promote equity within and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25047,"featured_media":44867,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7547,7513,7427],"tags":[],"profile-tax":[7891],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73010"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25047"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73010"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73010\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74371,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73010\/revisions\/74371"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73010"},{"taxonomy":"profile-tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile-tax?post=73010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}