More from The Appeal:

Topics

Verticals

The Lab
Explainers, polling memos, white papers, and other original research from the nation’s top scholars and experts
The Point
Streaming opinion and analysis on the issues that keep everyday people up at night, produced in partnership with NowThis News
Appeal Live
An Editorial page for the social web, telling the story of how policy, politics, and the legal system shape the lives of everyday people in America
The Political Report
An editorial project that probes the local politics of mass incarceration and criminal justice reform.

The Lab

Podcasts

Newsletters

Nakia Winfield

Nakia Winfield, MSW is an antiracism workshop facilitator and political social worker who uses an interdisciplinary, anti-oppressive lens to examine power dynamics across social systems While at NASW-TX, she focused her research on the intersection of mental health and oppression using an antiracist lens. A Resource Trainer for the People’s Institute for Survival and Beyond, she recently co-chaired NASW’s Race Equity Accountability and Leadership committee, created to provide an antiracist lens through which social workers view their role in systems in Texas.

Articles by Nakia Winfield

People In Crisis Need Social Workers, Not Cops

Social Workers address crises regularly and without an armed police officer standing in front of us. Often, the presence of an armed officer escalates a crisis that could have been better handled by mental health professionals alone.

Vivianne Guevara, Nakia Winfield Jul 03, 2020

People in Crisis Need Social Workers, Not Cops

Vivianne Guevara, Nakia Winfield