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Melissa McCollister
Melissa McCollister
has spent over 18 years teaching macro practice social work in academia and has had the honor of working with thousands of students from areas throughout Ohio, Indiana, and Iowa. She is skilled in the macro practice areas of community capacity building, grant writing, fund-raising, research, policy, and program evaluation. As an assistant professor of social work at Grand View University in Des Moines, IA, she primarily teaches macro practice social work courses on topics such as community and organizational practice, diversity, equity, and inclusion, program evaluation and research, and social policy analysis. Her interest areas include LGBTQ+ advocacy, racial and social justice community capacity building, emotional intelligence, and trauma-informed healing practice. Dr. McCollister's teaching philosophy follows a critical pedagogy based on transformational philosophers such as bell hooks and Paulo Freire. Her research focus includes an examination of a critical Black feminist pedagogy as an approach to diversity and difference and racial and social justice competencies in social work practice. In addition to her role as a university professor, she also serves as Chair of the Criminal Justice Committee for the Cedar Rapids, IA branch of the NAACP and is a lifetime NAACP member.
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