Anna Jesseman is a clinician and consultant with the MedStar Georgetown Center for Wellbeing in School Environments (WISE Center) and a member of the Georgetown School of Medicine faculty in the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. Her clinical focus is on teacher well-being and trauma-informed teaching practices. She is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker in the District of Columbia, Maryland, and Virginia and holds master’s degrees in Social Work from Columbia University and the Science of Teaching from Pace University. She is presently a doctoral candidate at the University of Edinburgh, Moray House of Education. Her research interest is on the distal impact of adult educator wellbeing interventions on student socio-emotional capacity. Anna has worked to support students and teachers throughout her career, both as a school social worker, teacher, administrator, and clinical psychotherapist both locally and internationally. She began her career as a Teach For America Corps Member teaching Middle School Special Education at CIS 339 in the South Bronx.
tags: Blog: A conversation with Anna Jesseman on global innovations in teacher and student mental health