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Angie Kennedy, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
School of Social Work
Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI 48824
517-432-3724 phone
517-353-3038 fax
kenne258@msu.edu
Core Faculty > Angie Kennedy
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Dr. Kennedy is an assistant professor in the School of Social Work at Michigan State University. She has been committed to working to end violence against women since the late 1980s when she volunteered as a domestic violence advocate as an undergraduate.
Dr. Kennedy's work focuses on issues related to cumulative violence exposure among adolescents, particularly those who are pregnant and/or parenting. Using a risk and resilience approach grounded in intersectional feminist and ecological frameworks, her research examines exposure to community violence, witnessing parental violence, physical abuse by a parent, and intimate partner violence among pregnant and parenting adolescent women living in urban settings. She is especially interested in understanding the relationships between cumulative violence exposure and homelessness, school and mental health outcomes, and the processes of resilience within this population.
Dr. Kennedy is invested in using research to advance programmatic and social policy changes that will benefit pregnant and parenting adolescent women and the providers who work with them.