Session: Navigating Systems and Crises: Lived Experiences of SGM Communities (Society for Social Work and Research 30th Annual Conference Anniversary)

Schedule:

Saturday, January 17, 2026: 8:00 AM-9:30 AM

Mint, ML 4 (Marriott Marquis Washington DC)

Cluster: Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity

* noted as presenting author

Conducting Community-Engaged Research amid Heightened Anti-Migrant Rhetoric: Insights from a Mixed-Methods Study with Latino Sexual Minority Migrant Men
Edward Alessi, PhD, Rutgers University; Gabriel Robles, PhD, LCSW, University of Southern California; Michael Zuch, MSW, Rutgers University

Enduring the Everyday: Necropolitics and the Lived Experiences of LGBTQ+ Asylum Seekers
Michael Zuch, MSW, LCSW, Rutgers University; Lillian Alexander, LCSW, Rutgers University; Roei Hillel, LCSW, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Edward Alessi, PhD, Rutgers University

Mental Health Implications of an Initial HIV Diagnosis: A Narrative Inquiry
Javier Segovia, PhD, H.E.R.O. Lab; Eden Robles, PhD, Our Lady of the Lake University

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