Susan James Joins FrameWorks Institute Fellows
September 8, 2008 — The FrameWorks Institute has named Susan James, Ph.D., a community psychologist with extensive experience in national research demonstration projects, documentary film production and digital design technology, as a Fellow.
Susan will contribute to the work of the institute in three critical areas: (1) in designing evaluation techniques to more systematically capture the impact of FrameWorks’ research and practice on the field, (2) in integrating research results into FrameWorks’ online technology, and (3) in documenting the results of the Institute’s first decade of practice on the practice of communications for social change.
She has held senior research positions at Cornell Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York University, Chapin Hall Center for Children of the University of Chicago, and CASA at Columbia University. With a focus on cultural ecologies, and the contextualization of social conditions, her work examines the mental health effects of exposure to multiple levels of violence, racism and inequality on vulnerable populations. She is executive producer of Return, a documentary film about traditional African medicine. She has taught at Sarah Lawrence College and the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
Susan earned a bachelor's degree from Sarah Lawrence College and a Ph.D. from New York University.
