Jeane W. Anastas, PhD, LMSW
President

E. Jane Middleton, DSW, MSW
Vice President

Jane Middleton, DSW, MSW, (California Chapter), is the Director and faculty member of the Social Work Education Program at California State University, Fresno. Middleton received her BSW and MSW degrees from Temple University and her DSW from the University of Pennsylvania.

Active in NASW since 1988, Middleton has become more involved with the Association since relocating to California. Her past chapter leadership positions include President (2006-08), Board Member (2004-06) and Delegate (2005).

Currently, Middleton is an appointed member of the Foster Care Oversight Committee for Fresno County; a member of the Board of California State Social Work Education Center (CalSWEC); a member of and past Board Member of the National Association of Deans and Directors of Schools of Social Work (NADD); and a member and past International Committee member of the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE).

Middleton has received Certificates and Plaques of Appreciation from the Latino Social Work Network; Santa Rosa Rancheria; NADD; CADD: Title I-VE Child Welfare and a Certificate of Recognition from the California State Assembly.

Lawanna R. Barron, LCSW, ACSW
Board Secretary

Lawanna R. Barron, LCSW, ACSW, (Georgia Chapter) practices with military families to prevent child and spouse abuse. She has worked in the Moody Air Force Base Family Advocacy Program since 1993, currently as family advocacy outreach manager and a collateral duty equal employment opportunity counselor. Barron received her MSW from the University of Georgia.

Barron has been active in NASW and other community organizations and boards.  She helped to start the South Georgia Unit, served as president of the Georgia Chapter and delegate to the Delegate Assembly. She also served as Region VI representative to NASW’s Board of Directors, and is a former trustee of the NASW Legal Defense Service Board. She was honored by the Georgia Chapter as Social Worker of the Year in 2003 and has received numerous awards and recognitions from the community and her employer.

Barron’s interests include child abuse, spouse abuse, multiculturalism, ethics, and, recently, achieving balance as a professional social worker.

Mary L. McCarthy, PhD, LMSW
Treasurer

Mary L. McCarthy, PhD, LMSW, (New York State Chapter) is Director of the New York State Social Work Education Consortium and Co-Principal Investigator for the National Child Welfare Workforce Institute (NCWWI), a Service of the Children’s Bureau. Both are focused on workforce professionalization and leadership development in the field of child welfare.

A faculty member at the University at Albany, School of Social Welfare since 1988, McCarthy worked in the child welfare field for 11 years both before and after receiving her MSW from the University at Albany in 1982. She received her PhD in 2003, awarded with distinction, from Memorial University, Newfoundland Canada.

McCarthy was previously on the NASW Board as the Region III Representative. She also served on the National Committee for Nominations and Leadership Identification (NCNLI), Political Action for Candidate Election (PACE), and was President of the New York State Chapter.

McCarthy is a member of the National Indian Child Welfare Association, Council on Social Work Education, Society for Social Work and Research, and Child Welfare League of America. She received the SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Professional Service and the University at Albany President’s Award for Excellence in Professional Service, as well as Social Worker of the Year from the Northeast Division.

Eleni A. Carr, MBA, LICSW
Region Representative I [ME, MA, NH, RI, VT]

Susan Bair Egan, PhD, MSW
Region Representative II [CT, NYC]

Daria Hanssen, PhD, LCSW
Region Representative III [NYS]

Daria Hanssen, PhD, LCSW (New York State Chapter) has served as the Director of the Baccalaureate Social Work Program at Marist College since 2001. She completed her PhD at the Hunter College School of Social Work, Graduate Center of City University, in 2003 and her MSW at Florida State University in 1978. Hanssen has provided direct service in the fields of children and family mental health, child welfare and family preservation and has ongoing research interests in these arenas as well as social work pedagogy.

Enrico DeGironimo, MSW, ACSW, LCSW
Region Representative IV [NJ, PA]

Enrico (Rick) DeGironimo, LCSW, ACSW (New Jersey Chapter) is the CEO of Ocean Partnership for Children, Inc., a non-profit serving children and adolescents with behavioral challenges, and their families.  For more than twenty years, DeGironimo has held a series of executive leadership positions in organizations supporting and advocating for individuals with developmental disabilities and serious mental illness.   

A graduate of Rutgers University, he doubled majored and received a BA in sociology and economics.   He then went on to receive his MSW in community organization and planning, from Rutgers School of Social Work.  Later, while working at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, DeGironimo completed a three year post master’s certificate in Family Therapy. 

DeGironimo is an active member of NASW-NJ, having served on the Chapter Committee for Nominations and Leadership Identification, Political Action for Candidate Election (PACE), and the Continuing Education, Finance, and Community Relations committees.  Additionally, he was elected and served as a unit chairperson, President-Elect, and President for NASW-NJ.  DeGironimo is also the recipient of the NASW-NJ President’s Award. 

Sheryl Brissett-Chapman, EdD, ACSW
Region Representative V [DE, MD, DC, VA, NC]

Anna M. Scheyett, PhD, MSW, LCSW
Region Representative VI [AL, FL, GA, SC, VI, PR]

Paula D. Foster, LCSW
Region Representative VII [IN, OH, TN, WV, MS]

Paula D. Foster, LCSW (Tennessee Chapter) has worked in many fields including HIV/AIDS, mental health, and health care.  She is currently a therapist in the Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder program at the Veterans Administration Medical Center in Nashville and an adjunct instructor/field liaison at Tennessee State University and formerly at the University of Tennessee schools of social work.  In addition, Foster is an adjunct instructor at Vanderbilt University in the School of Nursing, a faculty member in the Vanderbilt Program in Inter-Professional Learning, and a trainer for NASW-TN and NASW's national Spectrum Project. Foster received her BSW from Louisiana College and her MSW from Hunter College in New York City.
Since 2005, Foster has been actively involved in chapter leadership positions serving as a branch chair, Board President and professional issues representative.  She also served as a delegate for the 2008 Delegate Assembly.  In addition, Foster is a member of the Tennessee Conference on Social Welfare and the Nashville Psychotherapy Institute.
As a member of NASW in Tennessee, Foster co-chaired the task force seeking a sweeping overhaul to Tennessee’s licensing law related to social work practice, bringing together social workers from across the state and various levels of practice, to craft recommendations for legislative revisions.  As a result, she was honored, along with her task force co-chair, as NASW-TN’s 2011 Social Worker of the Year.

Ellen Bartley, PhD, LICSW, LMSW
Region Representative VIII [MI, WI]

Ellen Bartley, PhD, LICSW (Michigan Chapter) earned her BSW and MSW, with a clinical concentration, at Wayne State University.  After moving to Washington, DC, she began working with homeless individuals who were diagnosed with serious and persistent mental illness.  Two years later, she entered a doctoral program at The Catholic University of America School of Social Work where she earned a PhD.  Bartley continued to work for many years with those who had serious mental illness in a community mental health setting.  For the past two years, she has worked in employee assistance and prevention programs working with military families.  Bartley recently moved back to Michigan and plans to resume work at in a community mental health setting.  She is also working on a Certificate in Public Health at the University of Michigan.

Kathryn Wehrmann, PhD, LSW
Region Representative IX [IL, IA, International, KY]

Kathryn Wehrmann, PhD, LSW, (Illinois Chapter) is an associate professor at the Illinois State University School of Social Work in Normal, Illinois where she has been on the faculty since 1998.  Prior to becoming a social work educator, Wehrmann worked for the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services (IDCFS) in casework and resource development.  She received her BS in education, MSW, and PhD degrees from the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign.  She has been President and a District Chair of NASW-IL, and most recently served as the Chair of the 2011 NASW-IL Statewide Conference. 

Dr. Wehrmann’s teaching responsibilities focus on field education and program evaluation courses that keep her in close touch with human service agencies and programs. Her research and service efforts include work with the IDCFS Supervisory Training to Enhance Practice Program and evaluation of the Illinois Division of Mental Health’s Evidence Based Practice Treatment Initiative. She has been the recipient of a Senior Fulbright Scholarship to carry out research and teach at the University of Bucharest in Romania and continues to conduct research there focused on the continuing development of the social work profession. Wehrmann serves on the board of The Baby Fold, a large private sector child welfare agency in Normal, Illinois, and volunteers as a social worker at a community health clinic for individuals without insurance.  Wehrmann is a licensed social worker in Illinois and a member of the Fulbright Association.

Gerald "Herb" Grandbois, PhD, MSW
Region Representative X [AK, KS, MN, MO, NE, ND, OK, NM, SD]

Josephine P. Tittsworth, LMSW
Region Representative XI [AZ, LA, TX]

Josephine P. Tittsworth, LMSW (Texas Chapter), retired from IBM after 30 years of service. She is in the PhD program at the Graduate College of Social Work University of Houston (UH). She received her BSW (2006) at the University of Houston-Clear Lake and her MSW (2007) at the GCSW-UH. In 2005 she served on the NASW-TX Board of Directors as the BSW representative. She chairs the NASW-TX Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender (GLBT) Equity Committee and is a member of the NASW LGBT Issues Committee. For seven years she served on the Board of Directors for the Society for the Second Self, Inc (TRIESS) as director of Chapter Networking and Support; she chaired the Houston Transgender Unity Committee for five years; she is on the Board of Directors of the following nonprofit organizations: National Transgender Advocacy Coalition and Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbian And Gays-Transgender Network (West Sector Coordinator). 

Lawrence “Larry” Betcher, MSW, LCSW, CADC I
Region Representative XII [AK, CO, GU, HI, ID, MT, NV, OR, UT, WA, WY]

Lawrence “Larry” Betcher, MSW, LCSW, CADC I, (Oregon Chapter) received his MSW degree from Boston University’s School of Social Work and is a licensed clinical social worker who has practiced in a number of clinical settings, including psychiatric hospitals and outpatient mental health clinics. He currently runs the Psychiatric Security Review Board program at Providence Portland Medical Center. Larry has served on the NASW Oregon Chapter Board of Directors and Finance Committee and is a recent past president of the chapter. He was awarded the 2009 Providence Spirit of Emilie Mission Medal, a distinguished honor given to outstanding members of Providence Portland Medical Center who inspire others to exemplify the Providence mission. In addition, Larry is a field instructor for the School of Social Work at Portland State University and provides clinical supervision to MSWs working towards licensure.

Victor A. Manalo, PhD, MSW
Region Representative XIII [CA]

Teri L. Cardwell
Member-at-Large

Robin Sakina Mama, PhD, MSW
Member-at-Large

Robin Sakina Mama, PhD, MSW, (New Jersey Chapter) is dean of the School of Social Work at Monmouth University, West Long Branch, New Jersey. She received her master of social service, master of law and social policy, and PhD in social work and social research from Bryn Mawr College.

For 10 years she worked at the Philadelphia Area Project on Occupational Safety and Health, where she was responsible for providing technical assistance to unions on workers compensation, contract language for health and safety, and right-to-know information.

At Monmouth, she teaches in the International and Community Development concentration of the MSW program. She has been a member of NASW-NJ for over 15 years and is past chair of the International Committee of NASW. She represents the International Federation of Social Workers at the United Nations and serves on the Editorial Board of Social Work Education: The International Journal.  

Anita Doberman
MSW Student Member

Anita Doberman, (Florida Chapter) has been a free-lance journalist for the past seven years. She has covered human interest stories with a focus on marginalized groups and homelessness and reported on policy and legal issues with traditional outlet and social/visual media. Until recently, Doberman was the co-director of outreach and social media for military families, wounded warriors, and veterans for the non-profit organization Blue Star Families.

Doberman conducts research with La Repubblica Ragazzi, an Italian juvenile rehabilitation center in Rome, Italy, on multiculturalism among immigrants to urban areas and effective intervention practices with immigrants’ adolescent children entering high school.

Doberman belongs to the NASW, Council on Social Work Education (CSWE), and National Military Family Association (NMFA). She has been awarded the FSU Endowed scholarship for 2012, the volunteer award from Covenant Hospice, and the volunteer of the year award with Meals-on-Wheels. She currently attends the University of Maryland where she is pursuing an MSW degree.