Jenika Scott is a scholar-practitioner whose work bridges social development, public health, international development, and social justice through culturally grounded research, evaluation, and innovation. She holds a Master of Social Work from the University of Michigan and recently served as the Scholar-in-Residence at the Africana Institute at Essex County College. Her research draws from fieldwork in Brazil, India, and with immigrant and refugee communities in the United States, centering the lived experiences of marginalized populations particularly in Africa, the Caribbean, Latin America, and the Global South. Jenika uses Afrocentric, Indigenous, and participatory methodologies to co-create transformative, equity-focused solutions, and is also exploring the role of emerging technologies such as AI and human-computer interaction in advancing community-based learning and health equity.
Jenika Towana Scott
- Program: PhD in Social Work Student
- Preferred Pronouns: Her/ She
- Email: jenika@wustl.edu
Areas of Focus:
- Culturally adaptive research and evaluation, social policy and innovation, global public health
- International development in Latin America & Caribbean, Afrocentric and Indigenous methodologies
- Poverty and economic inequality, capacity and asset building, urban studies
- GIS mapping and placemaking, algorithmic equity and human-computer interaction