Dr. Ryan R. Lindsay, EdD, MSW, LCSW, DBT-LBC, is a Professor of Practice and Mental Health Concentration Chair at the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis. His work focuses on preparing the behavioral health workforce through advanced clinical education, implementation science, and community-engaged training models.
Dr. Lindsay’s scholarship centers on suicide prevention, intervention, and postvention policy and practice across schools, healthcare, and community systems. He partners with state and community stakeholders to strengthen policy infrastructure and translate evidence-based practices into real-world implementation. His work emphasizes the development and evaluation of interventions that can be delivered by trained non-professionals or interdisciplinary teams working in collaboration with licensed clinicians to expand access to behavioral health supports.
He is also a leader in integrating artificial intelligence into clinical social work education. He is the co-developer of Empathy Helper, an AI-supported simulation platform designed to help students and professionals build interviewing, empathy, and clinical decision-making skills through structured, competency-aligned practice.
In parallel, Dr. Lindsay leads initiatives focused on behavioral health workforce wellbeing, examining strategies to improve recruitment, retention, and sustainability of youth-serving and community-based providers.
Barry Rosenberg’s passion is human service excellence. He prepares graduates and current professionals to skillfully manage and lead human service organizations which improve lives, build communities and transform society.
Rosenberg teaches courses in leadership, management, organizational behavior and the innovative Brown Consulting. Rosenberg also leads executive education, having designed and taught CEO Seminar: Building an Effective Fundraising Organization, Inside the CEO, for senior managers preparing to advance their careers, and Building a High Performing Governing Board. His scholarly work focuses on leadership, nonprofit board governance, professional development, and the application of social work knowledge and skills to Jewish organizations and fundraising.
Rosenberg will lead the Center for Human Services Leadership as part of the Delmar DivINe co-location facility, opening in early 2021. The Center will conduct education, applied research and convenings to support organizational capacity in the St. Louis region.
Previously, Rosenberg completed a 37-year career in non-profit leadership, culminating as CEO of the Jewish Federation of St. Louis – the Jewish community’s central fundraising, planning and community building organization. He was a nationally recognized advocate and innovator in efforts to develop and strengthen the professional workforce of Jewish human service agencies and created the Millstone Institute for Leadership Development.
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Dalychia Saah is a sexuality educator, writer, and speaker who facilitates space for people to connect more deeply with their desires for their body, relationships, life and the world. She is passionate about helping people unlearn oppressive norms that keep them from moving toward a more liberated way of being.
Saah is the co-founder of Afrosexology, a pleasure-based sex education platform that creates educational content and workshops to center the pleasure, empowerment, and liberation of Black people. Through Afrosexology, she has created space for people of color to reclaim their sexuality and body agency.
Saah teaches courses on social theory, social justice, and sexuality education. She is also a sought-after facilitator and keynote speaker for conferences and events related to social justice and/or sexuality. Her work and words have been featured in HuffPost, Teen Vogue, Allure Magazine, Vibe Magazine, Glamour Magazine, Harper’s Bazaar, Playboy Magazine, Broadly, and others. Saah has received the Phenomenal Woman Award, Spirit of Social Work Award, Reverend Robert Gilbert Advocacy Award, and the Academy for Leadership & Civic Engagement Leadership Award.
Brad Tucker is an educator, dedicated to adult learning, and an international development professional passionate about advancing social justice and maximizing human development in the Global South – especially Sub-Saharan Africa.
Tucker believes that local governments and local nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) play critical roles in achieving these objectives. Through organizational development consulting, program design, and leadership/management training, Tucker partners with local governments and NGOs working in the Global South to enhance their effectiveness and increase their impact. Tucker has worked with organizations such as USAID, RTI, PACT and The Aga Khan Foundation.
Tucker’s teaching, training, and learning facilitation aims to equip individuals for more effective practice in international social and economic development and nonprofit management. At the Brown School, he teaches related subjects: International Social and Economic Development (ISED) Policy; ISED Theory; Management and Leadership of Organizations; and Leading and Managing Employees, Volunteers and Teams. Tucker is chair of the MSW concentration in ISED.
Prior to coming to the Brown School, Tucker taught at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, OH; served as a Foreign Service Officer with USAID in Washington, DC, Indonesia and Kenya; and directed a development program with activities in over 15 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Tucker earned a BSFS in International Relations, Law & Organization and a Certificate in African Studies from Georgetown University in Washington, DC. He earned both an MSW in Social & Economic Development and a PhD in Social Work with a focus on NGO organizational development/effectiveness from Washington University in St. Louis.