Nicollette Violante, LCSW-S is a Ph.D. student and doctoral research assistant at the School of Social Work at UNC Chapel Hill working with Dr. Cynthia Fraga Rizo. Her research interests focus broadly on parenting, early childhood mental health, harnessing the power of early intervention, toxic stress, and resiliency among refugee/immigrant survivors of intimate partner violence and human trafficking. She’s also interested in interprofessional education in healthcare, social work interventions in pediatric primary care and women’s health, trauma-informed care, health equity, and integrated behavioral health. Nicollette worked as a bilingual medical social worker at an integrated, federally qualified health center in Central Texas. She also worked as an affiliate faculty at the University of Texas’ medical and social work schools. While practicing, she specialized in perinatal mental health, parenting interventions, and in the effectiveness of interdisciplinary health care teams. Nicollette received her Master’s in Social Work from the University of Texas at Austin and her Bachelor’s of Arts in Political Science at Colorado College.
