While earning her Masters in Social Work at Columbia University, Kelsey studied religious trauma, intimate partner violence, and family acceptance within the LGBTQIA+ community.

As a PhD candidate at Columbia, Kelsey’s current research interests include: [Primary] Subverting social work education and practice through lenses of queer irreverence and mess: exploring how social work is taught and carried out in ways that position social workers as sites of social control within their own communities, as well as how this impacts the personhoods of the clinician and client, interrupts collective liberation by enforcing unidirectional healing, and stems from settler colonialism and white supremacy; [Secondary] Clinical practice with the expansiveness of queer and trans identity: non-normativity as a roadmap; Queering research through critical participatory action research: problematizing the professionalism of care practice within queer and trans suicidality and death.

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Research Appointments

UNI, Social Intervention Group, Columbia University School of Social Work, New York, NY
Graduate Research Assistant, 2020 - Present

The Queering Education Research Institute (QuERI), New York, NY
Research Intern, Dignity for All Students Act (DASA), Summers 2021 & 2022

SAFE Lab, Columbia University School of Social Work, New York, NY
Graduate Research Assistant, Mayor’s Office of Criminal Justice (MOCJ) SMART Tool Project, Summer 2021

Peer-Review Service

Science Publishing Group (SciencePG), Open Access Publisher
Reviewer, Social Sciences (2024 – Present)

University of Houston, Graduate College of Social Work, Houston, TX
Reviewer, Perspectives on Social Work (PSW) (2020 – Present)

Columbia School of Social Work, New York, NY
Managing Editor, CSWR & The Amsterdam (2022 – 2023)
Executive Editor, CSWR & The Amsterdam (2021 – 2022)
Associate Editor, Columbia Social Work Review (CSWR) (2020 – 2021)

Peer-Reviewed Publications

Reeder, K. G. (2024). Questioning Case Studies: Subverting Social Work Education and Practice Through a Lens of Queer Irreverence. Studies in Clinical Social Work: Transforming Practice, Education and Research, 1–19.

Reeder, K. G., Lee, Y. G., Sung, J., Vinogradov, V., Zhakupova, G., Mergenova, G., Davis, A. Paine, E. A., Primbetova, S., Terlikbayeva, A., Kali, S., Hunt, T., Wu, E. (2024). Trans Health is Public Health: The Prevalence of HIV Among Trans and Gender Expansive People in Kazakhstan. Research Square (Preprint).

Wu, E., Lee, Y. G., Vinogradov, V., Zhakupova, G., Mergenova, G., Davis, A. Paine, E. A., Hunt, T., Reeder, K., Primbetova, S., Terlikbayeva, A., Laughney, C., Chang, M., Baiserkin, B., Abishev, A. Tukeyev, M., Abdraimov, S., Denebayeva, A., Kasymbekova, S., Tazhibayeva, G., Kozhakhmet, M. (2024). A Stepped-Wedge Cluster Randomized Trial of PRIDE in HIV Care: A Crowdsourcing and Peer-Actuated Network Intervention to Increase Engagement in the HIV Care Continuum for Sexual Minority and Gender Expansive Men in Kazakhstan. PLOS ONE (Preprint).

Wu, E., Lee, Y. G., Vinogradov, V., Zhakupova, G., Mergenova, G., Davis, A. Paine, E. A., Hunt, T., Reeder, K., Primbetova, S., Terlikbayeva, A., Laughney, C., Chang, M., Baiserkin, B., Abishev, A. Tukeyev, M., Abdraimov, S., Denebayeva, A., Kasymbekova, S., Tazhibayeva, G., Kozhakhmet, M. (2024). Increasing HIV Testing Among Sexual and Gender Expansive Men in Kazakhstan: A Stepped-Wedge Randomized Trial of a Community-Level Intervention. medRziv (Preprint).

Bochicchio, L., Carmichael, A., Herman, R., Scheer, J.R., Reeder, K., Stefancic, A. (Accepted July 2024). “Being here, you could actually be yourself”: Trans and gender expansive youth’s experiences of affirmation within LGBTQ+ community-based organizations. Psychological Services.

Vinogradov, V., Lee, Y. G., Zhakupova, G., Mergenova, G., Davis, A., Paine, E. A., Reeder, K. G., Laughney, C. I., Sung, J., & Primbetova, S. (2024). Social Impacts of Multi-City HIV Research Participation Among Sexual and Gender Expansive Individuals in Kazakhstan. medRziv (Preprint).

Lee, Y. G., Zhakupova, G., Vinogradov, V., Paine, E. A., Laughney, C. I., Reeder, K., Davis, A., Hunt, T., Mergenova, G., Primbetova, S., Terlikbayeva, A., & Wu, E. (2022). Polydrug use, sexual risk, and HIV testing among cisgender gay, bisexual, and other men and transgender and nonbinary individuals who have sex with men in Kazakhstan. AIDS Education and Prevention.

Reeder, K. G. (2021). Gender trauma: healing cultural, social, and historical gendered trauma: by Alex Iantaffi. Journal of Gender Studies, 30(5).

Bochicchio, L., Reeder, K., Aronson, L., McTavish, C., & Stefancic, A. (2021). Understanding Factors Contributing to Suicidal Behaviors in Trans+ Identified Youth. LGBT Health, 8(4).

Bochicchio, L., Reeder, K., Pope, H., Ivanoff, A & Stefancic, A. (2020). Psychotherapeutic interventions for LGBTQ+ youth: A systematic review. Journal of LGBT Youth.

Non-Peer Reviewed Publications

scates, j. & Reeder, K. (April 2024). Is Your Course Rigorous or is it a Test of Executive Function and Burnout Resistance? CUNY Neurodiversity Conference 2024. Neurodiversity & Mental Health: Navigating Wellness, New York, NY

Laughney, C., Reeder, K., Jimenez-Solomon, O., & Anonymous. [Building Critical Consciousness] (2021, March 24). Playing cowboys and Indians: How academia performs decolonization. An Injustice!

Working Papers

Lee, Y. G., Vinogradov, V., Reeder, K., Davis, A., Káli, S. V., Yelkeyev, A., Alipova, K., Suslov, S., Mergenova, G., Primbetova, S., Terlikbayeva, A., & Wu, E. (In Preparation). Remote training of facilitators for remote intervention delivery: Strategies and lessons learned from an HIV prevention trial involving cisgender gay, bisexual, and other men and transgender and nonbinary individuals who have sex with men in Kazakhstan.

Vinogradov, V., Lee, Y. G., Zhakupova, G., Mergenova, G., Davis, A., Paine, E. A., Reeder, K., Laughney, C. I., Primbetova, S., Terlikbayeva, A., Sugarman, J., & Wu, E. (In Preparation). Participant-endorsed social impacts of multi-city HIV prevention research among cisgender gay, bisexual, and other men and transgender and nonbinary individuals who have sex with men in Kazakhstan.

Bochicchio, L., Reeder, K., Aronson, L., & Stefancic, A. (In Review). ‘Closeted’ History: Involuntary Psychiatric Institutionalization of Gay Men in the 1950s at Atascadero State Hospital in California. The American Historical Review.

Conference Presentations

Oral Presentation

Reeder, K. (June 2024). Disrupted Personhood in Social Work Pedagogy & Praxis: Queering Social Work’s Assertion of Unidirectional Teaching and Care. LGBTQ Research Symposium. 12th Annual Symposium. University of Kansas, Remote

Green, J., Reeder, K., & Verdino, A. (January 2024). Recentering Community Knowledge through Practice Informed Research: Empowering Scholar-Practitioner Experience within the Academy. Society for Social Work and Research. Annual Conference: Recentering and Democratizing Knowledge, Washington, DC

Reeder, K. & Jamison, A. (March 2023). Queer & Trans Expansiveness: Deeper Dive into Understanding the LGBTQ+ Community. The Administration for Children and Families. National Convening on Building an Inclusive Human Services System, Hyattsville, MD

Reeder. K. (May 2022). Liberatory Social Work: Queering Social Work Praxis & Pedagogy. Ivy+ Teaching Transformations Summit, Annual Conference: Hosted by Harvard University, Remote

**Oral Presentation**
Global Perspectives on LGBTQ+ Populations: Outcomes, Experiences and Interventions

Reeder, K., Vinogradov, V., Lee, YG., Mergenova, G., Káli, S., Yelkeyev, A., Davis, A., Alipova, K., Primbetova, S., Suslov, S., Terlikbayeva, A., El-Bassel, N., Wu, E. (January 2022). Remote Training for a Remotely Delivered HIV Preventive Intervention for Sexual and Gender Expansive Persons in Kazakhstan: Strategies and Lessons Learned. Society for Social Work and Research. Annual Conference: Social Work Science for Racial, Social, and Political Justice, Washington, DC

Reeder, K., Bochicchio, L., Stefancic, A., Pope, H., Ivanoff, A. (January 2019). Behavioral Health. Interventions for LGBTQ+ Youth: A Systematic Review. Society for Social Work and Research. Annual Conference: Gender Based, Family, and Community Violence, San Francisco, CA

Recorded Speaking Engagements

Ross, C. (Host), & Wu, E., & Reeder, K. (Narrs.). (2022, November 3). Rigor as liberation with Elwin Wu and Kelsey Reeder (Season 5, Episode 4) [Audio podcast episode]. In S. Ogden, L. Nicholas, J. Hanford, & M. Brown (Producer), Dead ideas in teaching and learning. Columbia University Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL).

Areas of Practice