Joshua Miller, Ph.D., MSW

Joshua MIller is a professor at Smith College School for Social Work. He focuses on antiracism, psychosocial capacity building in response to disasters and armed conflict, and helping people who are socio-politically targeted. He has responded to many disasters, including 9/11, Hurricane Katrina, the Asian Tsunami, and earthquakes in China and Haiti. He has written many articles and has published five books, including Psychosocial capacity building in response to disasters (2012, Columbia University Press) that describes the model of collaboration, capacity building and training of trainers used by STEP-UP. He is a co-founder of STEP-UP in Northern Uganda and is deeply committed to the work done for this project by his Ugandan and US colleagues.