Stephanie Gangemi

Office Hours: by appointment only (in person or Teams). Please email me to schedule.

Dr. Stephanie Gangemi is an Assistant Professor of Social Work in the College of Public Service at UCCS and a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in Colorado. She holds a PhD in Social Work from Smith College, an MSW from Columbia University, and a BA from Wagner College.

With more than 18 years of clinical and university teaching experience, Dr. Gangemi specializes in forensic social work, trauma treatment, personality disorders, and crisis intervention. She brings over a decade of correctional mental health experience, including clinical work at Rikers Island and service as Director of Mental Health at the El Paso County Jail. Her practice has focused on serious mental illness, personality disorders, and suicide prevention among incarcerated people.

Her research examines the experiences and training needs of correctional healthcare and law-enforcement professionals, particularly moral injury, trauma, and other harms of helping. Dr. Gangemi has served as a UCCS Teaching Fellow, C3 Innovation Fellow, Daniels Ethics Fellow, and Responsible Conduct for Research Fellow and serves on the National Commission on Correctional Healthcare (NCCHC) Policy & Research Committee. She is the founder of the Forensic Care Academy, that focuses on transforming tough places through compassionate, ethical care, training, and systems change in justice-involved settings.

• Forensic social work
• Incarceration of people with mental illness
• Personality disorders
• Suicide prevention
• Correctional healthcare & law enforcement workforces
• Moral injury and the harms of helping

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