Sarah Ross Bussey, PhD, LCSW, MSW is co-founder/co-owner/trainer/consultant of de-Liberate LLC, a private practitioner/supervisor, contract research assistant, and adjunct professor at Hunter College, City University of New York.  Sarah received her B.A. in Sociology from Reed College, Masters in Social Work at Portland State University, (where she was awarded the 2008 NASW Community Based Practice Award), a PhD in Social Welfare at the CUNY Graduate Center, and a post-doctoral fellowship with the Briar Patch Collaboratory.  She worked in various capacities of youth work—with a focus on complex trauma, gang-involvement, transgenerational poverty, justice-system entrenchment, housing insecurity, and skill development—before joining an innovative program addressing clinical case management needs in a health care setting.  Sarah worked for 14 years at Mount Sinai Health System as a direct clinical social worker, clinical supervisor, associate director, and director—all within Care Management.  Her research interests include anti-racism clinical and community-based interventions; social work practice and anti-racism supervision; effective interventions to enhance and tools to measure critical consciousness; restorative justice and community healing; health disparities; and critical qualitative methods.