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Dr. Rashida Crutchfield is an associate professor in the School of Social Work and the Executive Director of the Center for Equitable Higher Education at ÃÛÌÒÓ°ÏñState University, Long Beach. She earned a Master of Social Work at the Brown School of Social Work at Washington University in St. Louis and her Doctorate in Educational Leadership from ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñ.  She worked for the National Conference for Community and Justice in Long Beach and the American Civil Liberties Union of Eastern Missouri before serving on the Covenant House ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñstaff. Experience at this Los Angeles shelter for 18-to-24-year-olds experiencing homelessness gave her insight into practice, building rapport, and intervention with this population's strengths, needs, and perspectives. 

Dr. Crutchfield has been a faculty member in the ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñ School of Social Work since 2007 as field faculty and lecturer.  She began as an assistant professor in 2014 with a focus on practice and research in youth homelessness, access to higher education, social and economic development, and social work community practice.  She was the Principal Investigator for Phase I of the CSU Chancellor’s study on food and housing security, and Co-Principal Investigator for phases II and III. These studies are the largest of their kind.