Lindsey Appointed Dean of NYU Silver School of Social Work

Michael Lindsey (PhD ’02) was appointed dean of the New York University Silver School of Social Work beginning July 1, 2022. Lindsey is an expert on race and child and adolescent mental health and a highly regarded scholar of generational poverty and inequality. He is the Paulette Goddard Professor of Social Work in the Silver School and is the first African American dean in the school’s history.

Lindsey is a nationally recognized leader in the field of child and adolescent mental health. He chaired the working group of experts supporting the Congressional Black Caucus Emergency Task Force on Black Youth Suicide and Mental Health, which created the report “Ring the Alarm: The Crisis of Black Youth Suicide in America.” He also was appointed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to the Community Preventive Services Task Force.

Lindsey is a distinguished fellow of the National Academies of Practice, an Aspen Institute Health Innovators Fellowship recipient, and a fellow of the American Academy of Social Work and Social Welfare. Prior to being named NYU Silver dean, Lindsey was the Constance and Martin Silver Professor of Poverty Studies and executive director of the NYU McSilver Institute for Poverty Policy and Research.

Lindsey holds a PhD in social work and an MPH from the University of Pittsburgh, an MSW from Howard University, and a BA in sociology from Morehouse College. Lindsey also completed a two-year postdoctoral fellowship in public health at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health.