Season 4, Episode 2: Prof. Cindy Sousa on Storytelling as Healing in Social Work

In this episode, Mary Florence interviews Prof. Cindy Sousa, professor of social work and health studies, about the power of storytelling in social work. Drawing on her social work and public health background, Dr. Sousa discusses her interdisciplinary research approach, community-led narrative methods, and the importance of culture and place in work with Palestinian, Syrian, and Rohingya families.

The conversation highlights bearing witness and accompaniment, parenting and mothering as acts of resistance, and the professional responsibility of social workers to sustain communities through joy, care, and collective meaning-making.