Jennifer Andrashko

Profile

Jennifer Andrashko, MSW, LICSW, joined the Social Work faculty in 2014. A public health and clinical social worker with more than 20 years of experience, her work spans health care, behavioral health, and public policy. Her teaching areas include generalist social work practice, social welfare policy, social work in health settings, and anti-racist social work practice.

Jennifer’s teaching is informed by her ongoing community and systems-level practice. She serves as Clinical Lead with Alongside Network, a Minneapolis-based nonprofit focused on the prevention and mitigation of pediatric medical traumatic stress, and as Co-Chair of the Minnesota Maternal Mortality Review Committee. Her areas of professional interest include maternal and perinatal health, health equity, rural behavioral health, and building trauma-informed systems of care.

Jennifer earned her Master of Social Work from the University of Minnesota, where she completed interdisciplinary fellowship training in the School of Medicine, and her undergraduate degree in French and Global Studies from the University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire.