Marian Swindell
Dr.Swindell’s research on death row inmates, adverse childhood events (ACES) and adverse lifetime events (ALTES), Swindell, 2019) and neuroscience is groundbreaking. She was recently invited as a guest speaker at the US Administrative Office of the Courts to share her research findings on the effects of community and family violence, ACES and ALTES on brain development and architecture. She independently contracts as a Mitigation Specialist and SME in family and community violence/dysfunction, attachment, child emotional, physical, mental, and sexual abuse, and addictions as related to brain development. Dr. Swindell, a professor of Social Work at Mississippi State University-Meridian, recently made history as the first teaching PhD in Social Work and MSW to be awarded both tenure and the rank of full professor. Dr. Swindell completed her Ph.D. (2001) and MSW (1992) in Social Work from the University of Alabama-in the traditional, brick and mortar environment.