Brief Bio:

Noell L. Rowan is Director of BSW Program and Assistant Professor, Kent
School of Social Work, University of Louisville. She earned her BSW and
MSW from University of Georgia and her Ph.D. in social work from the
joint program of University of Louisville and University of Kentucky.
She has 20 years of experience as a social work clinical practitioner
primarily in the areas of mental health and addictions and has LCSW in
both Kentucky and Indiana, CADC and ACSW. In 2010, she was selected as
one of six national Hartford Geriatric Social Work Faculty Scholars
wherein she will conduct research to explore resiliency and quality of
life in older lesbian adults with alcoholism. The Faculty Scholars
Program is one of five programs funded as part of a John A. Hartford
Foundation initiative to enhance the capacity of social work education
to meet the needs of the nation’s older adults and their families.