Soma Sen
Soma Sen is a Full professor at the School of Social Work, San Jose State University. She started her academic career in 2007. She has Masters degrees in Economics from Iowa State University and in Social Work from University of Minnesota. She received her doctorate from Arizona State University. She teaches foundational theory in the Social Work Graduate program in addition to supervising final year students’ capstone projects. Her overall scholarly agenda focuses on understanding and addressing health disparities among marginalized groups. Her more recent research has focused on HIV/AIDS prevalence among Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPI), both nationally and internationally. She publishes consistently in national and international journals and disseminates her research through local, national, and international conferences. She was one of the core team members of the Social Work Education Enhancement Program (SWEEP) and was the faculty lead for the Fellows Academy arm of the project. Recently she served as the Co-PI on European Union funded grant “Building Social Capital by Improving Multicultural Competence in Higher Education and Labour Market” that aimed at promoting and enhancing multicultural competence in higher education. This was a collaborative project among various Universities in the EU.