Jana Woodiwiss is a PhD Candidate (ABD) at the University of Georgia School of Social Work where her research focuses on the impact of family separation among Latin American immigrant families. She is a Southern Regional Education Board (SREB) and Dianne C. Davidson Fellow. Jana is presently a board member on the DNA Bridge Consortium and has expereince serving as an Advisor with the Child Welfare League of America on their 21st Century Child Welfare National Research Agenda. Her clinical experience spans medical social work, foster care, adoption, hospice, and child sexual exploitation intervention. She is presently a licensed full-time dialysis social worker for multiple clinics with US Renal Care and working on her dissertation titled Separation of mixed- status Latin American Families in a Post-Migration Context from a Comprehensive Perspective; A three paper dissertation, under the tutalage of Dr. Harold Briggs. Jana provides support for  with recruitment, interviewing,  data anlysis, and presentations as supervised by Dr. Liwei Zhang. 

If if could give my life a soundtrack it would be Interstellar by Hans Zimmer (Piano and Violin version). I can see my life’s up and downs dance across this songs crescendos and diminuendos. It is such a beautiful piece of music that does not need words to narrate experiences.