Kerri A. Shaw, MSW

Shaw, MSW, LISW-S, CHW is the Community Health Worker Lead for the Ohio University Alliance for Population Health. She has twenty years of practice experience in southeast Ohio as a school social worker, counselor, program developer, and educator.

She has developed enduring successful programs in southeast Ohio including the PB & J Project, which serves thousands of children each summer. Shaw served as the Field Director and a Field Liaison in the Department of Social Work from 2012 – 2021, during which she developed the online MSW field program. She has a bachelor’s degree and master’s degree of Social Work from Ohio University.

Since 2015, she has been instrumental in the formation of the Community Health Worker (CHW) program at Ohio University, with an emphasis on workforce development and cultural humility, and has trained over 200 CHWs in southeast Ohio. As a returned Peace Corps Volunteer who spent three years in Paraguay, Shaw is committed to immigration justice and is one of the founding members of the Athens United Immigrant Support Project; she and her family have sponsored multiple asylum-seekers over recent years.

She also has received several awards and recognitions for her contributions to the field of social work, activism, and social justice, including 2014 Athens Foundation Woman of the Year and the National Association of Social Workers - Ohio Chapter 2021 Region 5 Social Worker of the Year.