Quenette Walton, Ph.D., LCSW

Dr. Quenette L. Walton is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW), a qualitative researcher, and a professor at the University of Houston Graduate College of Social Work. Dr. Walton joined ALSO as a consultant in 2015, working on its STOP Technical Assistance to Administrators Resource (STAAR) Project and the Underserved Technical Assistance Project (UTAP), contributing her expertise to these capacity-building initiatives funded by the Office on Violence Against Women (OVW). Dr. Walton has over 10 years of combined practice and academic experience in social work, child welfare systems, and organizational capacity building. Dr. Walton’s work experience has spanned multiple systems—child welfare, schools, and community mental health facilities—where she provided mental health services to children and families. She has also served on the Board of Directors for the Westside Domestic Abuse Project, now called the Center for Advancing Domestic Peace, Inc., from 2005–2007.

Prior to her work with ALSO, Dr. Walton completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Center for Health Services and Society. She earned her Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Chicago Jane Addams College of Social Work, where her research focused on depression experiences and wellness among middle-class African American women; a Master’s in Social Work from the University of Chicago School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice; and a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.