Our Consultants
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Andre P. Stevenson, PhD, MPH, MSW - CEO & Senior Consultant
Andre P. Stevenson, PhD, MPH, MSW - CEO & Senior Consultant - has over 20
years of experience and expertise in the provision of Council on Social Work
Education (CSWE) and Commission on Accreditation for Rehabilitation Facilities
(CARF) accreditation services. He has worked with multiple universities and
agencies to assist with receiving candidacy, initial or reaffirmation accreditation
statuses. He also has over 10 years working in international education/study
Abroad.
Dr. Stevenson has over 25 years of full-time teaching experience in social work
education and public health (both undergraduate and graduate levels). He currently
serves as professor of social work and director of the Office of International
Programs at Elizabeth City State University. He served as a faculty member in the
Foundation for Professional Development’s School of Business/Yale University
School of Public Health Advanced Health Management Program in Pretoria, South
Africa for two years. Prior to serving in this capacity, he served as chair and
associate professor in the department of social work at Bowie State University
(BSU). While there he worked with faculty to create the university’s first Global
Learning Visits Program, where undergraduate social work students traveled to
Cuba, Germany, Japan and South Africa on short term organized learning visits.
Also, while at BSU, he partnered with faculty to receive several private and federal
grant funded where he served as principal investigators and co-principal
investigators.
Prior to serving at BSU, he served as an accreditation specialist with the Office of
Social Work Accreditation at CSWE. In this capacity, he provided technical assistance
to social work programs seeking candidacy or reaffirmation, served as a critical
point of contact for the Commission on Accreditation, and facilitated workshops for
commissioners, academic programs, and site visitors.
Prior to being recruited to serve as an accreditation specialist at CSWE, Dr.
Stevenson served as chair of the department of social work at Johnson C. Smith
University. In this capacity, he led the effort for the social work department to
receive full accreditation (8 years) from the Council on Social Work Education. In
addition, he collaborated with university faculty and staff to secure federally grants
funded, where he served as co-principal investigators and an evaluator.
Dr. Stevenson began his full-time academic career as a lecturer and director of field
education in the department of social work at the University of North Carolina at
Charlotte. He worked closely with faculty to secure the undergraduate social work
program's full accreditation with CSWE. He also worked collaboratively with
agencies to secure internships for students.
Over the past 20 years, Dr. Stevenson also served as an adjunct faculty at the
University of Pittsburgh, Gallaudet University, Jackson State University, Case
Western Reserve University, Georgetown University, and Walden University. He has
over 20 peer-reviewed manuscripts, book chapters and edited books published. He
served as guest co-editor for a Special Section of the Journal of Social Work
Education and guest co-editor of a Special Edition of the Journal of Human Behavior
in the Social Environment. He currently serves on the Editorial Board of Frontiers: The
Interdisciplinary Journal of Study Abroad.
He was selected as a 2023 Fulbright-Hays Scholar where he studied in Taiwan, and
a Council of American Overseas Research Centers (CAORC) Fellow to study in
Cambodia in 2024.
Dr. Stevenson is a graduate of the University of Pittsburgh, where he obtained his
PhD in social work research, a master’s degree in public health, and a master’s
degree in social work. He also holds a bachelor’s degree in Counselor Education
from South Carolina State University. In 2024, received a graduate certificate in
Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) from East Carolina
University.
His professional membership affiliations include the Association of Social Work
Baccalaureate Program Directors (BPD) – National Board of Directors (Member at
Large - Elected for the term 2011-2014), American Public Health Association (APHA),
Council on Social Work Education (CSWE) – National Nominating Committee
(Elected for the term 2014 – 2017), the Forum on Education Abroad, the Institute for
International Education, the International Consortium for Social Development
(ICSD), and Black Business Association.
Core competencies and skills include: Accreditation and Curriculum Development,
International Education, Editing, Grant proposal Writing, Program Management,
Research, Strategic leadership, Program Evaluation.
So'Nia Gilkey, PhD, LCSW, LCDR - Consultant
SoNia Gilkey, PhD, LCSW, LCDR - Consultant - has over 20 years of experience
and expertise in social work and public health practice, teaching, and research. She
currently serves as Academic Program Coordinator for the DSW Program at Walden
University, where she also served as core faculty in the program. Prior to this, she
served as program director and assistant professor in the department of social
work at Texas A&M University, Kingsville. She was responsible for, among other
things, leading the program through its CSWE’s reaffirmation and working with
faculty to secure grant funding and publish research. Prior to serving as program
director at Texas A&M University, Kingsville, she served as faculty of social work in
the Health Sciences Department at Sharjah’s Women’s College Higher Colleges of
Technology in the United Arab Emirates. While there she taught in their
undergraduate program and assisted with curriculum development. Prior to that
she served as assistant professor in the Tulane University Graduate School of Social
Work and a Lieutenant Commander Inactive Reserve Corp member for the National
Public Health Corp. She also served as adjunct faculty in the University of School of
Social Work at the University of Pittsburgh.
As a licensed clinical social worker, Dr. Gilkey has spent part of her career working
in practice settings that focus on child and family wellbeing. Specific areas of
expertise include issues related to homelessness, traumatic experiences of children
and families, and psychosocial wellbeing of people living with HIV/AIDS. She has
several research publications in these areas and has presented at several national
and international conferences on related topics.
Dr. Gilkey served as a co-developer and faculty instructor of an HIV/AIDS certificate
program for people living with HIV/AIDS in Rwanda, East Africa and taught core
courses on international social work. In addition, she has received several state and
federally funded grants where she served as principal and co-principal
investigators. She consults with the Texas Department of Health and the Louisiana
Department of Health and Human Services on issues related to children, families
and disaster, and has participated in two national documentaries on post disaster
mental health and long-term recovery for families.
Dr. Gilkey is a graduate of the University of Pittsburgh, where she received her PhD
in social work. She obtained her master’s degree in social work from the Whitney M.
Young, Jr. School of Social Work at Clark Atlanta University. She also holds a
bachelor’s degree in psychology from Alcorn State University. Her professional
membership affiliations include the National Association of Social Workers, Council
on Social Work Education, and the National Association for Trauma Research
Association of Community-Based Participatory Research.
Core competencies and skills include: Accreditation and Curriculum Development,
International Education, Licensure Skills Training, Grant Proposal Writing,
Program Management, Research, Strategic leadership.