Jessica Saba, LCSW is a therapist and PhD candidate in the School of Social Work at Michigan State University. She earned her bachelor’s degree in Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of California, Berkeley and her Master of Social Work from the University of Southern California. Her scholarship examines the intersections of settler colonialism, resistance, and gender- particularly within the Palestinian context. Currently, she is working on her dissertation which explores the ways in which settler colonialism and patriarchy, and the intersections of these systems of oppression, manifest in the lives of Palestinian women and how women resist these manifestations in their everyday lives. Jessica was selected as a doctoral fellow for the Council of Social Work Education’s Minority Fellowship Program and the U.S. Department of Education’s Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) fellowship. Through her research, teaching, and mental health practice, Jessica aims to challenge systems of oppression, advocate for the needs of marginalized communities, and train and mentor future social workers to work for systemic change.
Selected Publications
- Saba, J., Nestor, D., Hernandez, N., & Brade Stennis, K. (2023). The shoe on the other foot: considering oppression for BIPOC social workers. Journal of Ethnic & Cultural Diversity in Social Work, 1-8.
- Irish, K., & Saba, J. (2023). Bots are the new fraud: A post-hoc exploration of statistical methods to identify bot-generated responses in a corrupt data set. Personality and Individual Differences, 213, 112289.
- Kennedy, A. C., Prock, K. A., Adams, A. E., Littwin, A., Meier, E., Saba, J., & Vollinger, L. (2024). Can this provider be trusted? A review of the role of trustworthiness in the provision of community-based services for intimate partner violence survivors. Trauma, Violence, & Abuse, 25(2), 982-999.
- Saba, J. (2023). “No Free Homeland Without Free Women:” Tal’at’s Indigenous Feminist Movement. Affilia, 38(4), 646-655.
- Kennedy, A. C., Meier, E., & Saba, J. (2021). Sexual violence within intimate relationships. The Routledge international handbook of domestic violence and abuse, 203-219.
