Gerald P. Mallon

Gerald P. Mallon, DSW, is the Julia Lathrop Professor of Child Welfare, Executive Director of the National Center for Child Welfare Excellence (www.nccwe.org) and Associate Dean of Scholarship and Research at the Silberman Social Work at Hunter College in New York City.

For more than 43 years, Dr. Mallon has been a child welfare practitioner, advocate, educator, and researcher. More than 34 years ago Dr. Mallon started the Green Chimneys program for LGBTQ youth, the first mainstream child welfare agency in the country to care for these youth.

Dr. Mallon is the Senior Editor of the professional journal, Child Welfare and the author or editor of more than twenty-four books. His most recent publication is: Social Work Practice with LGBTQ People, published by Routledge in 2017.

Dr. Mallon has lectured and worked extensively throughout the United States, and internationally in Argentina, Australia, Canada, Cuba, Indonesia, Ireland, Israel, the Netherlands, Portugal, and the United Kingdom.

Dr. Mallon earned his doctorate in Social Welfare from the City University of New York at Hunter College, was awarded his MSW from Fordham University and a BSW from Dominican College. Dr. Mallon also lives the talk he talks, in addition to being a child welfare professional for his entire career, he has been a foster parent and is the adoptive parent of now grown children.

He lives in New York City, New Orleans, Louisiana and Buenos Aires, Argentina.