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Giselle Balfour
Assistant Teaching Professor, Social Work and Child Advocacy, College of Humanities and Social Sciences
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- Dickson Hall 304
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- balfourg@montclair.edu
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Giselle Balfour, PhD is a native of Trinidad and Tobago, who has spent the last decade working with children and adult survivors of human trafficking. Prior to joining the Department of Social Work at Montclair State University as an Assistant Teaching Professor, Dr. Balfour served as the Head of Programs at an international NGO seeking to end the conditions that allow modern slavery to exist, and as the Project Director of the Envision Project at the Georgia Center for Child Advocacy, providing specialized programming to aid in the reintegration of survivors of child sexual exploitation in Georgia. Both of these roles were a direct extension of Dr. Balfour's doctoral research, which centered on the intervention and reintegration experiences of trafficking survivors and at-risk women in Ghana.
Dr. Balfour has also served as an adjunct instructor of Social Work over the past 7 years.