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2025 Two-Spirit, Queer, and Trans People of Color (2-QTPOC) Award Recipient

Award Presented By:
The Council on Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity & Expression (CSOGIE) and the Council on Racial, Ethnic, and Cultural Diversity (CRECD)

The Two-Spirit, Queer, and Trans People of Color (2-QTPOC) Award recognizes significant contributions in teaching, practice, or service by CSWE members to two-spirit, queer, transgender, gender non-binary, and gender expansive communities of color in social work programs. Honorees demonstrate excellence in:

• Creating inclusive environments in social work education
• Innovating practicum education practices
• Mentoring two-spirit, queer, transgender, gender non-binary and gender expansive students, faculty and staff
• Sustaining positive and inclusive cultures
• Elevating core social work values

Please join us in celebrating the 2025 Two-Spirit, Queer, and Trans People of Color (2-QTPOC) Awardee: Dr.  Alex Washington - Read More below

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Dr. Alex Washington, PhD, MSSW, MA
BASW Program Director, California State University, Long Beach

Dr. Alex Washington is a professor and BASW Program Director in the College of Health and Human Services at California State University, Long Beach. He is also the co-director for the Population Research Institute for Science and Medicine (PRISM, affiliate of Charles Drew University, formerly CHER Institute). He teaches research methods and statistics. Alex was a visiting professor in the UCSF Center for AIDS Prevention Studies, Department of Medicine. Prior to joining ºÚÁÏÍø, he was a Faculty Fellow at the Johns Hopkins University Center for Health Disparities Solutions, and an associate professor at Morgan State University (Baltimore). He has provided outpatient treatment group therapy in the Department of Psychiatry at the VA Medical Center (Memphis). Dr. Washington’s research focuses on transgender health, and PrEP medication for HIV prevention among Black and Latinx sexual minority males (SMM); inconsistent reporting of sexual orientation and sexual behaviors among men who inject drugs; and HIV testing and sex risks among substance using Black and Latinx SMM. He has received funding from NIDA/NIGMS/NIH and SAMSHA. Alex has presented research findings at national and international conferences, such places as Thailand, Canada, Egypt, Australia, South Africa, Amsterdam, and Peru. He has published in empirically-based journals, and serves on community advisory boards. He was awarded the 2022 Ellen Ward Leadership Icon Award from the LGBTQ Center Long Beach; the 2019 ºÚÁÏÍø President’s Award for Outstanding Faculty Achievement; and the 2017 Distinguished Faculty Scholarly Achievement Award. He was also the recipient of the Gerald A. Ludd Lifetime Achievement Award (for HIV prevention and leadership in the Black community).