Emy Takinami, EdM, MSW

Emy Takinami (she/her) is an Instructor and the Racial Justice Policy and Community Engagement Manager at the FXB Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard University. Her background spans macro social work, educational policy, and community organizing. She co-teaches a course at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health titled, Health Justice: Perspectives on Politics, Power, and the Environment.

Beyond her professional role, Emy serves as a steering committee member for Boston Liberation Health, a group of social workers dedicated to understanding and practicing social work using the Liberation Health framework, a model of radical mental health practice that helps individuals identify and analyze the sociopolitical factors affecting our lives and to take action to change our external world.

Emy earned her B.A. in Psychology and Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies from the University of Vermont and holds a dual Master’s degree in Social Work and Educational Leadership & Policy Studies from Boston University.