Brandynicole Brooks
As a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker (LICSW) with over 15 years of experience, Dr. Brandynicole Brooks is deeply knowledgeable about and focused on providing comprehensive family assessments, crisis intervention, and family counseling in a child welfare setting. Since 2015, she’s served as the current director of learning and development with the DC Child and Family Services Agency’s Child Welfare Training Academy, where she focuses on the development of child welfare leaders. Along with issues of child welfare, Brooks is passionate about working with women of color who face oppression through community service and various board memberships. Her book, “Black Single Mothers and the Child Welfare System: A Guide for Social Workers on Addressing Oppression” was published in 2015 by Routledge Publishers. As a young lesbian, Brooks struggled with coming out, but she says seeing other successful queer women willing to share their stories showed her how important it was for her to be out and someone for other young queer women — out or not — to look up to. Now a proudly out lesbian, Brooks lives by a mantra that encourages love not only for herself but for the entire community — a strong force built on love that never gives up. “We, the LGBT Community, are more than what they say we are. We are educated. We are hard-working. We are leaders,” reads Brooks’ mantra. “We are more than just our sexuality, our identity, our gender. We have been faced with hard times and have overcome. We are resilient. We are graceful. We are powerful.” —GP
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