Isabel Logan, Ed.D, LCSW is the Executive Director and Co-Founder of the Social Work & Law Enforcement Project. She earned a BSW from Saint Joseph College (Presently the University of Saint Joseph), as MSW from Fordham University, and a Doctorate of Education from the University of Hartford. Dr. Logan is an Associate Professor of Social Work at Southern Connecticut State University. She maintains a small consulting and clinical practice.
Dr. Logan began her career in academia as a professor of Social Work at Eastern Connecticut State University in 2016. Before working in academia, she worked 20 years as a social worker for the Connecticut Division of Public Defender Services in New Haven Superior Court and Superior Court for Juvenile Matters at Hartford. In soo1, Dr. Logan was selected by American University to assist with developing the Cultural Proficiency in Drug Court Practice: Training of Trainers Manual for Drug Court Professionals.
Her research interests include bilingual professionals, Microaggressions, cultural, ethnic, and linguistic issues impacting human service delivery, and, police social work. In 2013, Dr. Logan received The Mary Rosa McDonough Distinguished Alumni Award from the University of Saint Joseph, and in 2019, she received the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Distinguished Service Award from Eastern Connecticut State University. Additionally, in 2021, she was awarded a Letter of Appreciation by the Willimantic Police Department. In June, 2023, Dr. Logan received the Humanitarian Award from the NAACP Windham/Willimantic Branch in Connecticut and in October 2023 the NASW-CT Chapter Social Worker of the Year Award for her work in Police Social Work.