Fatima Rasoul
Doctoral Student
About
Fatima Rasoul earned her master’s degree in social work from Loyola University Chicago. As a student in Loyola's dual degree program, she also completed a Master of Arts in Women’s and Gender Studies. She is a social worker with a background in refugee resettlement, healthcare access, and re-entry programming for formerly incarcerated individuals. Prior research experience focused on the impacts of racial inequity and community violence on the mental health of older Black mothers in Chicago, as well as after-school programming for youth from high-stress backgrounds in under-resourced neighborhoods, which aimed to promote mindfulness, healthy coping, and advocacy.
Rasoul is a refugee from Kurdistan and the child of genocide survivors. She is deeply connected to her Kurdish roots and holds a strong belief in the power of lived experiences to capture life’s complexities, both in practice and in research, which includes culturally congruent mental health interventions, service access among immigrant and refugee populations, community-based approaches to health and wellness, participatory research methodologies with immigrant communities, and the application of feminist and decolonial theory in social work practice.