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Kim Baranowski, PhD (she/her/hers)

Senior Adviser
McLean Trauma Continuum of Care at Hill Center, United States

Dr. Kim Baranowski is a psychologist and researcher who works in the fields of trauma, human rights, and global health. She received her PhD in Counseling Psychology at Teachers College, Columbia University and completed her post doctoral fellowship at the Mount Sinai Health System. She fosters strategic partnerships, NGO and civil society engagement, diverse stakeholder involvement, and coalition building. She facilitates training and professional development, creates organizational programming, and leads policy advocacy efforts focused on national and international mental health and humanitarian issues. Through pro bono forensic psychological evaluation, she documents evidence and provides expert testimony related to the exposure to torture, gender-based violence, and other abuses experienced by individuals seeking protected immigration status. Dr. Baranowski also designs, conducts, and supervises mixed methods, qualitative, and participatory action research that centers lived experience voice, local wisdom, and community expertise. Dr. Baranowski is dedicated to collaborating with allied professionals across disciplines to increase access to inclusive, culturally-responsive, and trauma-informed supports for individuals and communities experiencing a wide range of stressors. She serves as Senior Adviser to the McLean Trauma Continuum at Hill Center and is the Associate Director of the Mount Sinai Human Rights Program which offers comprehensive pro bono and holistic services to asylum seekers to the United States who have experienced torture and persecution in their countries of origin. She has been awarded the American Psychological Association Citizen Psychologist Presidential Citation for bringing psychological science and expertise to bear on existing challenges to improve community well-being locally, nationally, and globally.

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