Associate Professor, Social Work
University of Denver
Eugene Walls (he/him/his) is a community practice specialist whose work focuses on risk and resilience of marginalized communities; education about issues of power, privilege and oppression; and modern forms of prejudice. His scholarship has examined these issues as they relate to the LGBTQ community and has included research on protective factors, interventions and lived experiences.
After completing his master's degree in social work at the University of Texas at Austin, Walls worked as a community-based social worker in the areas of disability services, therapeutic foster care and homelessness interventions for almost nine years. He then returned to graduate school to complete his doctorate in sociology at the University of Notre Dame. Since 2005, he has been a faculty member at the Graduate School of Social Work at the University of Denver.