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Teresa McDowell, EdD, LMFT is professor emerita at Lewis & Clark, where she served as department chair and co-founded the college’s Problem Gambling Services. With over 40 years of experience as a clinician, educator, administrator, and consultant, Teresa focuses on workforce development, equity-based clinical practice, integrated treatment for problem gambling, and clinical supervision. She is a social researcher, program evaluator, and consultant with Partners in Social Research and Senior Instructor for ACORN. Dr. McDowell has authored more than 50 scholarly publications and is lead author of Socioculturally Attuned Family Therapy: Applying Third Order Thinking to Theory and Practice (3rd Ed., 2026).

Iva Kosutic, PhD is the founder of Partners in Social Research. She earned her doctorate from the University of Connecticut in 2010 and has led numerous program evaluations, including for the Department of Public Health’s Office of Oral Health and Genomics Office. Dr. Kosutic has taught undergraduate courses at the University of Connecticut and graduate courses in marriage, couple, and family therapy at Lewis & Clark. Her peer-reviewed research focuses on youth development, program evaluation, gambling treatment and prevention, and family therapy.