Ajwang’ Warria, DLitt et Phil., is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Social Work at the University of Calgary (Canada). Prior to this, she was a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Social Work at the University of the Witwatersrand (Johannesburg, South Africa). Her research interests lie in child protection, transnational migration, intervention research and international social work. She has authored more than 50 peer-reviewed publications.

Ajwang’ has led and supported various projects initiated by the South African government, USAID and UNICEF focusing on children on the move, trafficking in persons and alternative care for children. She has worked on various research, practice, and advocacy-related initiatives in southern and East Africa. In Canada, she is working with several community partners on violence prevention and migration data curation as part of a Newcomer Knowledge Hub. Her current projects in South Africa are addressing survivor-informed service provision to trafficked persons, Africentric trauma-informed practice, child migration, and community-based child protection.

Ajwang’ serves as a member of the Olympic Refuge Foundation Think Tank. She is a research fellow at the University of Johannesburg (South Africa). She holds a doctoral degree from University of Johannesburg and a Master degree in Clinical Social Work from the University of Cape Town.