Caitlin Krenn, DSW, LCSW, SIFI

Caitlin Krenn is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW), educator, researcher, and passionate advocate working with children and families experiencing housing insecurity in NYC. Prior to joining The Door, Caitlin held positions in clinical leadership at Housing Works and Women in Need (WIN). As a National Policy Fellow with the Network for Social Work Management (2020), Caitlin’s research yielded a four-pronged model of civic empowerment in family shelters. In 2021, Caitlin was honored by Brooklyn Defender Services for her work advocating for the structured reunification of children and their parents living in temporary shelter spaces.

While obtaining her doctorate at New York University (NYU), Caitlin represented her cohort as the NYU Urban Doctoral Fellow (2022), where she expanded her research to collaborate with other intersecting disciplines. Caitlin's work is internationally recognized, as she has demonstrated the profound need and essential benefit of unhoused civic empowerment for countless U.S. audiences and social welfare networks in Canada, Argentina, and Chile. Caitlin's devotion to growth and learning translates into teaching, as she has taught MSW courses at NYU's Washington Square (NYC) and Buenos Aires campuses.

Caitlin elevates her work into advocacy, as she holds a seat on the Citizens' Committee for Children's (CCC) Advocacy Council. Caitlin's work has been published in various forms by the National Association of Social Workers (NASW) Press, the Journal for the Advancement of Psychoanalytic Empirical Research (JASPER) International, as well as organizational publications out of WIN and National Alliance to End Homelessness (NAEH).

Caitlin holds a bachelor's degree in social work (BSW) from Rutgers University, as well as a master's degree in social work (MSW) and a doctorate in social welfare (DSW) from NYU.