Alison Wetmur

Alison B. Wetmur, DSW, LCSW, is a Visiting Lecturer at the University of Kentucky College of Social Work, where she teaches graduate and doctoral courses in psychopathology, social welfare policy, program evaluation, and professional ethics. Her teaching and scholarship center on Disability Justice, d/Deaf studies, and trauma-informed clinical practice, with a sustained commitment to integrating justice frameworks into social work education and theory.
Dr. Wetmur holds a DSW and MSW from Rutgers University and a BA from Drew University. She is a bilingual English/ASL practitioner and a DeafDisabled scholar whose work draws on standpoint epistemology and Disability Justice movement frameworks. Her peer-reviewed scholarship has appeared in Social Work and the Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare. Her current work includes a book manuscript critiquing foundational social work frameworks through a Disability Justice lens, and a peer-reviewed article arguing that access and accommodation are not equivalent concepts in social work’s engagement with justice theory.
Nationally, Dr. Wetmur serves as the Inaugural Chair of the NASW National Committee on Disabilities (2026-2028), providing strategic leadership on disability policy and professional standards. She is Co-Founder of the Social Work Disability Justice League and Futures Lead for the Social Work Grand Challenges Futures Initiative, where she leads long-range planning for the integration of Disability Justice across the Grand Challenge domains.
In clinical practice, Dr. Wetmur owns True Places Counseling PLLC in New London, Connecticut, providing bilingual English/ASL therapy with EMDR specialization. She co-founded RaisingDeafChildren.com, a resource site serving more than 15,000 annual visitors, and organizes the annual Disability Justice IS Social Work Unconference.