Alexandria Forté

Dr. Alexandria Forté serves as an Assistant Professor in the School of Social Work at the University of Connecticut, leveraging her background as a medical social worker to address critical health disparities.

Her educational foundation includes:

• Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• MSW from the University of Denver

Her research program investigates how food insecurity impacts the health and well-being of minoritized children and families through the lens of critical race theory. She specializes in refining measurement tools for food insecurity assessment via collaborative qualitative and quantitative methods, emphasizing structural racism's role in food distribution inequities. Her work prioritizes adapting assessment frameworks to accurately capture experiences within racially and ethnically diverse communities, bridging social work practice with systemic health equity analysis.

Dr. Forté maintains active engagement with impacted communities to ensure research methodologies reflect real-world disparities in food access and nutrition.