Bio – Melissa Hensley
Melissa Hensley, MSW, MHA, PhD, LISW has been an assistant professor of social work at
Augsburg College since August 2010. Her practice experience includes housing and homelessness
services, public policy advocacy, and community mental health. Dr. Hensley is active in the Twin
Cities community as a volunteer with National Alliance on Mental Illness of Minnesota as well as the
Minnesota Mental Health Consumer/Survivor Network. She earned her MSW (1992) and PhD
(2010) from the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. She also holds a
Master’s degree in Health Administration from the University of Missouri—Columbia (2004). Dr.
Hensley teaches both undergraduate and graduate social work classes at Augsburg College. She
lives in Minneapolis.