Columbia University School of Social Work Adjunct Faculty

Samuel Cotton, Adjunct Lecturer Samuel Cotten has taught U.S. Social Welfare Policy at the Columbia University School of Social Work (CUSSW) since 1998. Mr. Cotton received his MSW from CUSSW in 1995. Since earning his MSW, he has worked with mentally ill criminals and is currently the Assistant Director of the NYC Link Program, which provides case management and linkages to the community for persons leaving incarceration. Samuel Cotton is the Executive Director of the Coalition Against Slavery in Mauritania and Sudan (CASMAS). CASMAS is an organization dedicated to raising the awareness of the American public to the existence of slavery and human-rights abuses in Mauritania and Sudan. Mr. Cotton is a documentary filmmaker, a recipient of the Petra Foundation Human Rights Fellowship and is the first Columbia University School of Social Work’s Musher International Fellow. He is an investigative journalist whose work has appeared in the City Sun, Daily Challenge, New York Post, and Vibe Magazine. He has appeared on Dateline NBC, Tony Brown’s Journal, and Black Entertainment Television. He published Silent Terror: A Journey Into Contemporary African Slavery. He is a Ph.D. candidate at CUSSW.