About
Arturo Zinny is Assistant Clinical Professor in the Department of Community Health and Prevention and Executive Director of the Center for Nonviolence and Social Justice (CNSJ) at Drexel University’s Dornsife School of Public Health.
Previously, he served for five years as Program Director of Healing Hurt People, a hospital and community-linked violence intervention program housed within the CNSJ. Prior to this role, Arturo was Project Director of the Philadelphia Alliance for Child Trauma Services at Community Behavioral Health and Director of Behavioral Health at Congreso de Latinos Unidos. His research and professional interests have focused on the implementation of evidence-based and promising practices for trauma-impacted children, adults, and their families.
Arturo was awarded a Stoneleigh Fellowship for the project "Assessing Community-Based Trauma Mental Health Care’s Efficacy" to further examine the prevalence of trauma and the efficacy of community-based trauma mental health care among violently injured youth at CNSJ.
Arturo holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in psychology from Universidad Nacional de Rosario in Argentina, and he is a doctoral candidate in the Community Health and Prevention PhD program at the Dornsife School of Public Health.