Sellmaier, C., Clarkson-Hendrix, M., Wernick, L. J., & Sung, J*. (In press). Experiences of disabled social work students, faculty, and staff: A photovoice-inspired project. Journal of Social Work Education.
Kattari, S. K., Wernick, L. J., Lee-Johnson, N. M., Weed, A. (In press). “Nothing about us without us”: Using disability justice as a framework for critical quantitative research. In Walls, E., Daniel, C., Spencer, M., & Winter, V. R. Decolonizing quantitative methods: Anti-oppressive approaches to social work research. Cambridge University Press.
Wernick, L. J., Jimenez, D. R.*, Nimkarn, M.*, Abbott, S., Green, A., Vaughn, J. H., Robins, B. L.*, & Tice-Brown, D. (2024). Moving money to support social justice movements: A spiritual practice. Journal of Community Psychology, 1–25. https://doi.org/10.1002/jcop.23157
Wernick, L. J., Singh, R.C.B., Lee-Johnson, N.M., Kattari, S.K., & Holloway, B. T. (2024). Action Steps Toward Dismantling Ableism in Social Work Education. Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare, 51(1/2), 370-357. https://doi.org/10.15453/0191-5096.4712
Singh, R. C. B.*, Yakas, L, Wernick, L. J., Kattari, S. K., Slayter, E., & Taylor, S. (2024). Anti-ableist and disability justice pedagogy in social work education. Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare, 51(1/2), 330-402. https://doi.org/10.15453/0191-5096.4730
Azhar, S., Rahman, R, DeVylder, J., Wernick, L. J., Cohen, M.*, & Maschi, T. (2024). What would John do? COVID-19 stigmatization, social distance and race. Journal of Ethnic & Cultural Diversity in Social Work. https://doi.org/10.1080/15313204.2024.2378761
Wernick, L. J., Tice-Brown, D., Kluch, Y., Newman, T. J., Shute, L., Lerario, M. P.*, & Harrison, J. V.* (2024). Policing Gender and Sexuality in High School Sports: The Mediating Impact of Hearing Anti-LGBTQ + Language on High School Athletes’ Self-Esteem Across Gender Identity, Sexual Orientation, and Race. Journal of Sport and Social Issues, 47(6), 504-534. https://doi.org/10.1177/01937235241239322
Wernick, L. J. (2023). Learning disability justice through critical participatory action research. In Mills, M., & Sanchez, R. Crip authorship: Disability as method (pp. 99-107). NYU Press. https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9781479819386.001.0001
Littman, D.M.*, Ortega-Williams, A., Beltrán, R., Wagaman, A., Bender, K., & Wernick, L.J. (2023). Navigating, subverting, and replacing conventional academic structures and expectations to co-create with PAR teams: Where to for PAR scholarship? Journal of Community Practice, 31(3-4), 466-487. https://doi.org/10.1080/10705422.2023.2271923
Slayter, E. M., Kattari, S. K., Yakas, L., Singh, R. C.*, Goulden, A., Taylor, S., Wernick, L. J., Simmons, L. D., & Prince, D. (2023). Beyond Ramps, Curb Cuts, and Captions: A Call for Disability Justice in Social Work. Social Work, 68(1), 89-92. https://doi.org/10.1093/sw/swac045
Rahman, R., Azhar, S., Wernick, L. J., Huang, D.*, Maschi, T., Rosenblatt, C.*, & Patel, R.* (2023). COVID-19 stigma and depression across race, ethnicity and residence. Social Work in Health Care, 62(2-4), 121-142. https://doi.org/10.1080/00981389.2023.2193263
Debower, J.*, Ortega-Williams, A., Wernick, L.J., Brathwaite, B.*, & Rodriguez, M.* (2023). Surviving the Strain of Youth Organizing: Youth and Organizational Responses. Youth & Society, 55(3), 447-468. https://doi.org/10.1177/0044118X211058216
Azhar, S., Rahman, R., Wernick, L., Tripathi, S., Cohen, M., Maschi, T. (2023). Race, masks, residency and concern regarding COVID-19 transmission. Journal of Community Psychology, 51(4), 1716-1735. https://doi.org/10.1002/jcop.22953
Wernick, L. J., Kulick, A., Inglehart, M. H., Bolgatz, J. & Dessel, A. B. (2021). Influence of multicultural curriculum and role models on high school students’ willingness intervene in Anti-LGBTQ harassment. Children and Youth Services Review, 129, 106211. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.childyouth.2021.106211
Richards-Schuster, K., Wernick, L. J., Henderson, M., Bakko, M., Rodriguez, M. A., & Moore, E. (2021). Engaging Youth Voices to Address Racial Disproportionality in Schools: Exploring the Practice and Potential of Youth Participatory Research in an Urban District. Children and Youth Services Review, 122, 105715. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.childyouth.2020.105715.
Ortega-Williams, A., Wernick, L.J., DeBower, J. & Brathwaite, B. (2020). Finding Relief in Action: The intersection of youth-led community organizing and mental health in Brooklyn. Youth & Society, 52(4), 618-638. https://doi.org/10.1177/0044118X18758542
Kulick, A., Wernick, L. J., Espinoza, M. A. B, Newman, T. J., & Dessel, A. B. (2018). Three strikes and you’re out: Culture, facilities, and participation among LGBTQ you in sports. Sport, Education, & Society. https://doi.org/10.1080/13573322.2018.1532406
Ortega-Williams, A., Wernick, L.J., DeBower, J. & Brathwaite, B. (2018). Finding Relief in Action: The intersection of youth-led community organizing and mental health in Brooklyn. Youth & Society. https://doi.org/10.1177/0044118X18758542
Ferguson, K. M., Teixeira, S., Wernick, L. J., & Burghardt, S. (2018). Macro therapeutic interventions: The impact of structural interventions on individual and community well-being. Journal of Social Work. https://doi.org/10.1177/1468017318757160
Wernick, L. J., Kulick, A, Chin, M. (2017) Gender identity disparities in bathroom safety and wellbeing among high school students. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 46(5), 917-930. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10964-017-0652-1
Kulick, A., Wernick, L. J., Woodford, M.R., & Renn, K. (2017). Heterosexism, depressions, and campus engagement among LGBTQ college students: Understanding intersectional differences and potentials for collective healing. Journal of Homosexuality, 64(8), 1125-1141. https://doi.org/10.1080/00918369.2016.1242333
Dessel, A. B., Kulick, A., Wernick, L. J. & Sullivan, D. (2017). Teacher support as an influence on sexual and gender minority youth success. Journal of Adolescence, 56 136-144. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.adolescence.2017.02.002
Wernick, L. J. (2016). Critical consciousness development impact on social justice movement giving among wealthy activists. Social Work Research, 40(3) 159-169. doi: 10.1093/swr/svw012
Wernick, L. J., Kulick, A., Dessel, A., Graham, L. F. (2016). Theater and dialogue to increase youth’s intentions to advocate for LGBTQQ people. Research on Social Work Practice, 26(2), 189-202. https://doi.org/10.1177/1049731514539417
Wernick, L. J., Kulick, A. & Woodford, M. R. (2014). How theater within a transformative organizing framework cultivates individual and collective empowerment among LGBTQQ youth. Journal of Community Psychology, 42(7) 838-853. https://doi.org/10.1002/jcop.21656
Wernick, L. J., Woodford, M. R. & Kulick, A. (2014). LGBTQ youth using participatory action research and theater to effect change: Moving adult decision-makers to create youth-centered change. Journal of Community Practice, 22(1-2), 47-66.
Wernick, L. J., Kulick, A., & Inglehart, M. H. (2014). Influence of peers, teachers, and climate on students’ willingness to intervene when witnessing anti-transgender harassment. Journal of Adolescence, 37(6), 927-935. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.adolescence.2014.06.008
Wernick, L. J., Dessel, A., Kulick, A., & Graham, L. F. (2014). Evaluating an LGBTQQ-youth led intervention that uses theater and dialogue. In J. M. Chonody (Ed.), Community art: Creative approaches to practice. Common Ground: Champaign, IL.
Wernick, L. J., & Kulick, A. (2013). What is RG’s impact? Survey results from Laura Wernick, PhD. Invited article for Resource Generation’s website. Retrieved from http://resourcegeneration.org/blog/2013/08/13/what-is-rgs-impact-survey-results-from-laura-wernick-phd/
Wernick, L. J., Dessel, A., Kulick, A., & Graham, L. F. (2013). LGBTQQ youth creating change: Developing allies against bullying through performance and dialogue. Children and Youth Services Review, 35(9), 1576–1586. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.childyouth.2013.06.005
Wernick, L. J., Kulick, A., & Inglehart, M. H. (2013). Factors predicting student intervention when witnessing anti-LGBTQ harassment: Influence of peers, teachers and climate. Children and Youth Services Review, 35(2), 296-301. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.childyouth.2012.11.003
Wernick, L. J. (2012). Leveraging privilege: Organizing young people with wealth to support social justice. Social Service Review, 86 (2), 323-345. https://doi.org/10.1086/666874
Meyerson, D. E., & Wernick, L. J. (2012). Power beyond the purse: Philanthropic institutions as agents of social change. In K. Golden-Biddle & J. Dutton (Eds.), Using a positive lens to explore social change and organizations: Building a theoretical and research foundation. New York, NY: Taylor and Francis Group, Routledge Publishing.
Wernick, L. J., Woodford, M. R., & Siden, J. Y (2010). Youth-led participatory action research: Fostering effective youth-adult partnerships – A case study. In L. Harter, J. Hamel-Lambert, & J. Millesen (Eds.), Participatory partnerships for social action and research. Dubuque, IA: Kendall/Hunt Publishing.
Meyerson, D. E., Ely, R., & Wernick, L. J. (2007). Disrupting gender, revising leadership. In D. Rhode, & B. Kellerman (Eds.), Women and leadership: The state of play and strategies for change. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.
Gutiérrez, L., Lewis, E., Nagda, B., Wernick, L., & Shore, N. (2005). Multicultural community practice strategies and intergroup empowerment. In M. Weil (Ed.), Handbook on community practice. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
Wernick, L. (1992). Jewish and White: Issues of passing. Proceedings from Carrying It On: A National Conference Organizing Against Anti-Semitism & Racism for Jewish Activists and College Students. New York, NY: New Jewish Agenda.