JAYASHREE NIMMAGADDA, a Rhode Island College School of Social Work professor, oversees a federal grant designed to expand Rhode Island’s cohort of mental health providers and substance abuse counselors. / COURTESY RHODE ISLAND COLLEGE
Jayashree Nimmagadda is a professor in the Master of Social Work Program at Rhode Island College’s School of Social Work. Nimmagadda earned her MSW from Stella Maris College in Chennai, India, a post-master’s degree in psychiatric social work from the National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences in Bengaluru, India, and her Ph.D. in social…