Ezequiel Dominguez

Ezequiel Y. Dominguez III, MSW, is a Ph.D. candidate in social work at Arizona State University whose scholarship focuses on the intervention of labor exploitation and trafficking. His dissertation explores work and resilience among Latina/o migrant farmworkers in Arizona through qualitative inquiry. He is a Health Policy Research Scholar with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and has previously held dual fellowships through the Council on Social Work Education’s Minority Fellowship Program and Doctoral Student Policy Fellowship.

Dominguez's work is informed by more than 10 years of practice experience across behavioral health, child welfare, nonprofit, academic, and criminal justice settings. Across these roles, he has engaged in direct service and supervision, applied research and evaluation, grant writing and administration, public policy advocacy, public speaking, and teaching. 

He currently serves as Victim Services Administrator with the Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry. He also provides training and technical assistance on labor exploitation and trafficking to multidisciplinary stakeholders and teaches undergraduate and graduate social work courses at Arizona State University. His teaching interests include macro social work practice, public policy, grant writing, and social work administration.

Across his scholarship, teaching, and practice, Dominguez is committed to collaborative, evidence-informed work that is responsive to the realities of the field and connected to the needs of individuals and communities alike.