Melissa Levin, MSW, LICSW

Melissa Levin, MSW, LICSW (she/her) is a is a senior social worker at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and a programmatic specialist for The Neuro-Inclusive Oncology Care and Empowerment Program. She provides supportive psycho-social oncology services to people who have intellectual and/ or developmental disabilities (IDD) and are facing cancer. She also works on systems improvements to remove barriers that produce inequitable cancer outcomes. In her prior roles, Melissa worked as a special education school social worker, and as a researcher alongside disability advocates delivering a self-advocacy curriculum to youth with IDD across several schools and community sites in Massachusetts. She is a former Boston Children’s Hospital LEND fellow (leadership education in neuro-developmental and related disabilities).