Meet Shweta Tembe

DEI, Mental Health & Leadership Development Speaker

Shweta Tembe, MSW (she/her) is a queer, Indian-American social worker, facilitator, educator, and former psychotherapist specializing in issues of trauma-informed care, liberatory practice, and work with queer and trans people of color (QTPOC). She has a background in working with students from underserved, rural areas to embrace their authentic selves and with QTPOC in individual therapy to heal from trauma and pursue authenticity and belonging.

Shweta earned a Bachelor's of Arts in psychology at the University of Virginia and a Master's of Social Work from the Smith College School for Social Work. She values the interconnectedness among all of us, intuition and self-trust, possibility, and peace, and works from a lens drawing from antiracist, fat liberation, and disability justice movements. Outside of her work, she sings to her cat, befriends neighborhood seals, and takes gorgeously vulnerable risks in the Pacific Northwest.