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Mekada Julia Graham is a British social work scholar. She is best known for her work on African-centered modes of social work for serving Black communities. Graham is a tenured professor at California State University, Dominguez Hills.

Early life and education
Graham was raised in England to a working-class family. She received her B.A. with honors at Middlesex University, and obtained both her Masters of Social Work and Ph.D. at the University of Hertfordshire.

Career
Much of Graham's work focuses on social inequality, and reflective approaches to social work education. She has published several books that center social work provision for Black communities. She has also published on the feminist ethics of care.

Graham wrote Black Issues in Social Work and Social Care in which she argued that in order for social work to affect social change, practice models must be African-centered. She wrote that such approaches have been sidelined in mainstream social work paradigms.

She is currently an Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of of Social Work at California State University, Dominguez Hills. She received a 2015 Faculty Award for Excellence in Research, Scholarship and Creative Activity.

Works

 * Social Work and African-Centred Worldviews (2001)
 * Black issues in Social Work and Social Care (2007)
 * Social Work in a Diverse Society: Transformative Practice with Black and Ethnic Minority Individuals and Communities (ed.) (2016)
 * Reflective Thinking in Social Work: Learning from Student Narratives (2018)