Nocona Pewewardy holds and MSW from the University of Oklahoma and a PhD in Social Welfare from the University of Kansas and a law degree from the University of Oregon. Her work includes publications focused on challenging white privilege. Her scholarship has evolved to explicitly address how white privilege, as a manifestation of structural white supremacy, operates in social work practice and discourse. She is faculty at the Institute for Family Services and provides training and consultations to organizations on white privilege.