Nahime Aguirre Mtanous
Doctoral Student
Biography:
Nahime Aguirre Mtanous is a fourth-year doctoral student in the Social Welfare PhD program at the Sandra Rosenbaum School of Social Work at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She received both her bachelor’s degree in comparative human development and master’s degree in social welfare from the University of Chicago.
Prior to UW-Madison, Nahime worked within the Medicaid Waiver 1915(c) Program for the Illinois Division of Developmental Disabilities as a direct support professional, case manager, program director, and eventually a pre-admission screening Qualified Intellectual Disabilities Professional (QIDP). While completing her master’s degree, she completed the Illinois Leadership Education in Neurodevelopmental and Related Disabilities (LEND) fellowship at the University of Illinois-Chicago’s Department of Disability and Human Development. Her social work practice experience, including several years providing mental health therapy for neurodivergent adults in the Chicagoland area, reflects her sustained commitment to working with adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
She is currently an Advanced Opportunity Fellow for the Letters & Science Community of Graduate Research Scholars and a Graduate Fellow for the Institute for Diversity Science, both at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her program of research aims to understand and support better mental health outcomes for autistic people as they age. Her work has appeared in Autism and received recognition including the 2025 Sheldon D. Rose Memorial Scholarship and a Student/Trainee Award from the International Society of Autism Research.
Links:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/nahimeaguirre
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/therapists/nahime-guadalupe-aguirre-mtanous-chicago-il/994233
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=elWUCfgAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao