Trinay V. Thomas is the Associate Director of Field Education and Teaching Instructor at Rutgers University School of Social Work, Newark Campus. Ms. Thomas earned her B.S. in Criminal Justice at Newark College of Arts and Sciences and her MSW with a Clinical Concentration at the Rutgers School of Social Work. Ms. Thomas has been a Licensed Clinical Social Worker for 18 years and certified as a School Social Worker for 21 years.  She also worked as a School Social Worker for 12 years.

Her post graduate clinical training is in psychodynamic psychotherapy. Ms. Thomas has a great deal of experience in psychiatric social work and school social work with a special emphasis on compliance, negotiations and advocacy for children with disabilities.