Hinda Winawer, MSW, LCSW, is co-founder and Executive Director of the Center for Family, Community, & Social Justice, Inc. (CFCSJ), a non-profit institution which employs, trains and supervises clinicians to provide free, high caliber, culturally sensitive collaborative family systems therapy to economically disadvantaged children and families who are unlikely to have access to quality care. CFCSJ training supports the optimum development of children, and adults within their families and communities. Ms. Winawer is also clinical training faculty of the CFCSJ and has co-developed the Family Empowerment Program, which serves approximately 800 children and families in 10 high schools and 6 middle schools and two elementary schools in New Jersey.

Long-term clinical faculty supervisor of the Ackerman Institute for the Family, she was a founding member of the Institute's Alcohol, Drugs and the Family Project, and of a court-mandated treatment project as well as coordinator of the Nicaragua Family Therapy Training project. She taught family therapy at Rutgers University Graduate School of Social Work, and at the Heidelberg Family Institute’s summer training sessions. She has designed and taught training programs and presentations in addiction and mental health settings in the US and abroad, for a range of organizations in Nicaragua and has been faculty in the Ackerman-Yang Externship Program, Hong Kong. She maintains a private practice in Princeton, New Jersey, serves on the editorial advisory board of Family Process, and is author of a range of articles and chapters. Formerly Study Group Coordinator of the American Orthopsychiatric Association, Hinda Winawer is member of the: National Association of Social Workers; American Association of Marriage and Family Therapists; Association for Women in Psychology; and was elected to the NJ Martin Luther King, Jr. Academy of Leaders.

Within AFTA, she was charter member, Program Chair, Chair of the Family Policy Committee, Newsletter column editor, member of the Publications Committee, plenary and small venue presenter, Convener of the Racial Domination and Privilege Interest group, and member of the Board of Directors. She has hosted AFTA New Jersey regional meetings and a fundraising event, “AFTA-Noon.” Her current activities within the clinical encounter, in teaching and epistemologically, are attempts to integrate a range of co-existent factors: interpersonal and contextually generated trauma; compromised regulatory brain functions; political oppression; adolescent development; and the micro to macro system resources for resilience.