Philip Tedeschi, LCSW MSSW

Clinical Professor Emeritus, Graduate School of Social Work, University of Denver
Founder and Director Emeritus, Institute for Human-Animal Connection, University of Denver
Co-Director, Institute for Animal Sentience and Protection

Philip Tedeschi is the Co-Director of the Institute for Animal Sentience and Protection and Director Emeritus and Founder of the Institute for Human-Animal Connection at the University of Denver. He is a licensed clinical social worker, a clinical professor at the Graduate School of Social Work and an affiliated faculty with the University of Denver’s Animal Law Program. He teaches in the Graduate School of Social Work, examining the intricate relationship between people, domestic and wild animals, and the natural world. Tedeschi’s research, scholarship, teaching, and community practice work have focused on issues of social and interspecies justice, global perspectives of human-animal interactions and human ecology. He specializes in the bio-affiliative connection between people and animals, causes of maltreatment to people/non-human animals and the health promoting potential of human-animal and nature interaction.