Cary grew up in Downeast Maine. She has worked and lived across the United States (including Baton Rouge LA, Boston MA, Detroit MI, Oakland CA, and Providence RI) and built a career working collaboratively with young people and their families in
community-based organizations, schools, and private practice as a clinician, educator, activist, artist, and administrator of programming. Cary is passionate about social work as a social justice enterprise and mentoring developing social workers to practice in creative, transformative, and multidisciplinary ways. She lives in Pawtucket with her family.

Education:

• University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia PA (DSW)
• University of Michigan, Ann Arbor MI (MSW)
• Harvard University, Cambridge MA (BA)