She is the 2015 recipient of the University’s Lindback Distinguished Teaching Award. Dr. Bean’s commitment to underserved populations is best exemplified by her work in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, where she was a founding board member of lowernine.org, an organization dedicated to rebuilding the devastated Lower Ninth Ward. As a Disaster Mental Health Services volunteer with the American Red Cross, she has worked in the aftermath of local and national disasters including in New York City after the September 11th terrorist attacks.