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Tina Sacks reflects on the spectrum of public reactions to Serena Williams breaking a tennis racket during a US Open match, reactions that signify "Serena’s long history of disrespect at the hands...Read more about Serena Redux: On the US Open, Race, Gender + Public Health

In acknowledgment of a recent board appointment, Assistant Professor Tina Sacks is the new chair at the Institute for the Study of Societal...Read more about Professor Tina Sacks Named CRSC Chair

In recognition of exemplary research that focuses on psychosocial problems within the Chicano and Latino communities, Professor Kurt Organista has been selected for the Chancellor’s...Read more about Prof. Kurt Organista Awarded Chancellor's Fellowship

Dear Social Welfare Community,

This starts my seventh and final year as your dean. It has been my honor to be your dean during such a period of significant change in the life of the School and a full circle in my career that started right here in Haviland Hall as an undergraduate...Read more about Dean Jeffrey Edleson Begins Final Year as Dean

Berkeley is ranked #2 in the country in a new study examining the impact of faculty scholarship among 1,699 faculty at all 76 social work doctoral programs in the United States (Smith, Jacobs, Osteen & Carter, 2018)....Read more about Berkeley Social Welfare Faculty Scholarship #2 in Nation

Berkeley Social Welfare mourns the loss and celebrates the life of former Oakland mayor, Social Welfare alum and beloved congressional firebrand Ron Dellums (MSW '62).

"Ron Dellums, the son of a longshoreman who became one of America's best-known black congressmen, a...Read more about Social Advocate Ron Dellums (MSW '62) dies at 82

Two graduating social welfare majors were recognized at the 2018 UC Berkeley Chancellor's Awards for Public Service. This prestigious annual event celebrating Berkeley student and faculty service to their communities took place on April 30 at the International House.

Katie Cruz was the...Read more about Social Welfare Undergrads Receive Public Service Honors

Berkeley Social Welfare Field Consultant Andrea Dubrow has been named a 2018 Honored Instructor by UC Berkeley Extension in recognition of her teaching excellence and personifying a professional commitment to lifelong learning.

She is the coordinator of the Bay Area Social Services...Read more about Field Consultant Andrea Dubrow Named Honored Instructor

Three of the six recipients of UC Berkeley's 2018 Jim Fahey Safe Homes for Women Fellowship are graduating MSW students.

Karina Sweitzer, Erica West and Iris Lin (pictured left to right) were honored earlier this week by the Berkeley Graduate Division.

Established in 2007, the...Read more about MSW Students Named Fahey Fellows

Dr. Park Neunghoo (PhD ’98) remembers the day — it was February 22, 1998 to be exact — that he earned his doctoral degree in social welfare from the University of California, Berkeley. Having completed his dissertation on California’s public assistance programs and...Read more about Health and Welfare Minister Park Neunghoo (PhD '98) on promoting policies that benefit children and the elderly in South Korea

Berkeley Social Welfare has graduated 12,000 social work leaders and practitioners and is the scholarly home of distinguished faculty who produce awardwinning research and provide training in support of the profession. The School, however, had yet to directly staff a social worker dedicated to...Read more about Meet Ari Neulight, Outreach Coordinator for People's Park

When Steven Czifra (MSW ’20)arrived on the Berkeley campus, his humble intent was to earn his BA in English — a goal he met in 2015 — and continue on to a doctoral program in the same field. “My whole plan,” he says, “was to get through here without being noticed.”

That bid for anonymity...Read more about Steven Czifra (MSW '20): Voice for Former Prisoners

On January 22, Berkeley Social Welfare’s newly established Latinx Center of Excellence (LCOE) honored its first cohort of stipend recipients. Comprising 20 students in their first or second year of the MSW program, the awardees were selected for their demonstrated passion and...Read more about Latinx Center of Excellence Honors Stipend Recipients

Berkeley Social Welfare Professor Kurt Organista has been named the recipient of the 2017-18 Leon A. Henkin Citation for Distinguished Service, which is awarded annually by UC Berkeley's Commitee of Diversity, Equity and Campus Climate (DECC). The Henkin Citation...Read more about Professor Organista Honored for Equity, Diversity Work

UC Berkeley School of Public Health Professor of Community Health and Human Development and Berkeley Social Welfare affiliated faculty member Emily Ozer has been named a recipient of the 2018 Outstanding Mentor Award from the Society for Research on Adolescence (SRA).

Dr. Ozer's...Read more about Affiliated Faculty Emily Ozer to Receive Mentor Award

Former Oakland mayor Ron Dellums (MSW '62) grew up on Wood Street in West Oakland, attended Oakland schools and graduated from Oakland Technical High School. After graduating from San Francisco State University, Dellums attended the School of Social Welfare at UC Berkeley in 1960-62. He...Read more about Ron Dellums (MSW '62) on political engagement and becoming the "black Sigmund Freud"

Arabella Martinez is perhaps best known as the woman who made the Fruitvale Village possible. But her service to the community stretched over forty years, and resulted in far more than a pedestrian plaza.

“When we first started to work in Fruitvale, people were afraid to be on the...Read more about Arabella Martinez (MSW '66) on organizing communities and teaching how to lead

Everything Barbara Lee (MSW '75) does – be it campaigning against poverty, advocating for AIDS research, or voting against giving the President the power to declare war – is informed by the social work values she learned at the UC Berkeley School of Social Welfare.

"A clinical...Read more about Congresswoman Barbara Lee (MSW ’75) on fighting the good fight

Former Oakland mayor Ron Dellums (MSW '62) grew up on Wood Street in West Oakland, attended Oakland schools and graduated from Oakland Technical High School. After graduating from San Francisco State University, Dellums attended the School of Social Welfare at UC Berkeley in 1960-62. He...Read more about Ron Dellums (MSW '62) on political engagement and becoming the "black Sigmund Freud"

PhD student Katie Savin's authored a New York Times op-ed, "My Supercharged, Tricked Out, Bluetooth Wheelchair Life Force," about the connection she found with her "fellow-in-a-wheelchair bus rider" Olantis.Read more about New York Times Op-Ed: "My Supercharged, Tricked Out, Bluetooth Wheelchair Life Force"