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Sergio Serna, who joined the Field faculty this fall, is a licensed clinical social worker who has dedicated his career to working children and families engaged by the public child welfare system.

As we honor Latinx social workers during Latinx Heritage month, the Latinx...Read more about Celebrating Latinidad: Q&A with Field Consultant Sergio R. Serna, LCSW

Professor Kurt Organista comments on the effectiveness of community health workers known as promotores...Read more about Kurt Organista in NY Times: A large share of Hispanic adults in the U.S. got vaccinated over the summer, a survey shows

Associate Professor Tina Sacks is interviewed by Kai Risdall and Molly Wood on the Marketplace podcast "Make Me Smart." ...Read more about Podcast: Tina Sacks explains the social safety net

“It takes a next-level kind of bravery to do what Naomi Osaka and Simone Biles did, but most athletes cannot afford to be that revolutionary,” said [associate professor Tina] Sacks. “Why aren’t there more...Read more about Breaking the cycle of shame about mental struggles in athletics

Initially active from 1989 to 2010, the Distinguished Alumni Award is being relaunched this year by the School of Social Welfare with support from the...Read more about Berkeley Social Welfare Distinguished Alumni Award: 2021 Honorees

Not long after graduating with an MSW in 1968, alum Ruth A. Davis picketed in front of Sproul Hall to advocate for the creation of a Black Studies department. She then set down her sign, headed to SFO, and boarded a plane to Washington DC to begin a long and illustrious career in the U.S....Read more about Diplomacy and social work: Ambassador Ruth A. Davis (MSW '68) looks back on a groundbreaking career

A group of UC Berkeley researchers — including Assistant Professor Erin Kerrison — recently won a 3-year, $2 million National Science Foundation grant...Read more about Erin Kerrison among UC Berkeley Recipients of Million Grant to Build Criminal Justice Big Data Tools

"Black play does the job that we tend to not do, which is transform the places in which we find ourselves into places in which we live." PhD student Demond Hill talks with...Read more about PhD student Demond Hill on Science of Happiness podcast

Anu Manchikanti Gómez ...Read more about Anu Manchikanti Gómez in SF Examiner: "How SF improves pregnancy care for communities of color"

The Alzheimer's Association and the NFL Alumni Association (NFLA) announced a new partnership today aimed at raising concern and awareness of Alzheimer's disease and all other dementia, while also providing care and support resources for individuals and families impacted by dementia. To...Read more about Town Hall: "Team Up to End Alzheimer's – A Discussion on Brain Health and the Black Community"

What is changemaking, and how is Berkeley incorporating that ethos into its curriculum? That’s what Thursday’s virtual panel discussed as part of Berkeley’s first fall Campus Conversations event. During the hourlong...Read more about Taking changemaking beyond the classroom

On August 10, 2021, Kimberly Mayer, Center Director at CalSWEC, E. Maxwell Davis, Director of Integrated Behavioral Health Program at CalSWEC, and Sergio Aguilar-Gaxiola, MD, PhD, Professor of Clinical Internal Medicine, and Director, Center for Reducing Health Disparities, UC Davis, joined the...Read more about Behavioral Health Workforce Shortages in California

"Black children’s play, playful expressions, and playfulness are too often restricted and threatened in an anti-Black world [Tamir] Rice, [Ma...Read more about PhD student Demond Hill: "For Black children, play can be transformative"

We are proud to announce that Professor Kurt Organista has been awarded the Harry and Riva Specht Chair in Publicly Supported Social Services in the School of Social Welfare. This Chair was established to...Read more about Professor Kurt Organista awarded the Harry and Riva Specht Chair in Publicly Supported Social Services

Lindsey Chung (BASW '21) champions trans and nonbinary voices on campus. Chung received the Charlene Conrad Liebau Library Prize for their thesis, Accessing Gender Affirming Care from the Margins: Comparing the Strategies of Transgender People Pre-1980 to Non-Binary People Today...Read more about Lindsay Chung (BASW '21): There’s No One Way To Be: How One Recent Grad Created Space for Trans and Queer Identities at Cal

Associate ProfessorTina Sacks shared in a CNN op-ed: "Children under 12, including my son, cannot protect themselves from the coronavirus. They cannot get the Covid-19...Read more about Tina Sacks on CNN: "What anti-vaxxers sound like to me"