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Begonia Herbert-Ramirez: Finding a Home in Haviland Hall
The journey to success is rarely a smooth and linear path. For UC Berkeley School of Social Welfare undergraduate Begonia Herbert-Ramirez, the path to becoming a University Medal nominee with a 4.0 GPA was particularly trying. Through the ups and downs, however, were two things that kept her...Read more about Begonia Herbert-Ramirez: Finding a Home in Haviland Hall
Building a “Prison-to-School” Pipeline: Sammie Gilmore Flips the Narrative
"I'll admit it — I had preconceived notions about Sammie when I first met her."
Jill Duerr-Berrick, School of Social Welfare faculty and Zellerbach Family Foundation Professor, recalls the first time she saw Sammie Gilmore seated toward the front of her classroom...Read more about Building a “Prison-to-School” Pipeline: Sammie Gilmore Flips the Narrative
Conference: Coercive Treatment — Moving Beyond "For your Own Good"
The Berkeley Social Welfare community is invited to participate in the Coercive Treatment – Moving Beyond “for Your Own Good" Conference. The...Read more about Conference: Coercive Treatment — Moving Beyond "For your Own Good"
Passing of Tumanako Wereta, Chair of Tuaropaki Trust
We were saddened to learn of the passing of Tumanako Wereta, the long-time Chair of the Tuaropaki Trust, a pioneering Maori trust in the North Island of New Zealand. In recent years, Berkeley Social Welfare and the Goldman School of Public Policy have developed a close...Read more about Passing of Tumanako Wereta, Chair of Tuaropaki Trust
Freidlander Lecture: Dr Birgit Pfau-Effinger
Social Welfare PhD student involved in organizing for disability cultural center
Social Welfare doctoral Student Katie Savin has been the grad student rep in organizing for a disability community center on the Cal Campus.
“A lot of people don’t consider disability as a social-cultural identity; they consider it as something unfortunate that happens...Read more about Social Welfare PhD student involved in organizing for disability cultural center
Dr. Reuben Miller: "The Afterlife of Incarceration"
Tripodi Lecture on Research Methodology
Dr. Miller will spend some time on methods, specifically the practice of ethnographic research, the debates on positionality and reflexivity and what we can learn by getting close to our work. He will draw from his field notes to...Read more about Dr. Reuben Miller: "The Afterlife of Incarceration"
Berkeley Social Welfare MSW Program Ranked #3 in Nation
In US News and World Report's latest rankings of the country's best universities in academic quality, Berkeley Social Welfare has placed in the top...Read more about Berkeley Social Welfare MSW Program Ranked #3 in Nation
Our Founding Mother: Jessica Blanche Peixotto
Jessica Blanche Peixotto is credited with being the founder of social welfare studies at Berkeley. Her family’s story can be traced back to the time when Christopher Columbus was setting off for the New World. On the Iberian Peninsula in the late 1400s the Inquisition was in full swing. One...Read more about Our Founding Mother: Jessica Blanche Peixotto
Tina Sacks on Racism in American Medicine
America’s healthcare system is considered by many the finest in the world, and the symbol of what America can achieve combining science and service. It’s also true that we spend 1/5 of our nation’s resources funding healthcare, so it’s certainly an institution that all Americans are deeply...Read more about Tina Sacks on Racism in American Medicine
Assistant Professor Tina Sacks featured on Berkeley Talks
What are some of the current challenges to maintaining social welfare programs for the nation’s most vulnerable people in the Trump era? Assistant Professor Tina Sacks explores this issue in the latest podcast in the Berkeley Talks series. Her lecture gives an overview of the incidence and...Read more about Assistant Professor Tina Sacks featured on Berkeley Talks
Veteran Students Honored for Service
Dean's Reflections on Hate-driven Incidents
Dear Social Welfare Community,
We are living through a period of widening hate driven violence across our country and in many communities. Some communities have long been on the receiving end of such violence but it is clearly accelerating, whether the target is a Black church, a group...Read more about Dean's Reflections on Hate-driven Incidents
Dean's Reflections on Recent Senate Hearings
Dear Social Welfare Community,
I write to reflect on the events in Washington DC and elsewhere in our country last week. On Thursday we witnessed two starkly different testimonies before the Senate Judiciary Committee about events decades in the past. Dr. Ford offered a humble account of...Read more about Dean's Reflections on Recent Senate Hearings
Child Welfare Podcast Features MSW Alums
Serena Redux: On the US Open, Race, Gender + Public Health
By now, much has been written about the Serena Williams-Naomi Osaka-Carlos Ramos fiasco at the 2018 US Open. The debate has fallen along ...Read more about Serena Redux: On the US Open, Race, Gender + Public Health
Professor Tina Sacks Named CRSC Chair
In acknowledgment of a recent board appointment, Assistant Professor Tina Sacksis the new chair at the Institute...Read more about Professor Tina Sacks Named CRSC Chair
Prof. Kurt Organista Awarded Chancellor's Fellowship
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
Dean Jeffrey Edleson Begins Final Year as Dean
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 Social Welfare Faculty Scholarship #2 in Nation
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). The study examined cumulative h-indexes of faculty at each school...Read more about Berkeley Social Welfare Faculty Scholarship #2 in Nation
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