May 12, 2021
Berkeley Social Welfare 2020-21 Achievement Awards
Our warmest congratulations to this year's honorees.
James Midgley Leadership Award
Cinthia Hernandez
Social Welfare Dean's Award for Academic Achievement
Diana Mucino and Thooraya Mused
Social Welfare Undergraduate Award for Outstanding Community Service
Miranda Mosley
Charlene Conrad Liebau Library Prize for Undergraduate Research
Lindsey Chung
Excellence in Social Work Practice Award
Angelica (Angie) Santiago and Marianna Singwi-Ferrono
Dean's Award for Social Justice
Daniela Medina and Shatesha Morris
Ralph M. Kramer Award
Emily Hampshire and Daniela Medina
Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor and Teaching Effectiveness Awards
Douglas Epps
James and Khadija Midgley Doctoral Dissertation Award
Laura Brignone
Student Research Presentations
Undergraduates who pursued honors in the major presented their theses:
- Lindsey Chung: "Accessing Gender Affirming Care from the Margins: Comparing the Strategies of Transgender People Pre-1980 to Non-Binary People Today"
- Cindy Diaz: "Latino Students and Higher Educational Attainment: The Impact of Home-Based Parental Involvement"
- Diana Mucino: "Healthcare Access and the Undocumented Latinx Community in California"
Three of our graduating doctoral candidates also presented their dissertation research:
- Laura Brignone: "From Warm Handoff to Wrap-Around Care: Role of a Digital Warm Handoff in Improving Emergency Department Care for Domestic Violence Survivors"
- Allen Ratliff: "A Social-Ecological History of Gender and Violence in the Lives of Transgender and Nonbinary Young People"
- Katie Savin: "'Playing the Game' on SSI and SSDI Benefits: How Social Security Administration Policy Shapes the Individual, Societal, and Communal Disability Experience"