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Berkeley Social Welfare is pleased to announce that Susan Stone, Catherine Mary and Eileen Clare Hutto Professor of Social Services in Public Education and current interim dean, will assume the role of dean on July 1, 2025. Professor Stone’s appointment as dean will mark the...

On October 29th, as the final October 2024's Cultivating Community in Challenging Times Event Series, Berkeley Social Welfare hosted a hybrid event with Charles E. Lewis, Jr. (link is external), the founder and director of the Congressional Research Institute for Social Work and Policy (CRISP), a nonprofit organization that works to engage social workers with the U.S. Congress. Dr. Lewis is an...

From Carceral to Abolition Feminism: Implications for Social Welfare - An Online Keynote with Keynote Speaker Mimi Kim (PhD '14) during the celebration of Haviland's 100th year anniversary.

Mimi Kim is Associate Professor of Social Work at California State University, Long Beach and a long-time advocate and activist working on issues of gender-based violence in communities of color. She is a co-founder of Incite! Women,Transgender and Gender Non-Conforming People of Color Against Violence, a social movement organization influential in the development of abolition feminism. In 2004...

Of the 100 most impactful social work scholars, eleven are affiliated with UC Berkeley’s School of Social Welfare, according to an updated ranking in...