Social Welfare at Berkeley - Spring 2021 by Berkeley Social Welfare

Social Welfare at Berkeley THE MAGAZINE FOR ALUMNI AND FRIENDS spring 2021

Social Work & Racial Justice A year of reckoning and reflection

ALSO IN THIS ISSUE: RESEARCH DEVELOPMENTS DIGITAL HEALTH EQUITY LAB ON COPING DURING COVID-19 STUDENT PROFILE KATIE SAVIN CONSIDERS EQUITY AND ACCESS IN SOCIAL SERVICES ALUMNI FEATURE BRIAN MCGHEE ON SCHOOL SOCIAL WORK IN WEST OAKLAND

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spring 2021

NEW FACES

RESEARCH SPOTLIGHT

COVER STORY

EDITORIAL

BERKELEY SOCIAL WELFARE PROFILES

STAFF TRANSITIONS

HAVILAND BRIEFS

HONOR ROLL OF DONORS

ENDNOTE

Meet new faculty and staff

Digital Health Equity and Access Lab creates free texting program to help communities cope with COVID-19 stress

Race and social justice at Berkeley Social Welfare

“Social Work Needs More Men of Color” by Dean Linda Burton

Student Spotlight: Katie Savin Alumni in Action: Brian McGhee

Robert Teague reflects on his years at Berkeley Social Welfare

Faculty, field consultant, staff and student notes; faculty awards

In Memoriam

a letter from the dean What a year. When we published our 2020 magazine last May we were all still adapting to the pandemic: getting the hang of Zoom, adjusting to wearing masks, and wondering whether Fall classes would be online or in person. The racial and economic injustices of the pandemic also were becoming more visible during that time, but the full breadth of their impact was still unfolding, particularly for Native Americans. Covid-19 would prove itself to be more deadly for Native Americans than any other racial/ethnic group in the United States. George Floyd was still alive as the tragic deaths of Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery and so many other African Americans were stirring a racial reckoning. The violent attacks on Asians and Pacific Islanders were hiding in plain sight and inching their way into our view via “whispers” in the media. And Mexican and Latinx child immigrants, with and without their families, were increasingly crossing the border in search of opportunity and social justice only for their dreams to be further “caged in” when they arrived. Since May 2020, America and the world has experienced a litany of unparalleled and tragic disruptions in health and social justice that have given us many occasions to ask: what has prepared us for this moment in time? What is this moment preparing us for? And, as a community of learning and practice, how can we mobilize our skills and our resources to effectuate necessary social change in and around social justice for all? Our interdependence has never been more apparent. As a researcher who specializes in life course studies, in my lifetime, I have never seen a more global statement than COVID and the racial reckoning about how all of our lives are intertwined and how what we as individuals choose to do can have huge implications for others. So what will we do to make tomorrow — and the day after tomorrow — better for those around us? The pages of this magazine provide a few examples of how our community is answering this call, including associate professor Adrian Aguilera’s ongoing research on digital health as a tool for equity, doctoral student Katie Savin’s insights into disability-inclusive policy, and alum Brian McGhee’s heartfelt commitment to Oakland Unified School District (OUSD) students. The struggle for inclusive social justice is ongoing, of course. But in May 2021 the mood feels cautiously hopeful. We are planning for in-person classes in the fall and a return to a (revised) normal. We all look forward to being able to meet again in Haviland Hall, to a hopefully calmer and kinder year ahead, and to our shared work in building a more equitable world. In solidarity and hope,

Dean Burton

NEW FACES Erica Gomes, LCSW Field Consultant and Lecturer Field Consultant and Lecturer Erica Gomes is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who has provided clinical social work services in the non-profit sector for the past 20 years. She started her career as a domestic violence counselor and has worked primarily in medical settings providing services to a variety of populations including children, youth and families, pregnant and postpartum women and individuals living with HIV/AIDS. She has worked in a community health center in San Francisco, providing bilingual (English/Spanish) clinical services; developing and implementing their integrated behavioral health model. She has also provided outpatient slidingscale psychotherapy services, mental health evaluation for asylum cases, and has worked internationally providing social services in Central America. She is an Exam Writer for the Association of Social Work Board’s Clinical Licensing Exam and has contributed to research related to culturally adapted best practices in group CBT interventions for unaccompanied minors. In addition to her Field Consultant work at UC Berkeley, she is a Lead Integrated Behavioral Health Supervisor at La Clínica where she supervises a team of clinical social workers who provide integrated services at several medical and school-based clinics throughout Alameda, Solano and Contra Costa counties. When did you know you wanted to pursue a career in social welfare? I had the unique opportunity to live and work in Central America right after college. I was a field volunteer accompanying organized women’s leadership groups in a postcivil-war setting in El Salvador. While engaged in this work I decided that I wanted to continue to be involved in community work in support of social-work-focused programs. When I returned home I began my first social work position and have been so grateful to have found this field!

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What interested you in the position at UC Berkeley School of Social Welfare? I am passionate about social work as a field and love to learn along with others. I’ve supported social work interns in the past and have always loved hearing about how students apply classroom learning to social work practice in the field and I’ve always wanted to be a part of that conversation. Working at Berkeley is my opportunity to give back to the profession while learning along with incredible students and faculty that are furthering the field of social work. Describe a few high points of the year. Sharing time with students in our seminar and hearing about all of the great work they are doing in the community; finding a new, supportive community in my Field Consultant team; and witnessing the resilience of our incredible students and UCB community. What is one skill you think every social worker needs? I’m going with two: self care and cultural humility. If you had the chance to add one book to every Berkeley Social Welfare student’s curriculum, what would it be, and why? This is the hardest question because there are so many! This is a book from grad school that I still have with me and refer to often: Trauma and Recovery by Judith Lewis Herman. And this is a book that I recommend to all new clinicians: Trauma Stewardship by Laura van Dernoot Lipsky.

NEW FACES Patti Park, LCSW, PsyD Field Consultant and Lecturer Field Consultant and Lecturer Patti Park is a licensed clinical social worker with a Master’s in Social Welfare and a Doctorate in Psychology. Dr. Park’s areas of interest include mental health, organizational leadership, trauma-informed and culturally responsive care. Her experience includes clinical practice, research, teaching, program evaluation and development, grant writing, and executive management. She was involved in the planning and implementation of the Mental Health Service Act (MHSA) funded transformation of LA County’s child mental health system. She has served on county best practices committees to enhance assessment and treatment for children involved in the child welfare system. Her most recent agencybased leadership role was as Regional Director and Interim Vice President for Children’s Institute, Inc. In this position, she provided strategic and organizational leadership to develop and sustain comprehensive evidence-based and trauma-focused mental health programs to children and families suffering from the intersecting effects of poverty, oppression and trauma. Due to her experience and expertise in child trauma, she is currently a National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN) Individual Affiliate. Dr. Park integrates her clinical and leadership experiences into her teaching role at UC Berkeley. She has also taught theory and practice courses at UCLA, CSU Dominguez Hills, and CSU San Jose. In addition to her teaching roles, Dr. Park maintains a private practice where she provides psychotherapy and consultation services.

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When did you know you wanted to pursue a career in social welfare? In many ways I always knew I wanted to be a social worker, but the moment I decided to pursue my MSW was while working on a research project examining racism and intergroup conflict. The project crystallized my interest in advancing social justice through community-based work. Since completing the MSW, my work has centered around transforming child mental health systems through the development of trauma-informed integrated service delivery models and programs. Twenty years later, I continue to be grateful for the opportunity to engage in such meaningful work. What interested you in the position at UC Berkeley School of Social Welfare? As a Southern California social worker, I was always drawn to the diversity and vibrant culture of the Bay Area. When I had the opportunity to move to Northern California, Berkeley Social Welfare’s diverse community and innovative faculty really captured my attention. The program’s focus on multi-level practice, leadership, and evidence-informed practice were well aligned with my experience and areas of interest. Since joining the faculty [as a community lecturer] in 2018, I have enjoyed engaging with colleagues and students, and feel grateful for the opportunity to be part of this forward-thinking and compassionate community. Describe a few high points of the year. The unprecedented challenges of this year have highlighted the many strengths of our faculty and students and have served as high points. Faculty have demonstrated tremendous adaptability as they meet the needs of this historic period by engaging more deeply with issues of racism and anti-racist social work practice, while simultaneously transforming their teaching methods to adapt to the global pandemic. Students have also demonstrated immense flexibility and resilience as they shifted to virtual learning environments and navigated a year full of uncertainty, while remaining deeply committed to advancing social justice. The tenacity of this cohort of students brings a deep sense of hope regarding their ability to impact future change. What is one skill you think every social worker needs? Creativity is an important skill that social workers are continuously engaged in across all levels of practice. The complexity of problems that social workers routinely address requires original thinking and approaching problems in new and transformative ways. Creativity creates room for deeper collaborative dialogues and brings greater curiosity to our work. This skill has helped me meet many complex moments with greater flexibility, openness, and imagination.

NEW FACES Carla Richmond, LCSW Field Consultant and Lecturer Carla Richmond, LCSW, obtained her MSW from Hunter College in 2000. In her 20 years of practice experience, she has focused on trauma treatment in a wide variety of settings including juvenile, adult, community, and mental health settings. She remains employed at UCSF’s Trauma Recovery Center as Co-coordinator of Training while she leads field seminar and oversees practicum for a second-year AWELL cohort. When did you know you wanted to pursue a career in social welfare? I started on the path to social work in my first year undergrad at Columbia University. I trained and volunteered as a rape crisis counselor at a nearby hospital.That put me on the path to Women’s Studies (now Gender Studies), feminism, anti violence and anti-oppression activism and social work. What interested you in the position at UC Berkeley School of Social Welfare? I have been a Field Instructor with the privilege of supervising Berkeley Social Welfare students for 13 years. I’ve been admiring [Director of Field Education] Greg Merrill and the UC Berkeley field team and knew I wanted to teach. I feel very lucky to be working with such an amazing and dedicated group of instructors.

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Describe a few high points of the year. Doing the two-part Towards Anti-Racist Field Instruction training with my peers. Sitting in on the wonderful, engaging and informative topical presentations by my field seminar students. Attending weekly field instructor staff meetings that are more fun than I ever imagined, and getting to know and learn from my colleagues. What is one skill you think every social worker needs? Compassionate self-analysis and self-regulation. (That’s two but I think they’re related.) If you had the chance to add one book to every Berkeley Social Welfare student’s curriculum, what would it be, and why? It’s an article that I continue to reflect on and it would be for students and field instructors: Tema Okun’s on White Supremacy Culture.

NEW FACES Robert Watts, LCSW, PPSC Field Consultant and Lecturer Field Consultant and Lecturer Robert Watts obtained his MSW from Berkeley in 2013. In addition to several years of employment at Seneca Family of Agencies as a counselor and therapist, Robert was a leading social worker at New Haven Unified School District (Union City, CA), where he specialized in coordination of services, trauma-informed and restorative practices, as well as the implementation of social and emotional development. Robert also has a private practice where he focuses on working with adults of color on managing stress, relationships, and challenges related to communication, identity and self-esteem. When did you know you wanted to pursue a career in social welfare? After working a corporate job for a few years after undergrad, I wanted to do something with my life that had more of an impact especially with young people of color. Being of service to others has been something that was instilled in me at a young age by my parents and grandparents, so I knew that if I wanted to be happy in a career it had to involve doing something that focused on using my privilege to give back to others. So, on a whim I applied for a job working with Seneca Family of Agencies at a school in Berkeley. It was my introduction to mental and behavioral health, and the profession of school-based social work. During my years at Seneca I learned the power of building relationships, the power of narratives, and the power of using my voice to influence the outcomes for young people within the public school system. It was during these two years that I knew I wanted to be a social worker, and more than 10 years later here I am!

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What interested you in the position at UC Berkeley School of Social Welfare? I wanted an opportunity to contribute to the profession on a larger scale. I especially wanted to bring the perspective of a Black male social worker to the School. During my time as a student I learned a lot of great principles and practices for becoming a professional social worker, but I didn’t get the opportunity to explore specific strategies for engaging and working with individuals and families from my community, or how to address the pressure of being a service provider that is represented in the communities I serve. My biggest goal in returning to Berkeley Social Welfare is to create more intentional training and development around the specific challenges impacting Black communities in the U.S., and how social workers of diverse backgrounds need to prepare themselves for being an ally. I also hope that through these efforts I can work with other members of the faculty to increase the awareness around the field of social welfare in the Black community, create more opportunities for the recruitment of Black social workers, and establish a program that can support and elevate them within the SSW and the profession as a whole. Describe a few high points of the year. This year has easily been one of the most challenging of my career. Starting my first year with the School completely remote has pushed me in ways I never could imagine, but it has been filled with many bright moments. The biggest highlight of the year has been the level of support and encouragement I have received from the Field Faculty and the Dean’s Office. There are not too many times in my life I have felt as welcomed as I have this year. I am also grateful for the ways in which my students have embarrassed me, especially my second-year cohort. Switching their field consultant in the middle of their two-year program is a lot, and they did it with grace. Lastly, it has been a joy to work with students on realizing their full potential. I have had the privilege of getting to know some talented students this year, and help them begin to form their identity as social workers, and how they want to wield that power. What is one skill you think every social worker needs? Humility. It is imperative that social workers are open to critically reflecting on the way in which they show up in the world, and work every day to grow. Humility allows other people’s experiences of us to inform how we can be most effective for them, and most disruptive for racist and oppressive systems. Humility allows us to remain in community with those we hope to support, and allows for their voice to echo louder than our own agenda.

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Digital Support

Digital Health Equity and Access Lab creates free texting program to help communities cope with COVID-19 stress

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From “BUILDING A BETTER BAY AREA: UC Berkeley lab creates free texting program to help people cope with COVID-19 stress” by ABC7 Jobina Fortson

“We want to target the folks with the fewest resources, in terms of services available and things like that,” Dr. Aguilera said. “But, it really is open to everybody.” The free program is called StayWell at Home. Participants receive daily texts for 60 days that provide tips on managing the stress of social distancing and stay-at-home orders. “This program is based in cognitive behavioral therapy which has years of research behind it in terms of showing effectiveness for improving symptoms of mental health such as depression and anxiety,” Aguilera said. “The focus is on changing our thinking so it’s more helpful for us, and more adaptive in a situation.”

“The worries often times in the immigrant community is sharing information, and we really will not,” Harro continued. “We won’t know who you are. This is really just something that we hope can help at a population level.” Program participants have the ability to opt into a study on the texts. It’s not required and is still anonymous. The research will be used down the line to analyze the mental health impacts of the pandemic. At the end of the 60 days, participants that opt into the study will receive a $20 gift card. For more information on StayWell at Home, visit dheal.berkeley.edu. •

“The focus is on changing our thinking so it’s more helpful for us, and more adaptive in a situation.” Participants receive texts such as: “You are a wonderful human doing the best you can in a difficult situation. What are three things you are grateful for?” or “Make a list of people that make you happy. Commit to reaching out to at least one of them each day this week.” “They are centered on coping skills and behavioral activation, so it’s just really important to occupy our minds with things other than the coronavirus,” said Alein Harro, a health policy doctoral student at UC Berkeley. Harro wants the program to reach as many Latinos and immigrants as possible. Throughout California, Latinos account for 56% of COVID-19 cases and 47% of deaths, which is disproportionately high compared to the population share of Latinos, which is 39%.

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A CHANGE IS GONNA COME RACE & SOCIAL JUSTICE AT BERKELEY SOCIAL WELFARE

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“The pandemic lays bare what we already knew,” Associate Professor Tina Sacks said in a radio interview about the impact of racial inequity during the pandemic and the vaccine rollout. In the wake of the George Floyd protests, Dean Linda Burton asked the Berkeley Social Welfare community “What is going to be different tomorrow given that all you are responding to today has been within eye- and ear-shot for centuries?” While injustice has indeed been in plain sight for centuries, it has come to the foreground in new ways this past year. How has Berkeley Social Welfare responded to the current racial reckoning? And as we look forward, how do we balance calls for immediate change with the “long game” of addressing structural racism and creating equitable policies and institutions?

LOOKING OVER THE YEAR One aspect of the school’s educational response involved bringing in a series of speakers to discuss issues of structural inequality, policy, and advocacy. In Dean Burton’s words, “I want us all to be aware of and know the history of racism and social injustice in this country and what it looks like in everyday life.” Ambassador Attallah Shabazz, the eldest daughter of Malcolm X, and sociologist Crystal Fleming, the author of How to Be Less Stupid About Race: On Racism, White Supremacy and the Racial Divide, were both invited to speak to Berkeley Social Welfare in Fall 2020. Other speakers included social entrepreneur Trabian Shorters, social justice philanthropy expert Edgar Villanueva, president and CEO of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute Marco Davis, and Ty-Ron Douglas, UC Berkeley’s Associate Athletic Director for Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging. Social welfare students organized events as well: CalARC arranged for an evening with Melanated Social Work, and the Asian and Pacific Islander caucus organized a speaker series including Julian Chun-Chung Chow and former faculty member Susana Fong. Val Sierra helped organize UC Berkeley’s Inaugural Indigenous Sound Studies Symposium. Over the past year, our faculty have contributed to public conversations around social justice and equity. Some of that has taken the form of public-facing scholarship, as with Erin Kerrison’s talks on “Imagining a Future without Police” and “Community Surveillance

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in the Time of COVID-19: Civilian and Police Officer Adaptations for Staying Safe,” Tina Sacks’s lecture “Social Safety Net Crisis: Lessons from a Pandemic,” Kurt Organista’s talk “California Latinxs, COVID-19 & Pandemics: Making Vulnerability of ‘Essential Workers’ Visible” and Linda Burton’s article “COVID-19: Health disparities and social determinants of health.” Doctoral student Demond Hill’s op-ed, “A Letter from my Inner Black Child,” will be published by the Greater Good Science Center and he was invited to contribute to the GGSC podcast series to speak about the importance of play as a liberatory tool for Black children and adults. Faculty members also made their voices heard through the media: Anu Manchikanti Gómez was quoted in The Atlantic on the pandemic’s anticipated disparate impact on birth rates, Tina Sacks spoke with NBC Bay Area, Today, and CNN about racial disparities in health care and vaccine access, and Adrian Aguilera spoke with KQED’s Forum and with New York Magazine about digital equity in mental health care. Faculty research has never been separate from issues of social justice — it’s the nature of the field, and a concern for equity has guided the school since its inception. Although the intersection between equity and race is addressed in most of our faculty members’ work, it is foregrounded in Erin Kerrison’s work on legal epidemiology (particularly the effect of policing practices on communities of color), Tina Sacks’s examination of structural racism in medical care, and Adrian Aguilera’s and Kurt Organista’s work on behavioral health in Latinx communities. Our doctoral students are adding to the academic conversation as well. Demond Hill presented his research on “Moving Towards Freedom: Locating Liberation in Black Youth Workers and CommunityBased Education Spaces” to the school in October and published an article entitled “‘Traditions Are Not for Me’: Curriculum, Alternative Schools, and Formerly Incarcerated Young Black Men’s Academic Success.” The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation selected Monica de la Cruz as a Health Policy Research Scholar for her work on ways to ameliorate family poverty as a means to positively impact children’s health, specifically for communities of color.

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SPORTS AS A TOOL FOR SOCIAL CHANGE Berkeley Social Welfare’s Social Welfare, Sports, and Society Initiative — the first of its kind in a school of social welfare — will integrate social work knowledge and practice both with the sports industry and with community advocacy, policy, and research. The ultimate goal is to improve the lives and well-being of athletes of all ages and the communities they serve through nonprofits. Our interdisciplinary approach includes several campus partners: Cal Athletics, Haas School of Business, the Graduate School of Education, Berkeley Law, and UC Berkeley’s new division of Computing, Data Science, and Society.

The Social Welfare and Sports Initiative has four main objectives:

Enhance athletes’ skill sets in navigating life and managing family and work before, during, and after their athletic experiences.

Combine sports, social welfare and social justice as a platform for building community.

Increase and diversify the social welfare workforce by leveraging this initiative as a pipeline to recruit more men of color to the profession as a whole.

Establish the Institute on Sports and Social Welfare (ISSW) as a hub for research, training, and practice. In a first phase, Berkeley Social Welfare will develop a Sport and Wellness certificate within the MSW program. The curriculum will emphasize social advocacy, research, case coordination, counseling, policy development, and physical, behavioral, and mental health issues that emerge for athletes across the life course. We will also be developing executive education for community leaders and former athletes with a focus on building community programs that lead to social change, and increasing ability to engage in political advocacy. In the longer term, we will create the Institute on Sports and Social Welfare (ISSW). Grounded in social justice and equity, ISSW will be a hub for research, training, and practice for issues that athletes face from childhood to retirement, including K-12 and collegiate educational settings as well as professional athletic organizations. ISSW will also focus on the social policies that shape the lives of athletes and their families as well as the structures and practices of organizations that house athletic enterprises. In addition, it will explore and implement ways that sports fortify communities.

photo: Robert Watts III, Charmin Smith, Ashley Bryant, Bobby Thompson, and Devon Lewis Buchanan discuss career options for MSWs working with athletes during the Women in Academic Development symposium.

LOOKING AHEAD The history of social work and the history of UC Berkeley are not separate from structural racism. Part of the path forward will involve fully understanding those legacies, which is one reason why Lecturer and Field Consultant Jennifer Jackson, Tina Sacks, and MSW student Shatesha Morris have begun an oral history project to record the experiences and accomplishments of Black alums, faculty, and staff. The project is still in a pilot phase, but we look forward to seeing it grow. The school’s sports, wellness, and social justice initiative is another facet of the effort to explore issues of race. Sports provides an incredible opportunity to examine issues of race. Colin Kaepernick is only one figure in a line that includes 1968 Olympians Tommie Smith and John Carlos, Venus and Serena Williams, Muhammed Ali, Wilma Rudolph, Jackie Robinson, and so many others. Both in individual interactions and individuals interacting with institutions and groups, sports offers a lens into the tensions faced by athletes — especially athletes of color — face in the sports industry and in other social structures. Social work with athletes and their families also provides opportunities to recognize strengths and address behavioral health struggles. Both current and former athletes can carry with them a number of circumstances including adverse childhood experiences, chronic pain, and challenges in transitioning to new employment after an athletic career has ended — all of which fall within the purview of social welfare. Among precollegiate athletes, sports can provide a framework for a strengths-based approach in schools and community organizations. In the words of Dr. Emmett Gill, founding member of the Alliance of Social Workers in Sports, “sports is a form of social work” and an MSW can create and enrich opportunities in working with athletes.

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As a first foray into this promising field, Berkeley Social Welfare offered a full day of programming during the Women in Academic Development symposium in April. Presenters included Dean Linda Burton, Lecturer and Field Consultant Robert Watts III, Cal Head Women’s Basketball Coach Charmin Smith, Cal Cameron Institute Interim Director of Operations Bobby Thompson, and Dr. Robert Turner, whose lab at George Washington University studies athletes’ neurological and psychological health. See page 17 for a full description of the social welfare, sports and society initiative. Conversations around racial justice are also informed by hiring practices — by who has a seat at the table. Since 2012, six of the eight senate faculty members hired have been women of color. Three newly-created faculty positions will focus on marginalized communities: Native Americans, Latinx populations, and Anti-Racism in America. These appointments will be completed by June 2022. Thanks to John Wilson and Beclee Newcomer Wilson’s generous gift (see p. 35) the school will also create a permanent postdoc position focusing on issues of social justice as well as an annual lecture series. Of course, recruiting and training a more diverse social welfare workforce is also key. In her essay on page 20, Dean Burton shares her thinking about the need for more men of color in social work along with some of the community organizations we are currently building ties with. Dean Burton’s vision of the work ahead of us is grounded in education, in research, in policy, in practice, and in advocacy. As she wrote in a message to the school community last summer:

“...social justice and equality are greatly compromised by us not asking those under-theradar questions that also result in the senseless deaths of many who are on the margins.” – Dean Linda Burton

“We can contribute to advancing human capital by personally being knowledgeable about the antecedents, processes, and outcomes involved in the pandemics and providing others with those skills. We can also use our understanding of the issues and our social capital to facilitate the necessary people being at the table as decisions and policies are made about our future. In doing so, we have to be able to ask a broad range of questions about “structural violence.” For example, we can ask the hard-hitting questions about defunding the police, but we also have to ask questions like, “Why are those in marginalized populations all too often NOT included in clinical trials to evaluate medications that

save people’s lives? You see, social justice and equality are greatly compromised by us not asking those under-theradar questions that also result in the senseless deaths of many who are on the margins.” Building a more just world is a long game, and Berkeley Social Welfare is a work in progress. But the work to be done is anchored in the core strengths of the school, and we — leadership, faculty, researchers, students, and staff — are committed to increasing structural equity both • within and beyond the School.

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SOCIAL WORK NEEDS MORE MEN OF COLOR

The Social Welfare, Sports, and Society program aims to attract more men of color to lead in social work by DEAN LINDA BURTON first featured in Resolve Magazine

One of the things I remember noticing from when I was a child growing up in Compton, California, was that African American boys seemed to keep disappearing. I grew up during the height of gang warfare in Compton, and as I got older, it felt like there were fewer and fewer African American boys and men in our community. As a young girl, I remember thinking, Where are they going? To a large extent, seeking an answer to that question has driven my career as a social scientist for the past 40 years. When I attended college and graduate school in Los Angeles, I sought to address that question and conducted ethnographic research in South Central Los Angeles and Compton neighborhoods to find answers. My research allowed me to trace the lives of young African American boys and their families from neighborhoods like mine, and I witnessed what happened to them when they were drawn into the social welfare and criminal justice systems. I continued to explore this question for decades in economically disadvantaged neighborhoods in Boston,

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Chicago, San Antonio, and rural and small town Pennsylvania and North Carolina. In doing this work, I continued to notice the absence of men of color, not just in these communities, but also in the ranks of those who surveilled African American boys and directed them into the criminal justice and social welfare systems. Women, most often White women, were typically filling those roles and directing the cases of African American males, which shaped their lives in ways the social workers didn’t fully grasp. As a consequence, I observed that they often fell short of providing these young males with the guidance and support that was critical to their positive growth and development. While exact figures are hard to come by, the Council on Social Work Education reports that only 11.9 percent of social work Bachelor’s degree recipients between 2018 and 2019 were men. Based on the rate at which African Americans graduated with BAs in social work in those same years, we can estimate that only 2 percent of all BA recipients were African

American men, while African American males comprise roughly 6 percent of the US population. If the UC Berkeley Master’s in Social Welfare program is representative of the field more broadly, African American men are entering the field at an even lower rate than this. In 2020, we had only one African American MSW student enter our program, which is comprised of more than 200 students. In 2019, the number was the same. In the two years before that, there were no African American men who enrolled in our program. Meanwhile, the gap in representation of African American men as social workers is punctuated by the fact that men of color are overrepresented as clients in the field of social welfare. In the child welfare system, for example, African American children make up 24 percent of young people in foster care while comprising only 13 percent of the child

the title of “social worker.” One obvious example of this is found at every level of sports, where coaches guide and care for their players, just as social workers do for their clients. In recognition of this, our school is in the process of launching its Social Welfare, Sports, and Society Initiative aimed at training athletes to work in the field of social welfare before, during, and after their athletic careers, while also building a platform for improving the representation of men of color in the field as a whole. Our ultimate goal is to launch a Master’s in Social Wefare program with a focus on the specific areas of overlap between social work and sports — social advocacy, policy development, physical, behavioral, and mental health issues that athletes are confronted with — and to establish the first

“...so many men of color are already involved in their communities and practicing social work, albeit without the title of “social worker.” population in the country, according to the US Children’s Bureau. If we look at the penal system, we find that African American men are imprisoned at a rate roughly six times higher than that of White men in the United States. This fundamental gap in representation of men of color is responsible for a tremendous loss in our ability to best serve this critical population. One obvious way this plays out is that the absence of African American men as social workers deprives social work clients of male role models of the same racial or cultural background. Affirmative identity development is another critical function that only men of color can truly provide their Black and Brown male clients, and studies have shown that those African American boys who grow into manhood and are most successful all have a strong idea of their individual and cultural identities, and their identities as men. They develop this through watching other Black male leaders and role models. There’s also a form of accountability that men, particularly men of color, can hold for other men of color and boys that gets lost when we don’t see men of color in the social work field. Moreover, Black men need to be at the table to inform social policy and social programs. We need their specific knowledge and their voices in the room in order to come to the best decisions about how to tailor our work to make the most difference in people’s lives. The irony behind the underrepresentation of men of color in our field is that our men are so often magnificent caregivers. So many of them learned naturally to care for younger siblings or other family members. Still, that’s typically not the story we hear on the evening news about men of color. What’s more, so many men of color are already involved in their communities and practicing social work, albeit without

ever Institute on Sports and Social Welfare in the country.In the longer term, our school is investing in building a pipeline to bring more men of color into our classrooms. In my experience, it’s most often the case that African American men have never even considered social work as an option for a career path, but when you sit down and talk to them about the things they’re interested in and whether or not social work would be a good fit, it checks all the boxes. Our goal in building our pipeline is to work with students starting in middle school in order to get them interested in the field. To that end, we’re forming partnerships with organizations like Kingmakers of Oakland, A Hundred Black Men of the Bay Area, and several East Bay public school systems to begin planting that seed and also to ensure that the people who end up coming to our school are prepared for the rigors of the program. The aim, first and foremost, is to recruit young men from the Bay Area who can build that strength and reinvest in our communities here and throughout California. Right now, our country has so many difficult and tangled issues we’re facing. How do we address the racial reckoning that has been made so apparent in the wake of the brutal deaths of so many Black men and women? How do we move on from the ongoing economic strain caused by a pandemic that’s hit our communities of color so deeply? We can all see we have to do something. As social welfare professionals, we have chosen to be the people to do something about it. As Americans, we must all do better to protect our men of color and keep them from disappearing from our communities. For those of us working in social welfare, that means we need to work diligently to recruit more men of color into our field. •

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Katie Savin (PhD ‘21) examines equity, disability, and economic justice from a community-based lens

As a medical social worker, Katie Savin was struck by the differences in patient experience between her work in the Stanford Medical Center ICU and in palliative care at San Francisco General. “The two hospitals were only one CalTrain stop apart, but it could have been two different countries. There was such a contrast between how people were dying; patients’ average age, their stage of illness at the time of diagnosis, and the kind of support they had.” When she was contemplating a career change, she initially considered pursuing a career in medicine, then realized she was more interested in exploring the underlying policy issues that gave rise to the disparities she had witnessed. When Savin began the doctoral program at Berkeley in 2016, she initially planned to explore the end-of-life care experience for marginalized groups. But the persistent assumption that as a disabled scholar she must be a scholar of disability led to a shift in research focus when she received funding from the Social Security Administration to study how people living on SSI or SSDI benefits make ends meet. In a report for the Social Security Administration, “Being on SSI is a Full-Time Job:” How SSI and SSDI Beneficiaries Work Around and Within Labor Incentive Programs,” Savin highlighted the experiences and economic survival strategies of 13 SSI/DI recipients living in the Bay Area. Her report centers the lived experience of disabled people in a system that defines them in relation to their ability to participate in formal labor markets. The study participants were diverse in age, gender, race, and ethnicity, but what they all had in common was the impossibility of making ends meet in the Bay Area on SSI/DI benefits, which are not adjusted for regional cost of living. Savin outlined strategies

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used by these adults for additional income, stressing that all of them were forced to go outside of the system to survive. She also highlighted the study participants’ wish for improved access to education as well as wider conceptualization of work in recognition of unpaid labor they engaged in such as volunteering or activism. In the larger study on this topic that she conducted for her dissertation, “‘Playing the Game’ on SSI and SSDI Benefits: How Social Security Administration Policy Shapes the Individual, Societal and Communal Disability Experience,” she concluded with a series of recommendations for social work practice, policy and research. Her policy recommendations included addressing work disincentives (e.g. the practice of subtracting $0.50 for each $1.00 earned from SSI benefits); eliminating administrative differences between SSI and SSDI that penalize SSI recipients (e.g., the $2,000 asset limit); placing restrictions on SSA’s ability to recoup overpayments; developing pathways for SSA-based employment for beneficiaries; and other policy changes to lessen administrative burden and improve living conditions for people living on SSI and SSDI. Savin describes this aspect of her work as a kind of translation or code-switching: “I take policy fixes that are intuitive to people who are impacted by systems and programs, and put them in different wrappings for the people who are making decisions about those policies.” She expanded on this initial study in her dissertation — directed by Associate Professor Tina Sacks — which had a larger sample group and examined social questions as well as economic ones. In a capitalist society, she wondered, how does an inability to work due to disability impact a person’s sense of self?

The inability to work in a society that defines people in terms of their participation in the labor market can have profound psychic consequences: study participants reported feeling “invisible” and “less than human.”

contacted by San Francisco General Hospital and consulted with them as they reviewed their crisis standards of care. They now have a disabled person on their ethics board, which was not the case before.

While many current policies are rooted in a medical, deficit-based model — one that defines disability in terms of a biology of what individuals cannot do — Savin’s research employs the political model of disability to conceptualize anyone participating in the SSI and SSDI programs as disabled, regardless of impairment type, in order to explore the effects of SSA policy on the disability experience. The policies SSI/SSDI beneficiaries must follow to maintain benefits such as income and asset caps, work-reporting mandates and limitations, policy ramifications of marriage, as well as the process of accessing and maintaining benefits, create the unifying experiences that characterize this group of disabled adults. At a more fundamental level, she examines policy through a person-centered lens to highlight areas where federal policy shapes and reinforces the stigmatized and exclusionary disability experience.

Savin wonders whether the pandemic may shift attitudes about illness and disability, especially as we learn more about the longterm effects of COVID. Meanwhile, the barriers she encountered at Cal — like being assigned to teach in a classroom she couldn’t enter in her wheelchair and being unable to access the doctoral students’ lounge for over a year until the door was at last adjusted — were substantial enough that she considered leaving the program on multiple occasions.

In April 2020, as hospitals were contending with the possibility of having to ration care due to the pandemic, Savin was an early voice in helping define the ethics of crisis standards of care, particularly with respect to disability. In a blog post for the Hastings Center, “Confronting Disability Discrimination During the Pandemic,” Savin and co-author Laura Guidry-Grimes highlighted the ableism that has historically characterized medical care. They referenced studies showing that disabled people typically rate their own quality of life higher than non-disabled

Commenting on the paradox of encountering ableism on a campus that is often celebrated as the birthplace of the disability rights movement, Savin says “it’s not necessarily a testament to the institution as much as to what happens when some really stubborn, feisty disabled people gather under the right circumstances and have the amount of access to privilege and information that comes at a place like Cal.” “I feel like I got my degree in administrative battles,” she jokes. Looking back at progress made in the last five years, though, she comments that “it feels like a different university.” One significant change is the creation of a Disabled Students Cultural Center. Along with undergraduate student organizer Alena Morales in what is now the ASUC Disabled Students Commission, Savin co-led the fight to establish this space. To realize the Center, they held community town hall events, created

“I take policy fixes that are intuitive to people who are impacted by systems and programs, and put them in different wrappings for the people who are making decisions about those policies.” people do — including medical providers — and cited examples of ableism leading to undertreatment and health care disparities. Savin and Guidry-Grimes contrasted two definitions of equity: was equity achieved when the most lives were saved? Or when all patients have an equal chance of receiving maximum care? They then made a set of concrete recommendations to reduce ableist bias in crisis planning. These included making crisis standards of care available for public comment; involving disabled communities in crisis planning; training triage teams on avoiding discrimination against persons with disabilities; and avoiding both diagnostic criteria and perceptions of quality of life in any scoring system for triage. These same guidelines would also protect older patients in a kind of “universal design” that acknowledges disability as a normal part of the life course. The post was widely read and cited, and recommendations like transparent processes for community input were adopted by a number of hospitals. Savin was

multiple proposals, led rallies, and served on multiple committees such as the Disability Community Center subcommittee of the Vice Provost’s Space and Capital Improvement committee. Her activism was not limited to campus: when the elderly and people with disabilities were left to make their own arrangements during the PG&E power shutoffs in Fall 2019, Savin helped organize mutual aid networks so people who still had power could connect with those who needed electricity to charge wheelchair batteries and fill oxygen tanks. As she gets ready to file her dissertation, Savin has already begun teaching at University of the Pacific’s Sacramento campus, where she is assistant clinical professor in the School of Health Science’s social work program. She is helping develop a recently created sub-specialization in diabetes care and management within the healthcare specialization of UOP’s MSW program. For Savin, whose first exposure to the field of social work was as a pediatric • diabetes patient, it feels like things have come full circle.

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Brian McGhee (BASW ’91) on school social work and West Oakland community power

When the pandemic closed schools in March 2020, Brian McGhee found himself bagging breakfasts and lunches for students at West Oakland Middle School and providing other support at McClymonds High School. As a social worker, he knew that “once we feed families, then we can talk about educating our families.” He made sure students had computers and tech support. He kept an eye on students’ mental and emotional health as they adapted to remote learning. He worried about students who had been struggling before the pandemic: “If they were struggling while we were in person, how can you get them to log on at home and sit there for hours and stay engaged?” As the pandemic stretched on through summer 2020, McGhee went above and beyond for families experiencing food insecurity: he raised funds to hire a chef so that families received a week’s worth of fresh ingredients and recipes. In short, he made sure that students knew someone was looking out for them.

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In his current role as Program Manager for African American Male Achievement in the Oakland Unified School District’s Office of Equity, McGhee supports academic success, social and emotional learning, family engagement, and wraparound care when possible. Whether students choose a path towards college or direct entry into a career, he wants them to be wellprepared. In short — as he puts it — he wants to “make sure that this community, which has been underserved for years, gets what they need to be successful.” His advocacy on behalf of students extends to families as well. Would job training or a GED for a parent give them more opportunities? Does a family need housing assistance? McGhee looks beyond kids and classrooms to take a holistic view of students’ needs. After a year of remote learning, he continues to focus on questions of equity, engagement, and meeting students where they are. “If we can continue to engage our kids, and be creative around how we teach them, and meet them where they are, then they will start building on success, week by week and month by month.”

“If we can continue to engage our kids, and be creative around how we teach them, and meet them where they are, then they will start building on success, week by week and month by month.” His strong roots in West Oakland augment his connection to students. His family has lived there for 75 years. His mom Hattie worked for the US Postal Service throughout her career, and his father Clarence Sr. worked in auto manufacturing. His parents graduated from McClymonds; so did his six older brothers and sisters. In addition to having a strong family history, he also gives much gratitude and fondness to his high school sweetheart Relonda McGhee. Relonda is also a social worker and received her BA from CSU East Bay and her MSW from San Francisco State University. “Relonda has been a great supporter of my work in the community of West Oakland for the last 30 years. She is well connected in the community and has provided me with encouragement, strength, love, and a willingness to advise when needed. We have been married for 30 years and she has been my support from the very beginning of my professional career.” As a child, he attended after-school programs organized by the Black Panther Party. “I didn’t know what political thing was behind it, but I knew there were people who looked like me, cared about me, fed me after school, read to me and told me it was important to know who you are and where you come from.” A star quarterback at McClymonds, he drew a lot of attention from college recruiters but was clear-eyed about the value of a college degree. A 1985 news interview shows a teenaged McGhee saying “I’m not going to be an athlete forever.” He chose UC Berkeley in part so that he could give back to the community while he was a student. He played football from 1985 to 1990 — forging lifelong friendships both on and off the field — and remains grateful to coach Joe Kapp for recruiting him. He chose Social Welfare as a major in part because he connected the material in his social welfare classes to his lived experience, from seeing others in his neighborhood get caught up in the crack epidemic to getting stopped by police in a case of mistaken identity. Thinking about the aspects of his upbringing that had instilled resilience, he wanted to help others build that same resilience. “The bottom line is that I wanted to go help my community.” After graduation and a brief stint playing All-Star football in Japan, McGhee enrolled in the MSW program at San Francisco State. Since earning his MSW, he has worked with Alameda County’s Office of Social Services and Office of Education as well as Casey Family Programs. The experience he gained in

those roles are an asset in his current role with OUSD. Not only does he have experience as a frontline care provider for kids in the juvenile justice system and foster care system, but he knows that showing kids you care is the bedrock of any relationship with them. He is conscious of the power of example and representation as he goes about his job. His years playing football give him credibility when he tells students that even the strongest athlete needs a backup plan when only 2% of college athletes go on to play professionally. And as a McClymonds alum who graduated from UC Berkeley and went on to earn an advanced degree, his words of encouragement carry added weight. He remembers one young woman whom he met when she was in eighth grade at Westlake Middle School. At the time, he told her she had what it takes to go to UC Berkeley. She went on to do well at McClymonds, get accepted to Cal with an academic scholarship, and earn her degree from UC Berkeley. She later shared with him that his “planting the seed” encouraged her to set her sights on Berkeley. Comments like that, he says, make him realize how much he can touch people’s lives. As a member of the Dean’s Alumni Advisory Board, McGhee’s first-hand perspective can help inform the social welfare and sports initiative that is taking shape. He is also a strong supporter of Dean Burton’s efforts to enroll more students from underrepresented groups — with a particular emphasis on addressing the need for more Black men in the profession of social work — and ensure that students feel welcomed and valued within the School. Asked about Brian’s greatest strength, his wife Relonda cited his selflessness and the many connections that he has built over the years. “His connection to every era in the West Oakland community — from elders to parents to kids — really helps him make a difference.” We are proud to count him as part of the Berkeley Social Welfare community. •

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Assistant Dean of Admissions + Student Services Bob Teague, Assistant Dean for Admissions and Student Services, is retiring this spring after 11 years at Berkeley Social Welfare and 22 years in the UC system. We asked him a few questions about his career and his time in Haviland Hall. This interview has been edited for length and clarity.

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You’re an MSW yourself, and you have spent most of your career working in social welfare departments and other university programs. Can you give a brief overview of your career? I don’t quite know what to make of having the arc of my career be bookended by two global pandemics. I got called to social work as a volunteer in a community-based AIDS organization in Houston in the late 80s, and that experience brought me to the profession of social work. Decades later, I’m kind of going out the same way that I came in. After I got my MSW from University of Texas in 1993, my first job was as a foster care Child Welfare Services worker in Washington, DC. I worked in an intensive reunification unit, where we were working on adoptions of high-need and special-needs kids. But I maintained connections with my graduate program, and when I saw an opening for a graduate advisor in the UT School of Social Work, I applied. So that’s how I ended up back at UT as an employee. I worked in that job for about four years, and then took a grant-funded position in the Texas Department of Health, Bureau of HIV/STD Prevention and Control, training healthcare providers in culturally competent care. When the grant ended I was offered a permanent job, but ultimately I decided to come to California [in 1999]. And that’s when I started at UCSF: I worked at San Francisco General Hospital on a federal Ryan White funded training project for 11 years. What brought you to UC Berkeley? In 2010, my husband Dan had a Berkeley MSW student doing a field placement at Lavender Seniors of the East Bay, while Dan was their Executive Director. So Dan was on the School’s mailing list and he shared the job announcement with me. I hadn’t been planning to leave UCSF, but the job sounded interesting… and about five interviews later, I came to Berkeley. What are some of the high points from your time here? I’m proud of some of the day-to-day improvements that make students’ experience easier, like [classroom] improvements in Haviland, implementing the new student information system, and improving funding for graduate students. One of the things I am most proud of is making meaningful contributions to the training of the professional Social Work workforce. I have had the pleasure and privilege of working with some pretty amazing students, and I have had the privilege of doing it at world-renowned institutions like San Francisco General, UT Austin, UCSF, and Cal. What are you most looking forward to in retirement? I am most looking forward to having the time to devote to my genealogy research and writing. Don’t be surprised if you see me lurking in the Oakland Family History Library or the Bancroft library, because archives of life in the early western United States are one of the specialties of the Bancroft. Do you have any words of wisdom for students or colleagues? My words of wisdom are pretty much what I say to applicants to graduate school: read and follow the directions. Don’t wait till the last minute. Know when to ask for help, and then ask for it. What do you think you’ll miss most? I will miss the day-to-day life of Haviland Hall and being on the Berkeley campus. I’m a huge, fervent supporter of public higher education, and I’m so humbled that I got to work at these great institutions in my career. I love the profession of social work and I’m glad I got to give back to it in some way.

HAVILAND BRIEFS FACULTY NOTES Associate Professor Adrian Aguilera launched the StayWell @ Home texting program to help people cope with the stress and anxiety of dealing with the COVID pandemic and social distancing. The program has enrolled over 500 people and Dr. Aguilera’s work on digital approaches to health equity has generated local and national news coverage. Recent publications from Dr. Aguilera’s Digital Health Equity and Access Lab (dHEAL), with postdoctoral researcher Caroline Figueroa and other co-authors, include “Differences in objectively measured daily physical activity patterns related to depressive symptoms in community dwelling women - mPED trial” forthcoming in Preventive Medicine Reports and “Adaptive learning algorithms to optimize mobile applications for behavioral health: guidelines for design decisions” in Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association. Professor Jill Duerr Berrick was honored by SSWR as a 2021 Fellow. SSWR Fellows are “members who have served with distinction… to advance, disseminate, and translate research that addresses issues of social work practice and policy and promotes a diverse, equitable and just society.” Following the launch of an effort to “abolish child welfare,” Dr. Berrick and colleagues published “Outcomes following child welfare services: What are they and do they differ for Black children?” in Journal of Public Child Welfare. Dr. Berrick also participated as a member of the “Women and Families Committee” for the Biden campaign. Assistant Professor Yu-Ling Chang published “The U.S. Safety net since the Great Recession: Trends and Reforms, 2007–2017” in Social Work and presented at SSWR on the gendered effects of Unemployment Insurance on subsequent employment outcomes among unemployed workers with children. Chang and colleagues also presented “Major means-tested and income support programs for the working class, 2009–2019” at the Institute for Research on Poverty’s 2021 conference. Professor Julian Chun-Chung Chow published a co-edited book Developmental Social Work: Dialogue with Social Innovation, a collection of peer-reviewed paper presentations at an international conference in Taiwan. Recent articles published with co-authors include include “Public health social work professional education and curriculum design: A competence-based analysis framework in Journal of East China University of Science and Technology, Social Science Edition, “Exploring public attitudes toward child abuse in mainland China: A sentiment analysis of China’s social media Weibo” in Children and Youth Services Review, and “Crisis and response of urban children under major health emergencies” in Social Security Studies. Dr. Chow was also a recipient of the 2020 Honorary Member for The Phi Tau Phi Scholastic Honor Society of the Republic of China. Associate Professor Emmeline Chuang and UCLA’s Nadereh Pourat received a $200,000 grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to explore how California counties responded to COVID-19 under the Whole Person Care Medicaid Pilot Program.

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Publications with co-authors include “Integrating health and human services in California’s Whole Person Care Medicaid 1115 Waiver Demonstration” in Health Affairs, “Deficits in advance care planning in patients with decompensated cirrhosis at liver transplant centers” in JAMA Internal Medicine, “Sustaining successful clinicalcommunity partnerships in medically underserved urban areas in Journal of Community Nursing, “Frontline worker perceptions of organizational supports to promote evidence use in private child welfare agencies in Child Welfare, and “Healthcare system hassles, access, and delaying care” in Healthcare. Professor and former dean Jeff Edleson led a webinar on “Domestic Violence in the Lives of Children” for the California Society for Clinical Social Work and gave a talk on “Children Exposed to Domestic Violence” as part of the San Francisco District Attorney’s Office domestic violence speaker series. With Lucy Carter Salcido, Edleson co-edited a special edition of Juvenile and Family Court Journal to commemorate the twentieth anniversary of the publication of his influential work “Effective Interventions in Domestic Violence and Child Maltreatment Cases: Guidelines for Policy and Practice,” commonly referred to as the Greenbook. The National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges also sponsored four webinars based on the special issue; the introductory webinar, led by Edleson and Salcido, had over 400 attendees. Professor of the Graduate School Eileen Gambrill published an article, “Avoidable Ignorance and the Politics and Ethics of Whistleblowing in Mental Health,” in a special theme issue of Journal of Ethics in Mental Health focusing on whistle-blowing in health and human services. Professor Neil Gilbert published “Friendly For Which Families: Experience of Family Friendly Policies Abroad” in The American Compass. He also published “Family-Sensitive Policy: Broadening the Conceptual Lens for Evaluating Social Protection” in Society with co-author Anis Brik and wrote the foreword to Sara J. Tai and Robert Griffiths’ book, Deconstructing Health Inequity: A Perceptual Control Theory Perspective. Associate Professor Anu Manchikanti Gómez received the prestigious Chancellor’s Award for Research in the Public Interest, which honors research by faculty that addresses critical needs and issues affecting local, state, national, or global communities. She was awarded a two-year, $621,196 grant from Arnold Ventures to establish the national level of unmet need for contraception that engages stakeholders from a variety of sectors to develop personcentered metrics to inform policy and public health programs. She will be involved in the evaluation of San Francisco’s Abundant Birth Project, the first unconditional income support intervention for pregnant people in the U.S. She was recognized by Arnold Ventures as one of the “women who are making history today by working to impact policy change.” Assistant Professor Erin Kerrison and co-authors published “The

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Educating with Courage: an online learning module for teachers

In Summer 2020 as teachers faced a return to school under unprecedented, unpredictable conditions, Berkeley Social Welfare set out to support K-12 educators with resources that supported effective learning by acknowledging and addressing student —and teacher — trauma amid a worldwide crisis. Professor Susan Stone, who is an expert on social work in education and its impact on vulnerable youth’s academic progress in schools, provided guidance and a theoretical framework. Doctoral students Keegan Freiburger and Demond Hill compiled the course content with support from an instructional technology consultant, and the module launched in fall. While relevant to the pandemic, its themes are adaptable for anyone working with students in challenging circumstances. The School plans to expand its e-learning offerings in coming years with other evidence-based online resources for K-12 educators. With support from outside funders, the program can continue to be offered to school districts and educators at no cost. View “Educating with Courage” at socialwelfare.berkeley.edu/learning-module

Baltimore moment: Race, place, and public disorder” in Journal of Crime and Justice and “Negative Illness Feedbacks: High-Frisk Policing Reduces Civilian Reliance on ED Services” in Health Services Research. She gave several public lectures including “Community Surveillance in the Time of COVID-19: Civilian, Social Worker, and Police Officer Adaptations for Staying Safe” with doctoral student Luca Suede Connolly, “Racial Injustice and Public Health” for the Exploratorium After Dark lecture series, and “Imagining a future without police” which appeared as a Berkeley Talks podcast. Kerrison was also interviewed by the San Francisco Chronicle, SF Weekly, and Yahoo News on issues of police brutality and over-policing. David Lindeman (DSW ‘80), CITRIS Health Director and affiliated faculty member, was appointed to the California Commission on Aging by Governor Gavin Newsom. Jim Midgley, former dean and Professor of the Graduate School, published a new book entitled Inequality, Social Protection and Social Justice. He was honored in December 2020 by his alma mater, the University of Cape Town, with an honorary doctorate

for his distinguished contribution to international social welfare, social policy and social development. This follows his honorary doctorates from the University of Johannesburg and the Polytechnic University of Madrid. Professor Osagie Obasogie was a panelist in Berkeley Conversations: “Update on COVID vaccines: Experts weigh in” and “Trumpsim and its discontents” and “Thinking about race, racism, and policing after the Chauvin verdict.” Professor Kurt Organista was inducted into the American Academy of Social Work and Social Welfare during the SSWR conference. He also spoke at SSWR as part of an invited symposium “Research with Latinx communities in Social Work: Challenges and Opportunities.” Tina Sacks was granted tenure and promoted to Associate Professor. Her work on racial inequities in health care reached national audiences, including CNN “When Black people are wary of vaccine, it’s important to listen and understand why,” Fortune magazine “We can’t ever go to the doctor with our guard down,”

Today “What is implicit bias? The invisible racism that makes Black women dread the doctor’s office,” Univision “La muerte de George Floyd revela las heridas abiertas del “pecado original” de EEUU: el racismo,” and AMA Ethics “How ancestral trauma informs patients’ health decision-making.” Recent talks include “Race and responsibility: a conversation on Black-Jewish relations and the fight for equal justice” with the Berkeley Conversations series and “Social Safety Net Crisis: Lessons from a Pandemic”. Professor of the Graduate School Steven Segal’s recent articles include “The utility of outpatient commitment: investigating the evidence” in International Journal of Law and Psychiatry, “Protecting health and safety with needed-treatment: The effectiveness of outpatient commitment” in Psychiatric Quarterly, and “Refugee trauma work: Effects on intimate relationships and vicarious posttraumatic growth” with Niveen Rizkalla in Journal of Affective Disorders. Associate Professor Valerie Shapiro was named Chair of the Coalition for the Promotion of Behavioral Health. Professor Jennifer Skeem’s recent publications with co-authors include “Neighborhood risk factors for recidivism: For whom do they matter?” in American Journal of Community Psychology, “Clarifying conceptions underlying adult psychopathy measures: A construct validity metric approach in Assessment and “Using Positive Emotion Training with maltreated youths to reduce anger bias and physical aggression.” Professor Skeem served as an invited panelist on national projects focused on advancing pretrial policy and research (Center for Effective Public Policy, 2021), the application of “just” risk assessment (Vanderbilt Law School, 2020), and data equity (New York University, 2020). She is Co-Principal Investigator (with Gina Vincent at UMass Medical Center) on a new three-year project funded by the National Institute of Justice; the project is designed to shed light on risk and protective factors for re-offending among justice-involved youth. Professor Skeem and Dr. Sharon Farrell are Co-Investigators on a new three-year project funded by the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention to evaluate the impact of an opioid prevention campaign for young adults who have been involved in the child welfare and justice systems. The Arnold Foundation awarded Skeem a new two-year grant to study the impact of fee repeal on adult probationers’ financial health and risk of reoffending. She is

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also partnering with the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts on a new series of studies that examine the impact of race on decision-making and outcomes across multiple stages of criminal justice processing. With Seneca Family Foundation and the GEMH Lab (at Radbound University), Skeem’s Risk Resilience Lab is launching a two-year project designed to develop and pilot test a “serious game” to prevent aggression and promote emotion regulation and prosocial behavior.

STUDENT NOTES: PhD Mayra Cazares was awarded a graduate research fellowship from the Greater Good Science Center in support of her project, “Multidimensional Resilience among Emerging Adults with a History in Foster Care: Magnifying Multi-level Strengths to Promote Positive Social Well-Being.” Douglas Epps had a policy brief published in the Berkeley Interdisciplinary Migration Initiative entitled “Between Home and Homeland: Redefining Cambodian American Identity Through Transnational Youth Activism.” Demond Hill published Lea, C.H., III; Crumé, H.J.; Hill, D. (2020) “Traditions Are Not for Me”: Curriculum, Alternative Schools, and Formerly Incarcerated Young Black Men’s Academic Success. Soc. Sci, 9, 233. His article “In the Meantime, In-Between Time: Abolition, Liberatory Futures, and The Role of Social Work[ers]” was accepted for publication in Advances in Social Work. Ryan Karnoski was appointed as a Junior Fellow of The Center for Applied Transgender Studies, the leading academic organization dedicated to scholarship on the social, cultural, and political conditions of transgender life. G. Allen Ratliff has accepted an Assistant Professor position in the Department of Family Science and Social Work at Miami University. Katie Savin accepted a position as assistant clinical professor in the social work program at University of the Pacific. For an overview of her recent work, please see the profile on page 22.

After 42 years of teaching and academic leadership, Jeffrey Edleson will retire in spring 2021. He plans to continue his research on the impact of adult domestic violence on children and to study cases involving mothers and children who flee across international borders seeking safety from abusers. He will also continue to consult with governmental and nonprofit organizations focused on preventing domestic violence, continue editing a book series and remain active on editorial boards of journals.

Angie Wootton was named a Doctoral Student Committee Member for the Society for Social Work and Research (SSWR) for the 2021-2022 term. Wootton is also working on a mixedmethods project exploring the impacts of the COVID pandemic on the behavioral health and wellbeing of lesbian, bisexual, and queer women. The first paper published from this project explored changes in alcohol and marijuana use during the pandemic.

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Kelly Ziemer published “A Solid Foundation: Building Children’s Self-Esteem During the COVID-19 Pandemic” in the Child and Family Blog.

STUDENT NOTES: MSW Nicole Balbuena presented research titled “Undocumented Victims of Intimate Partner Violence” at the Pacific Sociological Association. Nicole Balbuena, Moses Santos, and Ismari Maldonado are conducting research with the support of Code for America to investigate the structural barriers that government and nongovernment service providers face when providing digital services to the Latinx community before, during, and after the CalFresh application process. Daniela Medina worked in partnership with the Graduate Student Assembly and Berkeley Underground Scholars to create the Sylvia Bracamonte Memorial Scholarship for graduate student women of color at UC Berkeley. David Pan wrote a piece detailing traumatic experiences with microaggression as an Asian American: The Microaggression(s) Towards Asian Americans Needs To Stop.

STUDENT NOTES: BASW Kyana George (BASW ‘21), a member of the Cal Women’s Gymnastics Team, was named Regional Gymnast of the Year.

CENTER NOTES CalSWEC’s online 2021 Title IV-E Summit, whose theme was “Identifying the Structures that Hinder Anti-Racism Reform within Public Child Welfare,” drew nearly 400 IV-E partners and students from around the state. The Latinx Center of Excellence in Behavioral Health has provided a number of trainings and resources for behavioral health practitioners, including an online Introduction to Narrative Therapy course facilitated by Luna Calderón, an inclusive teaching faculty resource guide, a COVID-19 resource guide for behavioral health providers working with Latinx communities. In addition to offering the Sín Fronteras program virtually, the LCOEBH partnered with a language school in Oaxaca to offer online classes in technical Spanish for social workers.

As the pandemic forced us to reimagine our way of doing things, we created online alumni communities of practice. These regular events allow alums to engage with each other — and with current students — as professionals.

Watch your inbox as we continue the series in 2021 – 2022! Not getting our emails? Update your info at socialwelfare.berkeley.edu/ alumni/stay-touch

HONOR ROLL The Honor Roll lists donors who contributed to Berkeley Social Welfare From March 15, 2020 through March 15, 2021. We apologize for any inadvertent omissions or other errors and ask that you contact socialwelfare@berkeley.edu with any questions. Berkeley Social Welfare is grateful for your support. * Indicates a sustaining member.

$5,000+ Anonymous (1) Catherine Hutto Gordon BA ‘73 and Daniel Baker Lynn Jones Crook BA ‘68, C.Esing ‘69 and Christopher Crook BA ‘68, JD ‘71 Eileen Gambrill and Gail Bigelow MSW ‘87 In memory of David Hardcastle MSW ‘65 Art Hom BA ‘69, MSW ‘72 and Edna Hom Kristen and Daniel Ikenberg Marguerite Leach Johnson BA ‘60 and S. Allan Johnson BS ‘59, MBA ‘69 Lisa Sobrato Sonsini JD ‘91 and Matthew Sonsini JD ‘92 Beclee Newcomer Wilson MSW ‘90 and John Wilson

$1,000-$4,999 Anonymous (1) Sandra Auerback BA ‘67 Linda Burton Jae-Sung Choi PHD ‘94 Barbara Bradner Cornet BA ‘67, MSW ‘85, MPH ‘86 Diana Crook BA ‘70 and Peter Crook BA ‘70 Roger Daniels MSW ‘95 and Gregory Merrill Nobusuke Fukuda BA ‘55, MSW ‘68 and Fumi Fukuda Alison Geballe Andrew Gi BA ‘00 Marissa Kalan Gillette BA ‘03 and Matthew Gillette BS ‘03 Shaaron Gilson* Mary Ann Hamamura-Clark BA ‘68 and William Clark Cynthia Hecker C.EPP ‘05, MSW ‘05 and Peter Hecker JD ‘73 Benjamin Hom Sung-Dong Hwang PHD ‘91 and Jung-Wha Hwang David Kears BA ‘68, MSW ‘70 and Muriel Kears Ralph Kramer BA ‘42, Cred/Cert ‘43, MSW ‘46, DSW ‘64 Darrick Lam MSW ‘90, MBA ‘16* Seymour Lapporte Laura Liesem MSW ‘09 Barbara McCann BA ‘74 Abigail Nichols DSW ‘77 Kathy Pescetti

Mary Pittman MPH ‘80, DrPH ‘87, MCP ‘87 and David Lindeman MSW ‘80, DSW ‘87 Catharine Ralph Cred/Cert ‘77, MSW ‘77 and Norbert Ralph BA ‘69, MPH ‘80 Ashley Reilly BA ‘10 and Patrick Reilly BS ‘08 Paul Reisz BA ‘82 and Stephanie Reisz Socorro Reynoso MSW ‘10 Jessica Romm BA ‘65 Theresa Schrider MSW ‘89 Gail Splaver MPH ‘80, DSW ‘84 Susan Stone Kewei Sui MEng ‘20 Susan Chu Sung BA ‘69, MSW ‘72, DSW ‘77 and Oscar Sung BArch ‘69, MCP ‘72 Grace Telcs MSW ‘05 and Scott Siera PhD ‘08, JD’11 Gregory Wilson BA ‘86, MSW ‘89

$500-999 Anne-Therese Ageson BA ‘67 and John Hadreas BA ‘77 Veronica and Cedric Alexander Susan Ashley BA ‘62 and Andre Ashley BA ‘61 Michael Austin BA ‘64, MSW ‘66 and Susan Austin BA ‘64 Jill Duerr Berrick MSW ‘87, PhD ‘90 and Kenneth Berrick* Madeline Burnell MSW ‘84 and A. John Burnell Charles Cannon Heidi Chu BA ‘04 Gregory Evans MSW ‘86 and Diane Evans Leslee Feinstein BA ‘71 and Wayne Feinstein Norma Fong BA ‘75, MSW ‘79 Catherine Geanuracos MSW ‘98 Jewelle Taylor Gibbs MSW ‘70, MA ‘76, PhD ‘80 and James Gibbs Jr. Gregory Gordon BA ‘12 Ernest Hirose MSW ‘59 and Sylvia Hirose Linda Dougherty Lazzareschi BA ‘74, C.EPP ‘79, MSW ‘79, and Stephen Lazzareschi Jr. BA ‘74 Carrie Graham Lee MSW ‘96, MPH ‘97 and John Lee BA ‘90

SOCIAL WELFARE AT BERKELEY HONOR ROLL OF DONORS

Joyce Lewis MSW ‘67 Rita Laufenberg Mize BA ‘71, MA ‘74, PhD ‘80 and James Mize BA ‘68, MSW ‘71 Eleanor Moses MSW ‘97 Robert Muntz MSW ‘73 Kurt and Pamela Organista Richard Ponce MSW ‘73 and Carmen Ponce Maria Ponssen BA ‘95 and Huibert Ponssen* Lenda Townsend-Williams BA ‘78 and David Mullens Grant Ute MSW ‘72 and Janice Cantu Christine Velez C.EPP ‘16, MSW ‘16 Anne Wilson MSW ‘79 and Richard Cohn

$100-499 Anonymous (3) Remia Adams MSW ‘80 Adrian Aguilera Dalila Ahumada Hazel Ahumada BA ‘14 Francisco Alvarado MSW ‘13 Evelyn Apte BA ‘51, MSW ‘56 Nathan Averbuck BA ‘61 and Maxine Averbuck Jennifer Baha MSW ‘86 and Mohammad Baha Heide and Gregory Banks Stephen Banuelos MSW ‘79 Marilyn Shuman Barnett BA ‘69 and James Barnett BS ‘68, MBA ‘69 Rose Barreto MSW ‘02, PhD ‘07 Constance Battisti BA ‘79, MSW ‘85 Alvin Baum Jr. MCP ‘67, MSW ‘86 Erica Baum BA ‘74, MSW ‘77, DSW ‘85 Myra Baxter BA ‘77 Joan Baylie BA ‘72, Cred/Cert ‘78, MSW ‘78 and James Mullins MSW ‘79 Anne E. Benker BA ‘05 and George Benker MSW ‘89 Gary Bennett JD ‘79, MSW ‘79 and Alyssa Bennett Bradley Bento BA ‘76 and Kathleen Bento Margaret Berendsen BA ‘73 Karen Kraus Berman MSW ‘70 and Stephen Berman Cheryl Baker Bibelheimer MSW ‘90 and Gerald Bibelheimer

Lishelle Blakemore BA ‘89 Arlene Boyd BA ‘87 Evelyn Chituni Boyd BA ‘50 Richard Boylan MSW ‘71 and Judith Boylan Lauren Britt MSW ‘89 Iris Brooks MSW ‘70 David Brown C.EPP ‘07, MSW ‘07 and Annette Brown Joanne Brown BA ‘68, MSW ‘70, JD ‘73 John Brown Jr. BA ‘73, MSW ‘85 Sarah Brown C.EPP ‘83, MSW ‘83, PhD ‘95 David Bubis BA ‘78 and Beth Bubis Jo Roth Budman BA ‘65 and Norman Budman BA ‘66, MBA ‘68 Renee Burgard C.EPP ‘79, MSW ‘79 Angela Burk-Herrick and Scott Herrick Frank Bush MSW ‘79 and Renee Bush Maximiliano Camarillo MSW ‘71 and Patricia Camarillo Caroline Cangelosi MSW ‘07 and Michael Lee BA ‘98 Sarah Carnochan JD ‘88, MSW ‘97, PhD ‘04 Kelley Bradshaw Casimere BA ‘92 and Christopher Casimere Linda Castaldi MSW ‘73* Carole Chamberlain MSW ‘79 Susana Chan Fong BA ‘85, MSW ‘88 Philie Chan MSW ‘92 Xin-Hua Chen* MSW ‘08 Julia Chih Nancy Lee Chong BA ‘62 and Wallace Chong Jr. Julian Chow and Kitty Ho Derrick Collins BA ‘93 and Judith Collins J. Corporon BA ‘93 and Josie Corporon Connie Murphy Craig MSW ‘85 and David Craig BA ‘81 Cathy Jo Cress MSW ‘81 and Lewis Peterson Jr. Stephanie Cuccaro-Alamin PhD ‘05 Barbara Byrd Cullinane MSW ‘78 and Patrick Cullinane James Cunniff MSW ‘95 Margit David BA ‘68, MSW ‘76 Catherine Deasy MSW ‘19

GIVING at a GLANCE

556 163 $4,458,642 total giving:

number of gifts

Freny Dessai MSW ‘08 Lolita Gordon Doppelt-Dixon MSW ‘68 Krista Drescher-Burke PhD ‘08 Diane Fitzgibbon Dugard MSW ‘91 and Thomas Dugard Deborah Dyer MSW ‘93 Karen Eagan BA ‘63, MSW ‘65 Isabel Ebiner MSW ‘15 Valerie Edwards BA ‘78, MSW ‘86 Gregory Erickson MSW ‘05 Markus Exel Danna Fabella MSW ‘80 and Harold Wilson Stephanie FallCreek MSW ‘74, DSW ‘84 and Jerry Tillman Judith Feiner MSW ‘66 and Donald Feiner Nancy Fey BA ‘68, MSW ‘76 Leslie Jue Fields MSW ‘96 and Marcus Fields C.EAS ‘03, MA ‘03 Lissette Flores BA ‘95 and Jonathan Knapp BA ‘95, JD ‘08 Matthew Fong BA ‘48, MSW ‘67 and Yee-Ling Fong Wilmer Fong BA ‘49 Stephen Forkins MSW ‘94 and Suzanne MacDonald Risa Brody Foster BA ‘68, MSW ‘72 and John Foster BS ‘66 Christine Frazita MSW ‘84

Elizabeth Freitas MSW ‘86 Jennifer French BA ‘88 and James French Sandi Murakami Fuerte BA ‘89 and Robet Fuerte Shifra Gaman BA ‘79, MA ‘90 Isela Garcia White Mary-Lynn Garrett MSW ‘06 Sean Gibson Cheng Gong MSW ‘20 Josephine Gonzalez BA ‘70, MSW ‘73, JD ‘75 Paola Gonzalez BA ‘15 Steven Gothelf MSW ‘79 and Donna Gothelf David Gough Genevieve Graaf PhD ‘18 Dorothy Graham MSW ‘74, MPH ‘79 Janice Glesser Green BA ‘62 and Robert Green Maureen Grinnell MSW ‘64 Nancy Grover BA ‘76, MSW ‘82* Stephen Guevara MSW ‘18 Jing Guo PhD ‘07 John Gusman MSW ‘82 Janet Gusukuma MA ‘76 and Neil Hamilton III MBA ‘76 Meekyung Han PhD ‘04 Kathleen Connelly Hardwick BA ‘69 and David Hardwick*

Michael He BS ‘14 Jean Henkels-Lee MSW ‘88 Marjorie Heumann MSW ‘72 Stacie Hiramoto BA ‘76, MSW ‘84 Chung-Ya Ho BA ‘99, MSW ‘04 Heather Hobbs MSW ‘94 and Joseph Chiffriller Asher Hodes JD ‘12 Helene Hoenig MSW ‘03, C.EPP ‘07 Wesley Hogan Helen Hui MSW ‘70 and Gordon Lin Marjorie Hunt PhD ‘89* Mary Sue Ittner MSW ‘68 and Robert Rutemoeller Frank Ivey MSW ‘06* Chidi Iwuoma BA ‘01, MA ‘09 Ruby Jackson BA ‘74 Terry Jones MSW ‘71, DSW ‘74 and Sharon Richardson-Jones Leah Kaizer BA ‘73, MSW ‘80 and David Salk BS ‘73 Mary Ann Kassier BA ‘77, MSW ‘80 and Charles Kassier Erin Kelley BA ‘00 Mikyong Kim-Goh MSW ‘85, PhD ‘90 and Francis Goh Christopher Koh BA ‘03 Mary Kunz-Nakanishi BA ‘81, MSW ‘89 and David Nakanishi MPH ‘91, MSW ‘91

number of new donors

Call 510.643.9789 or select the “recurring” option at give.berkeley.edu

number of sustaining donors

Louis Labat MSW ‘72 Grady Lam Merilee Lau BA ‘86 Annette Lazzarotto Palmer BA ‘82 Arthur Lee BS ‘06 Rufina Lee MSW ‘97 and David Reiss Vinita Lee C.EPP ‘00, MSW ‘00 Xiong Lee MSW ‘19 Judith Lelchook-Lohman MSW ‘80 and Joseph Lohman III Henry Lerner MA ‘72, JD ‘77 Bernice Leung MSW ‘18 Judith Levin BA ‘77 and Barry Epstein BS ‘78 Lawrence Liese MSW ‘85, PhD ‘90 Cynthia Lim MSW ‘81 and Perry Landsberg Maria and Ron Lindley Nancy Littlefield Cred/Cert ‘81, MSW ‘81 and Walter Earnest MSW ‘82* Sarah Barr Llewellyn BA ‘67 and Thomas Llewellyn Yvonne Lu C.EPP ‘95, MSW ‘95 Anna Lynch MSW ‘16 Michael Mabanglo MSW ‘93 Valerie Macy-Hurley MSW ‘03 and Ryan Macy-Hurley MSW ‘05 Libbe Madsen BA ‘65 and Loren Madsen John Magruder PhD ‘10

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Douglas Martindale BA ‘77, MSW ‘82 Anita Martinez MA ‘92 and John J. Rodelo MSW ‘72 Jack Maslow MSW ‘68 Patricia Maulet BA ‘62, MSW ‘67 Kimberly Mayer BA ‘90 Ruth McCanless BA ‘48 Brian McGhee BA ‘91 and Relonda McGhee Megan McQuaid MSW ‘06 Joseph Merighi MSW ‘91, PhD ‘96 Kathy and Lee Merkle-Raymond Christina Miyawaki MSW ‘08 Jennifer Monahan BA ‘93, MA ‘94, PhD ‘00* Miguel Montiel DSW ‘74 and Yvonne Montiel Marie Prahser Morris BA ‘68 Randall Myers MSW ‘85 Shirley Myers Kristin Nelson MSW ‘05, MPH ‘06 Lillie Ngai GiaBao Nguyen BA ‘99 Caroline Oda MSW ‘71 and Francis Oda Katharine Odle MSW ‘04 Greta Oducayen BA ’74 Rafael Ongkeko JD ‘78 Emma Jhun Otsuji BA ‘98 and Justin Otsuji BA ‘99 Ann Pagliaro MSW ‘97 Juliet Pappas MSW ‘01 and John Pappas MSW ‘01 Athena Paras-Simons BA ‘72 and Mark Simons Amita Parikh BA ‘10, BS ‘10 Loraine Park BA ‘96, C.EPP ‘05, MSW ‘05 and Gerald Tsai BS ‘96 Arthur Paull MSW ‘69 and Susan Ten Bosch Deborah Payne-Kelley BA ‘85 and Gary Kelley Huei Peng PhD ‘92 Catherine Tassone Penso BA ’78 and Bruce Penso BA ‘77 Robin Perry PhD ‘99 Nancy McKay Peterson MSW ‘83 Jon Pettigrew MSW ‘96 Judith Pilger BA ‘63 Judith Potter BA ‘69, MSW ‘72 and Gerald Potter Tracy Pullar MSW ‘91 Leah Reider MSW ‘71 Linda Remy MSW ‘77, DSW ‘80 Valerie Reuss Cred/Cert ‘77, MSW ‘77 and Stefan Reuss

Clifton Rhodes BA ‘65, MSW ‘67 and Mary Rhodes* Carla Richmond Stanley Rinne Suzanne Rivera MSW ‘93 and Michael Householder Ashley Rodwick MSW ‘10 Roger Roffman DSW ‘83 Deborah Rosenberg MSW ‘59 Sarah Rowen MSW ‘86, C.EPP ‘87 and Lawrence Rowen Raquel Ruiz Cred/Cert ‘78, MSW ‘78 \ and Stephen Haber Cesar Ruvalcaba Muong Saeteurn BA ‘13 Jorge Sanchez Suarez Peter Sardelich MSW ‘75 Andrew Scharlach BA ’72 and Ilene Conison Scharlach BA ‘71, MA ‘73, C.EPP ‘74, PhD ‘79 Eric and Shelly Schlenker Carolyn Schwarz C.EPP ‘97, MSW ‘97 Mia Settles-Tidwell BA ‘92 Valerie Shapiro Naveen Sharma MSW ‘05 Margaret and Michael Sheldon Henry Shoane BA ‘76 and Delfina Shoane Brian Simmons BA ‘76, MSW ‘81, PhD ‘97 and Melva Simmons Alison Yip Skubic BA ‘82 and Michael Skubic BA ‘81 Annette Smith MSW ‘64 Jennifer Smith MSW ‘01 Matthew Smith BA ‘18, MSW ‘20 Chamnan So Irene Solis Rosa Solorzano BA ‘98, MSW ‘06 Laurie Soman MSW ‘81 Sylvia Soos MSW ‘66 Michelle Spanier P ‘05 Allison Sparks MSW ‘07 Jacquelyn Stanley MSW ‘75, DSW ‘82 and Kudret Oztap MBA ‘75 Rebecca Armstrong Stanwyck MSW ‘81 and Robert Ferencz* Willow Stelzer Paul Sterzing Karen Sullivan MSW ‘82 and Mark Provda Shirley Summers C.EPP ‘95, MSW ‘95 Constance McCarty Sutton C.Esing ‘71 and Kevin Sutton BA ‘71 Mariko Sweetnam MPH ‘13, MSW ‘13 Lia Swindle* Aimee Sziklai

SOCIAL WELFARE AT BERKELEY HONOR ROLL OF DONORS

Christine Taich MSW ‘87 and Timothy Taich JD ‘86 Marianne Zerweck Tanner BA ‘56 Paul Terrell BA ‘64, MA ‘65, MSW ‘67, DSW ‘76 and Kathy Terrell Rowena Tong BA ‘90 Monica Towers BA ‘80 Eri Tsujii C.EPP ‘11, MSW ‘11 Tran Tuyet MSW ‘88 Nancy Ulmer-Schultz MSW ‘80 Renna Ulvang Odette Vandaveer BA ‘07, MSW ‘11 Ana Veas BA ‘15, C.EPP ‘17, MSW ‘17 Richard Vohs MSW ‘72 and Phyllis Vohs* JoAnn Walcott MSW ‘67 and William Walcott Jr. Andrew Wallach Daniel Webster II MSW ‘95, PhD ‘99 David Wee BA ‘76 Constance Weisner Dr.PH ‘87 and Stanley Weisner DSW ‘76 Susan Werner MSW ‘87 Wendy Wiegmann BA ‘02, MSW ‘07, PhD ‘16* Linda Williams Lauren Woessner MSW ‘09 Diane Wong BA ‘84, MSW ‘88 Henry Wong BA ‘57 and Loraine Wong John Wu Ellen Yasumura MSW ‘80 and Kent Young Eileen Yuen BS ‘93, OD ‘95 and Frank Yuen Mengqi Zhao Charlotte Zilversmit MSW ‘58 Allison Zippay MSW ‘83, DSW ‘89 Maria Zuniga MSW ‘70

up to $99 Anonymous (5) Alfreda Abbott BA ‘53 Sally Adams BA ‘89, MSW ‘92 and John Haapala BA ‘64 Donald Allan BA ‘54 and Kathleen Allan Hazel and Shaul Amir Tauheeda Anderson BA ‘18 Reymundo Anthony MSW ‘92 Kathleen Archibald MSW ‘77 Shayna Asher-Schapiro C.EPP ‘19, MSW ‘19 Radomir Avila MSW ‘13 Rodrigo Avila MSW ‘17 Jasmine Baeza BA ‘15 Jennifer Baity BA ‘91

Ronna Charissa Bañada-Zee C.EPP ‘08, MSW ‘08 Julio Bautista Ramirez BA ‘19 Michele Bernal BA ‘77 Evelyn Bharucha MSW ‘55 and Behram Bharucha BS ‘55, MS ‘58, PhD ‘61 Angela and Steven Bileca Nancy Brigham Blattel BA ‘77 and Kevin Blattel BA ‘74, MBA ‘03 Carol Bohnsack MSW ‘67 Heather Brankman C.EPP ‘00, MSW ‘00 and Charles Brankman Ruth Hatley Brennan* Ruth Brunings MSW ‘62 Lillie Butler BA ‘77 Kayla Cai BA ‘17 Christopher Cajski Luna Calderon Ann Cameron-Ajari MSW ‘84 Jeffrey Carlson BA ‘82, MSW ‘85 Ore Carmi Lolita Castillo MSW ‘01 Robin Chang Mark Charns BA ‘78 Beatrice Chavez MSW ‘79 Kay Young Choi MSW ‘80 Eunkyung Chung Tom Clancy MSW ‘84 and Juliet Clancy Sasha Clayton C.EPP ‘05, MSW ‘05 Troy Cole MSW ‘18 Aileen Collins C.EPP ‘13, MSW ‘13 Jill Cooper MSW ‘87 Suzanne Cottle MSW ‘87 and Richard Cottle PhD ‘64 Sade Daniels MSW ‘17 Hannah Daugherty MSW ‘18 E. Maxwell Davis Martha Davis BA ‘85 Renee Dawson MSW ‘72 Dolores Decarli BA ‘57 Penny Tharsing Deleray BA ‘61 Rosemary Delgado MSW ‘80 Alexx Devlin MSW ‘13 Lisa Dipko MSW ‘00 Janet Fishstrom Dombro BA ’79 and Stephen N. Dombro BA ’78 Debra Donaldson BA ‘93* Linda J. Drevno BA ’80 and Michael A. Drevno BA ‘75, MBA ‘81 Diane Arnold Driver DSW ‘88 Laura Ducharme BA ‘99 Thary Duong C.EPP ‘10, MSW ‘10 Shanta Eastman MSW ‘02

Carole and Timothy Eckmayer Sandra Elyasi Alicia Emanuel BA ‘09 Kathianne Selindh English Cred/Cert ‘78, MSW ‘78 and James English MSW ‘78 Jacqueline London Ensign BA ‘53, MSW ‘56 Christina Feliciana C.EPP ‘97, MSW ‘97 and Chris Chan* Darlene Fermin BA ‘18 Sarah Flam MSW ‘13 Yvette Flores MSW ‘16 Steven Fogel P ‘18 Donovan Fones C.EPP ‘05, MSW ‘05 Katherine Forand C.EPP ‘98, MSW ‘98 and Benjamin Potter Gwendolyn Foster Sandra Fox Martha Frank BA ‘67, MSW ‘70 Karie Frasch MSW ‘98, PhD ‘01 Jennifer Freud MSW ‘20 Gabrielle Fuchs MSW ‘68 Arpita and Rajesh Ghosh Tom Godfrey C.EPP ‘03, MSW ‘03 Danielle Gonzalez BA ‘19 Mary-Lee Goodrich MSW ‘84 Amy Wiltchik Gorman BA ‘61, MSW ‘68 and George Gorman JD ‘83 Gloria Gonzales Grace MSW ‘70, MPH ‘77 Marilyn Griffin MSW ‘70 Adrianne Gruber BA ‘56 Shiheng Guan BA ‘19 Sara Haj-Hassan MSW ‘14 Soo-Hee Han MSW ‘82* Pamela Hanes DSW ‘89* Corrine Hansen Jaclynn Hawkins BA ‘07, MSW ‘09 Joslin Kimball Herberich MSW ‘95 Lorelei Hernandez MSW ‘11 Carol Highland-Fritz MSW ‘88 and Larry Fritz Catherine Geraty Hoag BA ‘79 and Vernon Hoag Alexandra Horevitz MSW ‘13 Frances Hornstein MSW ‘96 Mia Houtermans MSW ‘16 Lily Hsu-Storaker BA ‘93 and Scott Hsu-Storaker Xiaoming Hu MSW ‘15 Jiayao Huang BA ‘17 Lisa Huet MSW ‘00 Sharon Humberson Genesis Ibarra MSW ‘16 Celia Jackson MSW ‘76 Jennifer Jackson

GIVING highlights Catherine Hutto Baker and Daniel Baker made a $25,000 gift to support five years of student participation for NASW-CA’s Legislative Lobby Days. This gift was in addition to Catherine Hutto Baker’s many years of generous support for the School, including fellowship support for students and named chairs for faculty members. Matt and Lisa Sonsini made an exceptionally generous gift of $500,000 to create The Sonsini Social Welfare Fellowship for doctoral students in recognition of Berkeley Social Welfare’s contribution to the common good. Their gift was matched by the FTG Fellowship Matching Program, made possible by an anonymous donor to provide financial assistance to graduate students attending UC Berkeley, resulting in the creation of a $1 million endowed fellowship for social welfare doctoral students. John Wilson and Beclee Newcomer Wilson (MSW ‘90), longtime supporters of the School of Social Welfare and members of the Dean’s Alumni Advisory Board, have committed to one of the largest planned gifts in the School’s history. The Wilsons made a $50,000 pledge to provide the first five years of funding for the “Idea of America and Social Justice Forum,” envisioned as an annual forum—sponsored by the School of Social Welfare—of scholars, researchers, policymakers, social justice advocates and students. The first forum is planned for 2022. The Wilsons have also included Berkeley Social Welfare in their estate plan. Of their $3 million bequest, 80% will be used to provide fellowship support for postdoctoral researchers in the School of Social Welfare with a preference for those whose research is in the areas of social justice and social welfare advocacy. The remaining 20% will be used to create an endowed fund to provide ongoing support for a lecture in the school of Social Welfare that addresses social justice issues. Both John and Beclee have fought for social and racial justice throughout their long careers and deep involvement at UC Berkeley. Chancellor Carol Christ shared her gratitude with the Wilsons: “these initiatives will make it possible for the School of Social Welfare to elevate their public visibility and draw awareness to dynamic scholarship and discourse around [racial reckoning and social justice] on a national level.” Two anonymous donors made a gift of $250,000 to establish an endowed fellowship for MSW students, particularly students specializing in mental health. The donors — an MSW alum from the class of 1979 and her husband — have made gifts to Berkeley Social Welfare for over 30 years. With so many students in need of aid, we are deeply grateful to all of our donors for their ongoing support of students and their dedication to social welfare values.

Luyi Jian Darla Johnson MSW ‘77, DSW. ‘82 and William Jones Jr. BA ‘68 Taralyn Kawata MSW ‘18 Kimberly Kelley MSW ‘94 Da Som Kim BA ‘17 Avinash Kunnath BA ‘10 Ellen Kushin MPH ‘79 and Frank Kushin Saul Laird MSW ‘99 Cathy Lapid MSW ‘08 and Patrick Lapid PHD ‘17 Chau Le MSW ‘06 Elaine Lebowitz BA ‘73 Roylinda LeDuff MSW ‘91* Kiara Lee MSW ‘96 Camille Lendormy MSW ‘19 Kimberlin Leon MSW ‘19 Sergio Leon BA ‘18 Katherine Knecht Lerner BA ‘80, MSW ‘84 and David Lerner Elizabeth Lester MSW ‘73 David Levin BA ‘81, MSW ‘86 Judy Levine Thomas Lindsey BA ‘70 and Jennifer Lindsey Marissa Litman MSW ‘17 Amy Louer Alexandra Lutnick PhD ‘13 Esther Ma BA ‘87 and Harvey Lee BA ‘88

SPOTLIGHT

Amanda Martin MSW ‘15 Cynthia Martin MSW ‘82 Samuel Martinez-Aristondo BA ‘19 Jeffrey Mashburn MSW ‘15 Briana McGeough MSW ‘16, PhD ‘19 Nita Mehta BA ’81 and Anil Thayamballi M.S. ‘79, PhD ‘83 Evelyn Monson BA ‘58 and Raymond Monson Richard Montantes MSW ‘95 Susan Montauk Sheri Sprung Morrison MSW ‘86 and Jerry Morrison Patrick Mulkern IV C.EPP ‘16, MSW ‘16 Anna-Maria Munoz MSW ‘03 Lorena Naseyowma MSW ‘83 Janelle Nguyen BA ‘19 Jennifer Nguyen BA ‘15 Vivian Nguyen BA ‘18 Ying Yan Njoo-Lau Lisa Noshay Petro Erika O’Bannon MSW ‘15 Julee Ogawa MSW ‘90 Francesca Osuna C.EPP ‘13, MPH ‘13, MSW ‘13* Kristin Owen BA ‘84 Evelyn Owens MSW ‘70 Emily Ozer MA ‘95, PhD ‘99 and Antony Fields BS ‘83 Olivia Palacio C.EPP ‘79, Cred/Cert ‘79, MSW ‘79 and Robert Palacio PhD ‘80

Jonathan Parry BA ‘06 Robin Payne MSW ‘88 and Charles Payne Yuriko Payton-Miyazaki MSW ‘69* Raquel Perez Escobosa MSW ‘20 Ana Peterson BA ‘98, MS ‘11 Andy Peterson Melissa Phillips MSW ‘09 Melissa Portal Jocelyn Pou MSW ‘83 and Walter Bankovitch Edward Powers C.EPP ‘12, MSW ‘12 Virginia Ramirez BA ‘12* Charlotte Ranallo MSW ‘73 Janet Reger-Nash MSW ‘70 and William Reger-Nash William Renauld MSW ‘17 Lisabeth Roos Parker Anna Rosenthal MSW ‘19 Jessica Sanchez MSW ‘14 Sahar Sani BA ‘19 Diane Scarritt MSW ‘73 Colene Sawyer Schlaepfer BA ‘52* Gale Schleimer MSW ‘88 Lynn Scholle MSW ‘83 Sandra Seidlitz MSW ‘80 and David Orenstein Maribel and Tony Silva Mary Solis Cred/Cert ‘81, MSW ‘81 Joshua Steinmetz BA ‘08 Matilda Stewart MSW ‘58 and Charles Stewart

Srinivasan Subramanian BA ‘99 Pamela Tate-Warmington BA ‘78 and Jim Warmington Matthew Theriot PhD ‘03 Karen Thomas MSW ‘92* Suzanne Thompson BA ‘90, MSW ‘95 Nina Torabzadeh BA ‘10 Diamond Tran BA ‘96 Ngan Tran BS ‘01 Carla Tucker BA ‘94 Tara Umemoto BA ‘15, C.EPP ‘19, MSW ‘19* Mayra Villalta BA ‘06 Heidi Wagner Leona Wallace BA ‘72 Nessa Lerner Wilk MSW ‘83 and Robert Wilk Alice Wilkins MSW ‘79 James Wilson Jane Sperling Wise MSW ‘02 James Wogan C.EPP ‘01, MSW ‘01 Allan Wellington Wood* MSW ‘89 Phillip Yim BA ‘01 Katherine Zepeda-Arreola BA ‘13 Jing Zhang BA ‘09, BS ‘09 and Richard Zen BS ‘09

Crowdfunding campaign provides PPE grants for MSW students 75% of our MSW students had in-person or hybrid field placements at the beginning of the year. They needed PPE and peace of mind. The 25% of students with fully remote placements needed technology to support their access. Percentages fluctuated with the prevalence of COVID, but the need for students to stay safe and feel supported did not change. Thanks to an outpouring of support, we raised $38,700 through a crowdfunding appeal and were able to offer a $250 grant to all MSW students to support pandemic-related costs. Our community’s generosity sent a strong message of support. Danielle Zelinsky (MSW ‘22) writes “As a lowincome, out-of-state student, the grant has been a welcome relief that has lifted a tremendous stress off of my shoulders. I am truly grateful.”

HAVILAND SOCIETY Berkeley Social Welfare gratefully acknowledges the Haviland Society, a group of especially generous individual donors whose commitment to the School of Social Welfare, its students and faculty will be felt for years to come. Individuals who join the Haviland Society have pledged or given $10,000 or more over their lifetime as of March 2021.

$1,000,000+

$10,000 to $24,999

Catherine Hutto Baker BA ‘73 and Daniel Baker Marguerite Johnson BA ‘60 Beclee Newcomer Wilson MSW ‘90 and John Wilson

Lillian Cape Julian Chun-Chung Chow and Kitty Ho William Clark and Mary Ann Hamamura Clark BA ‘68 Jeffrey Edleson BA ‘74 and Sudha Shetty Paul Ekman and Mary Ann Mason Leslee Feinstein BA ‘71 and Wayne Feinstein Wilmer Fong BA ‘49 Michael Frazier BA ‘94 and Shelley Smith Meridith Greenbaum MSW ‘99 and Doron Greenbaum Cynthia Hecker C.Epp ‘05, MSW ‘05 and Peter Hecker JD ‘73 Jeung Hyun and Luelia Noles David Kears BA ‘68, MSW ‘72 and Muriel Kears Patricia Levy BA ‘52 Paul and Linda Liesem Kent Macdonald BA ‘75, M.Arch. ‘83 Lorraine Midanik and Stephen Blum MA ‘69, PhD ‘73 Aron Murai BS ‘57 Abigail Nichols DSW ‘77 Phyllis Johnson O’Shea BA ‘49 Catharine Ralph Cred/Cert ‘77, MSW ‘77 and Norbert Ralph BA ‘69, MPH ‘80 Paul Reisz BA ‘82 and Stephanie Reisz Andrew Scharlach BA’72 and Eileen Scharlach BA ‘71, MA ‘73, C.EPP ‘74, PhD ‘79 Irene Solis Eliot Specht BA ‘81 Susan Jennings Stangeland BA ‘62, MSW ‘68 and Bruce Stangeland PhD ‘67 Susan Sung BA ‘69, MSW ‘72, DSW ‘77 and Oscar Sung B.Arch ‘69, MCP ‘72 Nadine Tang MSW ‘75 Patricia Williams BA ‘66, MSW ‘93 and Raymond Williams BS ‘66

$100,000 to $999,999 Anonymous (1) Lynn Jones Crook BA ‘68, C.Esing ‘69 and Christopher Crook BA ‘68, JD ‘71 Kristen and Daniel Ikenberg Ralph Kramer BA’42, Cred/Cert’43, MSW’46 & DSW’64 Diane Scarritt MSW ‘73 Mildred Sheehan Matthew Sonsini JD ‘92 and Lisa Sonsini JD ‘91

$25,000 to $99,999 Jean Allgeyer MSW ‘51 Sandra Auerback BA ‘67 Barbara Cornet BA ‘67, MSW ‘85, MPH ‘86 Diana Dea Crook ‘70 and Peter Crook BA ‘70 Eileen Gambrill and Gail Bigelow MSW ‘87 Shaaron Gilson Harry Gin BA ‘70 MSW ‘72 and Ann Gin Art Hom BA ‘69, MSW ‘72 and Edna Hom Thomas Layton and Gyongy Laky BA ‘70 MA ‘71 James and Khadija Midgley Leona Wong Miu BA ‘54 Jonathan Pannor BA ‘84, MSW ‘87 Toni and Arthur Rock Alan Sherman MA ‘85, MSW ‘90 and Kimberley Sherman Kathryn Stenberg Renee Winge MSW ‘85

$10,000 to $24,999 Michael Austin BA ‘64, MSW ‘66 and Susan Austin BA ‘64 Richard Barth MSW’79, DSW’82 and Nancy Dickinson Jill Duerr Berrick MSW ‘87, PhD ‘90 and Kenneth Berrick Robert and Mary Catherine Birgeneau

This list des not include donors who joined the Haviland Society through a realized bequest.

SOCIAL WELFARE AT BERKELEY HONOR ROLL OF DONORS

remembering

IN MEMORIAM

Catherine Hutto Baker (BASW ‘73)

Ralph Kramer

Mary Ann Mason

professor emeritus

professor emerita

1951 – 2021

1921 – 2020

1943 – 2020

A strong believer in the power of education to change lives, Catherine Hutto Baker was exceptionally generous in her support of the School of Social Welfare. Her gifts to the school created an endowed chair for Social Services in Public Education, a second chair for Child and Family Services, two fellowships for MSW students, funding for faculty and graduate student support for the mentoring program Berkeley Connect, and many other areas of need. She was also a generous supporter of the Graduate School of Education, the Goldman School of Public Policy, Graduate Division, Equity and Inclusion, and numerous other programs. She served on the UC Berkeley Foundation for 12 years.

A member of Berkeley Social Welfare’s first MSW cohort, Professor emeritus Ralph Kramer graduated in 1946, and was also the first to earn a doctorate from Berkeley Social Welfare in 1964. Professor Kramer was the founding director of the Strengthening Organizations and Communities concentration, and his work on operation of nonprofit human service organizations received both national and international recognition. He authored 44 journal articles, numerous book chapters and reports, and four major books: Readings in Community Organization Practice, Participation of the Poor: Comparative Community Case Studies in the War on Poverty, Voluntary Agencies in the Welfare State, co-authored with Gidron and Salamaon, Government and the Third Sector: Emerging Relationships in Welfare States.

Professor emerita Mary Ann Mason championed research and policies to improve gender equity throughout the University of California system and higher education nationwide. She taught family law and policy at the School of Social Welfare from 1989 until 2008 and served from 2000 to 2007 as the dean of the Graduate Division, the first woman appointed in a century. After 2007 she was a faculty affiliate of Berkeley Law. In more than a dozen books, including The Equality Trap, Mothers on the Fast Track, and Do Babies Matter? Mason examined the professional obstacles faced by women. Cal’s family-friendly policies for faculty and graduate students became a national model, and this work earned her the Berkeley Citation in 2007.

1951 – 2021

SOCIAL WELFARE AT BERKELEY IN MEMORIAM

Our community lost a number of beloved members this past year. We celebrate their lives and their many contributions to Berkeley Social Welfare and to advancing the common good.

Robert Pruger professor emeritus

Sarah Roncskevitz (MSW ‘19)

1933 – 2020

1987 – 2020

A graduate of Berkeley Social Welfare, Professor emeritus Robert Pruger was best known for his work on social policy analysis. He sought to bring precision to analyses of policy implementation and did not hesitate to challenge prevailing attitudes with his scholarship. Colleagues remember him for his analytical rigor, his quick wit, and a teaching style that encouraged students to engage critically with social policy issues.

Sarah Roncskevitz (MSW ‘19) passed away in May 2020 of complications due to COVID-19, leaving behind two young children, a fiance, and a grieving family. Sarah was a medical social worker in the emergency room at Kaiser, and may have contracted COVID-19 at her workplace. Sarah overcame many obstacles on her path to completing her education and pursuing a career helping others; she is remembered for her compassion and her open-hearted, skillful practice.

Claudia Waters 1950 – 2021 Longtime staff member Claudia Waters managed the School’s IT and Instructional Computing Lab from 1986 until her retirement in 2013. She was instrumental in guiding the School from a time when personal computers were just beginning to be used in the social sciences through the advent of the web and numerous increasing complexities of the field. She was also a lecturer, and demystified statistics and statistical computing for a generation of students.

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