Social Welfare at Berkeley - Spring 2020

Social Welfare at Berkeley

THE MAGAZINE FOR ALUMNI AND FRIENDS spring 2020

Year of Resilience Berkeley Social Welfare takes a strengths-based approach to the disruptions of COVID-19

ALSO IN THIS ISSUE RESEARCH DEVELOPMENTS: ANU MANCHIKANTI GÓMEZ AND REPRODUCTIVE SELF-DETERMINATION

STUDENT PROFILE: MATTHEW SMITH HELPS FELLOW VETS AND BEYOND

MILESTONES: DEAN LINDA BURTON’S FIRST YEAR

table of contents

spring 2020

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NEW FACES

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MILESTONES

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RESEARCH SPOTLIGHT

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COVER STORY

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BERKELEY SOCIAL WELFARE PROFILES

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STAFF TRANSITIONS

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HAVILAND BRIEFS

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HONOR ROLL OF DONORS

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ENDNOTE

Meet new faculty and staff

Dean Burton’s first year Anu Manchikanti Gómez conducts research to advance reproductive self-determination

Berkeley Social Welfare takes a strengths-based approach to the disruptions of COVID-19

Student Spotlight: Student veteran Matthew Smith (BASW ‘18, MSW ‘20) Alumni in Action: Esmeralda Cortez Rosalez (BASW ‘19)

Robert Ayasse reflects on his years at Berkeley Social Welfare

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

Founding Mothers

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a letter from the dean I felt a powerful calling to Berkeley’s School of Social Welfare the first time I entered Haviland Hall. Berkeley’s historic commitment to social justice was in the air and punctuated the vibrancy of the School’s mission, programs, faculty, students, staff, and alum. I knew almost instantly that becoming the Dean of the School of Social Welfare was the opportunity I had been waiting for. After decades of studying the impact of poverty and inequality on the lives of America’s most marginalized families, including the policies that create and perpetuate disadvantage in their lives, finally, here I was with a golden opportunity to contribute to the training of “first responders” who address the needs of families like those I had come to know and care about in my research.

My first few months at Berkeley revealed in rapid pace what my initial instincts about our School foreshadowed: strength and resolve in the pursuit of producing knowledge and training to address the situations of those most in need, regardless of the challenges that might interfere with achieving those goals. The wildfires and power outages we experienced in the fall illuminated the strengths of our School for me. I came to know a faculty dedicated to delivering quality instruction and research no matter what. I experienced the gift of engaging with passionate students, many of whom have inspiring stories about why they want to pursue social work as a profession.

I have the honor of working with a caring staff who “make things happen.” And, I have met hundreds of alums who are out there fighting the good fight and making a difference in our communities. We embrace the legacies of our alums by continuing to build ties with policy-makers and community leaders to expand our partnerships and be in dialogue with the communities around us.

Spring brought us an additional challenge in the form of the pandemic which has been a real-time test of our ability to adapt.

Our strengths remain steadfast as the work we do is more important and relevant than ever. Our faculty continue to be thought leaders and caring teachers. Our students’ passion for learning and helping grows stronger every day. Our staff keeps things moving so that we don’t miss a beat in working to achieve our collective mission. And, our alums are connected, engaged, and supporting our community. We are a resourceful and resilient crew and it shows. As the pandemic heightens awareness of inequities and suffering, our School of Social Welfare community contributes to relevant national conversations on the most pressing issues families are currently facing and to continuing to build a well-trained social welfare workforce to meet the needs of those families.

Everyone in our (now virtual) Haviland community has shown resilience, kindness, and compassion as we navigate these times together. We have all found new strengths, and I could not be more proud or more grateful to be here during this time.

Sincerely,

Linda Burton, Dean

NEW FACES Emmeline Chuang Associate Professor + Mack Distinguished Professor Associate Professor and Mack Distinguished Professor Emmeline Chuang’s research focuses on how health and human service organizations can improve service access and well-being of underserved populations. She has authored over 65 peer-reviewed publications as well as numerous policy briefs, technical reports, and tools for practitioners. Her research has been funded by agencies such as the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the William T. Grant Foundation, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and the Hitachi Foundation.

Tell us about your educational and professional background.

After college, I spent a year as a Health Corps / AmeriCorps volunteer in San Francisco, where I worked as a medical assistant and health educator at a community health center. After that, I worked as a research assistant for a company specializing in the evaluation of health and social service programs. These experiences affirmed my interest in furthering my education, and I subsequently went back and got a PhD in Health Policy and Management at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. My dissertation focused on how health and human services organizations could improve service access and outcomes for families involved with child welfare. From there, I pursued a postdoc at the University of South Florida, where I worked on a number of state and county evaluation projects that used data from multiple sectors to take a more holistic view at how to improve service access and outcomes for vulnerable children and families. This interdisciplinary, multi-sectoral approach has informed my subsequent life as a faculty member at SDSU, UCLA, and now Berkeley.

Describe a few of your current projects.

I have a few active projects right now. I’m involved with the statewide evaluation of the Whole Person Care Pilot Program, which is part of California’s Medicaid 1115 waiver demonstration program. Under WPC care, 25 pilots representing the majority of counties and one city in California are working to improve integration of health, behavioral health, and social services for high-need, high-cost Medicaid beneficiaries. We want to see whether developing infrastructure and improving care coordination will improve outcomes for this population. I’m also involved in a study of the Medi-Cal Health Homes Program, which focuses on care management and integration of health and social services for high-need, high-cost

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beneficiaries, to understand how Medicaid managed care plans are implementing the program and factors that influence successful implementation. And I’m also partnering with colleagues at Ohio State University who are studying how to improve collaboration between child welfare and behavioral health for families affected by the opioid crisis. Finally, I’m wrapping up a project with the William T. Grant Foundation focused on identifying organizational supports that promote evidence use by private child- and family-serving agencies.

What drew you to this position at Berkeley Social Welfare?

I have always been interested in the intersection of health and human services, and particularly how to create better systems of care for families involved with the child welfare system. I first learned of the Mack Center through a project that Mike [Austin], Sarah [Carnochan], and a colleague at Portland State University invited me to participate in. In the U.S., publicly funded human services are commonly provided through contracts with private agencies. Our project focused on factors that influence the success of these contracting relationships. Through that project, I learned more about BAASC [the Bay Area Social Services Consortium] and the Mack Center and was very much drawn to the “practice research” model, which focuses on working closely with community partners to conduct research that will directly inform practice. Conducting research that can really answer questions that agencies in the community have is something that I hope to further in my new role.

Could you tell us more about your upcoming goals for the Mack Center?

I would like to build on the existing strengths of the Mack Center. I think it’s really amazing that Mike [Austin] and Sarah [Carnochan] have developed this long-standing partnership with these Bay Area human service agencies and I would love to find ways to continue contributing to and building on this foundation. I need to spend time understanding what the local needs and priorities are. But then I would like to see whether we can identify opportunities to leverage larger grants in ways that would benefit both the Mack Center and county agencies. I believe that interdisciplinary projects that include diverse colleagues from multidisciplinary backgrounds, as well as community partners, can be more impactful.

What are you most looking forward to at Berkeley Social Welfare?

I’m excited to begin teaching and working with students and colleagues. I am coming from a slightly different disciplinary background, having never been formally trained in social work, so I think there will be a learning curve. But the faculty and students that I’ve met so far have been lovely and I’m looking forward to this new adventure.

NEW FACES Christine Scudder Field Consultant and Lecturer Christine Scudder (MSW, LCSW, PPSC) brings over 20 years of social work experience to her role as field consultant and lecturer at the School of Social Welfare. Her background includes micro, mezzo and macro levels of practice in areas including mobile crisis response, hospital discharge planning, Assertive Community Treatment, intimate partner violence prevention and intervention services, child welfare, K-12 public schools, legislative advocacy, and psychotherapy with children, youth, and adults.

Prior to coming to Berkeley, Christine was an adjunct faculty with San Francisco State University School of Social Work for five years. Christine also maintains a private practice with an emphasis on clinical supervision and consultation/training for community partners, including the Judicial Council of California and a variety of mental health and social service agencies.

When did you know you wanted to pursue a career in social welfare? While manager of a domestic violence shelter program, I regularly assisted mothers to make CPS reports about abusive partners who also abused their children. When the child welfare system continuously responded these same mothers “failed to protect� their children, I knew I had to do something. I pursued an MSW degree because social work not only allows me to engage in multi-level practice, it expects me to do so.

I have facilitated statewide policy reform, system-wide training and support for child welfare workers and judges, and served as a child welfare worker, case manager and therapist with children, youth, and families.

I remain committed to social change through training, education, public policy, legal advocacy and the direct provision of trauma-informed services.

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What interested you in the position at UC Berkeley School of Social Welfare?

For six years I was a faculty member with SFSU School of Social Work, where I was teaching, served as Field Director, and supported their Title IV-E, MHSA and IBH stipend programs. Throughout this period, I was fortunate to collaborate with faculty and students from UCB School of Social Welfare. Both up close and from afar, I have long admired the deep collaboration, rich scholarship and forward-thinking aspects of the UC Berkeley faculty. Christina Feliciana and I have co-taught courses and presented together at multiple conferences and she is a deeply valued thought partner and collaborator. I feel fortunate to be here and enjoy engaging with both colleagues and students.

What have you most enjoyed about working with Berkeley Social Welfare Students?

I am energized and inspired by our students’ spirited tenacity and their ability to engage in deep critical thinking. I appreciate meeting our students in intersectional spaces of rigor, creativity, passion, research and lived experience in the classroom. I am consistently humbled by the depth of our students’ commitment to improving larger systems and engaging with individual clients in a manner that promotes dignity and respect. Integrating theory and practice in the classroom is both invigorating and challenging. I love my work!

If you had the chance to add one book to every Berkeley student’s curriculum, what would it be, and why?

While the NASW Code of Ethics calls upon social workers to challenge social injustice, we often work within systems that are founded upon, and serve to replicate and reinforce racism and other forms of oppression. If I had the chance to add one book to every student’s curriculum, I would add The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, by Michelle Alexander. Alexander is masterful in demonstrating how systemic racism forms the backbone of our criminal “justice” system, and extends its tendrils deep into life on the outside. She brings the complexity of our social work call to action into the light. While this book is a decade old, it remains powerful, poignant and relevant as we seek first to critically understand social injustice, so that we might effectively challenge it.

NEW FACES Kim Mayer CalSWEC Center Director Kimberly Mayer started her role as CalSWEC Center Director in October 2019.

strategies with a wide range of stakeholders.

Tell us about your professional background.

My professional background includes serving in leadership roles in a variety of sectors, including nonprofit, corporate, and government organizations, primarily in the Bay Area. My experiences in consulting led me to a position in Contra Costa Health Services, managing programs serving clients in behavioral health and CalWORKs. In 2008 I joined California Institute for Behavioral Health Solutions, and led several regional and statewide behavioral health workforce development projects. My work also included projects with DHCS and CDSS, providing technical assistance for CCR implementation. From 2017 to 2019 I served as lead behavioral health consultant to the California Future Health Workforce Commission, developing recommendations and

What interested you in the position at Berkeley Social Welfare?

I am excited to lead CalSWEC, a statewide program with wide reach in California. I am passionate about supporting education and training for social workers in child welfare, behavioral health, aging and health in increasingly multifaceted roles, emphasizing cross-systems collaboration. As a social worker, I have experienced working with and have been mentored by professionals who embody the leadership skills needed in our current world. I am also very excited to be back at Cal, having completed my undergraduate degree in social welfare almost 30 years ago. I completed my masters degree in social work at Columbia University. Having experience in New York and California has given me a broad perspective and appreciation for our field.

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What are you most looking forward to in your role?

Ensuring that CalSWEC is meeting the obligations to its partners, including UC Berkeley, the California Department of Social Services, the Regional Training Academies and universities in the consortium is critical. The fiscal environment in 2020 in California is very different than when CalSWEC was formed in 1990. I look forward to meeting the ongoing challenges in our day-to-day work, and also focusing on areas of potential growth for CalSWEC, particularly as it relates to behavioral health workforce development. I am very excited to return to Haviland Hall after 30 years, and work with Dean Burton and the School of Social Welfare.

What are some of the projects you’re currently working on?

Priorities are quickly changing — ­ as I write this, we are in the third week of a mandatory Shelter in Place due to COVID-19. We are lucky that CalSWEC staff are accustomed to remote work. COVID-19’s impacts on social work education and fieldwork have been swift, with campuses moving to online learning. Universities and counties are working together to find resources and implement remote field educational activities.

CalSWEC has developed resources for alternatives to fieldwork, posted on our website. Our In-Service Training program is transitioning to remote training and learning platforms to support continued workforce development for counties. Similar efforts are underway in our Integrated Behavioral Health & Aging programs. UC Berkeley has developed tools for Instructional Resilience — supporting online platforms for education and learning during times of campus disruption. Social workers are part of our essential workforce, and I believe this pandemic will drive continued innovation, and hopefully, long-term resilience.

What do you enjoy doing outside of Haviland Hall?

In addition to enjoying my extended family, I’m a big fan and supporter of theater, music and gardening. I have also served in a variety of board roles with several nonprofit organizations, and am past president of Contra Costa Civic Theatre in El Cerrito.

Title IV-E Retrospective Study CalSWEC is pleased to announce the results of the Title IV-E Retrospective Study. This evaluation is based on over 1,650 Title IV-E graduates responses and covered topics including demographics, PCW experience prior to entering the program, employment experiences, and career trajectories (fields, positions, years worked, and employment transitions).

Results from the CalSWEC Title IV-E Retrospective Survey provided several key findings.

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Nearly 93% of Title IV-E graduates completed (or were completing) the program’s employment obligation.

Title IV-E graduates worked an average of 6.2 years at their agency as a Title IV-E Social Worker.

Title IV-E graduates worked an average of 3.5 years at their agency after their employment obligation was completed.

Part-time Title IV-E graduates had the most prior experience and most years working at their employment obligation agencies.

NEW FACES Beverly Thorpe Assistant Dean of Strategic Initiatives Beverly Thorpe started her role as Assistant Dean of Strategic Initiatives in January 2020.

Tell us about your professional background.

I have over 25 years of extensive experience in strategic planning, budget development, financial reporting, sponsored research administration, and project management. Prior to joining SSW as the Assistant Dean of Strategic Initiatives, I served as Associate Director for Administration at the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University. I’ve also held leadership positions with several other organizations including the National Audubon Society, Amtrak, Duke University School of Medicine, and NYU School of Medicine. I earned both my BS in Administration of Criminal Justice and MPA from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

What interested you in the position at Berkeley Social Welfare?

I’m delighted to be able to work alongside Dean Linda Burton again (we’re former colleagues at Duke University) to ensure that Berkeley Social Welfare achieves its long-term strategic planning goals and to be able to use my expertise to develop and implement new and innovative strategic initiatives with faculty, staff, students, and community partners.

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What are you most looking forward to in your new role?

I’m really looking forward to networking and collaborating with a number of diverse and dynamic individuals and organizations in the Bay Area and beyond including SSW faculty, staff, students, alumni, interdisciplinary teams on campus, community partners and businesses, and local, state and federal government officials — all who have the appropriate knowledge to help us succeed in implementing our strategic initiatives.

What are some of the projects you’re currently working on?

The signature project that I’m currently spearheading is our Social Welfare and Sports Initiative.

Berkeley Social Welfare is planning to expand its reach in this new decade with one of the most cutting edge high-impact initiatives it has launched in recent years — a certificate program in Social Welfare and Sports. This structured curriculum will be housed in our MSW program and anchored in a social justice perspective. I’m working closely with faculty, staff, students, campus leaders, community partners, and external consultants to bring this program to fruition.

What do you enjoy doing outside of Haviland Hall?

In my spare time I enjoy live music, festivals, traveling, wine tastings, Tarheel basketball, and good old-fashioned family time.

milestones

Building Community:

Dean Linda Burton’s First Year Since joining the School of Social Welfare last fall, Dean Linda Burton has been working diligently to engage with her new community and collaborate with elected public officials throughout California. In February, Mayor Jesse Arreguín appointed Dean Burton to the Commission on the Status of Women, where she will work as a public official for the City of Berkeley. In February, Dean Burton visited the state Capitol with Assistant Deans Veronica Alexander and Beverly Thorpe, to share the school’s priorities in meetings with lawmakers. Meeting with members of the California Legislative Black Caucus, the Select Committee on the Status of Boys and Men of Color, and the Assembly Select Committee on Gun Violence, Burton shared the need to recruit young men of color to the social welfare workforce, and discussed potential partnership opportunities between Berkeley Social Welfare and the California Legislature.

Linda Burton also engaged in a “listening tour” with alumni and other stakeholders, meeting with over 200 alumni in five cities to hear their experiences, learn their priorities, and share her vision. In addition, she created an alumni board and a student advisory board to provide a sustained structure for feedback.

Under Dean Burton’s leadership, the School has also begun to set in motion “communities of practice” connecting alumni with current students and with each other in a professional context to foster a climate of mentorship, engagement, and inclusion.

With this feedback and engagement, Dean Burton will define strategic priorities that will position Berkeley Social Welfare to keep pace with a changing world — with its profound shifts in technology, identity, family structures, and policy — as we train a new generation of research scientists and direct practitioners to address America’s most pressing problems.

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Choice Experiences of sexuality and reproductive health are both deeply personal and nearly universal; Associate Professor Anu Manchikanti Gómez’s work explores the intersection between individual decisions, medical systems, and social structures.

Her interest in maternal health and reproductive decision-making is rooted in her upbringing. In her Kentucky high school, she explains, “I’m pretty sure we were supposed to have abstinence-only sex ed, but I just didn’t have anything.” And during childhood trips to visit family in India, she heard how her grandmother had given birth 16 times, but only eight of those children survived to age five. These lived experiences, among others, drove Gómez’s curiosity in understanding the layers of influence that play out in people’s sexual and reproductive lives.

Today Gómez leads the Sexual Health and Reproductive Equity (SHARE) Program, whose mission is “conducting rigorous research to advance the understanding of what it takes for individuals to have the families they envision, to realize reproductive self-determination, and to experience healthy sexuality.” She was honored in 2017 by the Bill & Melinda Gates Institute for Population and Reproductive Health at the John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health as part of the “120 Under 40: The New Generation of Family Planning Leaders” program. She was also the recipient of the 2017 Outstanding Young Professional Award from the

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Sexual and Reproductive Health Section of the American Public Health Association.

A key area of Gómez’s work focuses on lived experiences of contraceptive use. In contrast to the dominant discourse around contraception that focuses on method effectiveness, Gómez’s work holistically considers the range of factors that come into play as people choose and use — or don’t use — methods, particularly longacting reversible contraceptives (LARCs) like IUDs and implants.

Focusing solely on method effectiveness implies that is the most important metric and therefore implies that IUDs and implants are therefore the gold standard.

Through rigorous, mixed- methods research focused on people’s preferences rather than method characteristics, Gómez aims to bring a more nuanced understanding of the factors that influence decision-making.

Anu Manchikanti Gómez conducts research to advance reproductive self-determination In one of Gomez’s studies with Black and Latina, young cisgender women in the Bay Area, one of the strongest themes that emerged was that people wanted agency over their contraception. Internal contraception, like intrauterine devices, was perceived as more invasive, even among those who had previously used it. Access to health care was a significant factor as well, with a number of the women expressing concern about their access to insurance when it came time to remove the device. Patients who reported negative and judgmental care related to contraception — from dismissal of side effects to outright refusal to remove a device — were significantly more likely to prefer methods that did not require interaction with a health care provider. The study results, published in a 2018 article entitled “‘It would have control over me instead of me having control’: intrauterine devices and the meaning of reproductive freedom” highlight what Gómez calls “the contraception paradox — that contraception can be both a source of empowerment and agency for women who wish to control their fertility and a source of oppression for women deemed socially undesirable reproducers.”

“Contraception can be both a source of empowerment and agency for women who wish to control their fertility and a source of oppression for women deemed socially undesirable reproducers.”

Gómez’s other work also reframes dominant paradigms around family planning by centering the lived experiences of groups at the greatest risk of reproductive oppression. “It’s Not Planned, But Is It Okay? The Acceptability of Unplanned Pregnancy Among Young People” (2018) reframes the standard categories of “planned” and “unplanned” pregnancies into “acceptable” and “unacceptable”. This alternative categorization highlights how individuals most affected by social inequality have the least opportunity to formulate, actualize, and realize their pregnancy desires, rendering some pregnancies as “unplanned” because social conditions do not support reproductive self-determination. “‘Is That A Method of Birth Control?’ A Qualitative Exploration of Young Women’s Use of Withdrawal’” (2016) examines an under-studied practice and provides recommendations for including it in provider-patient conversations around contraception. An upcoming study will focus on how COVID-19 (and the related recession) is changing people’s preferences around pregnancy and timing, with a focus on how lowincome workers make decisions with the added constraints of shelter in place, job loss, and other stressors.

Gómez has also received acclaim for her work on the rollout of pharmacist-prescribed contraception in California. Since 2016, California pharmacists have been authorized to prescribe short-term, hormonal contraception. Gomez’s 2017 study, published in

photo: Associate Professor Anu Manchikanti Gómez

JAMA, revealed that only 11% of pharmacies engaged in the practice. In a follow-up study, she explored facilitators and barriers to implementing pharmacistprescribed contraception. These data revealed that pharmacists were aware of the role that they could play in reducing healthcare costs and increasing community access by prescribing contraception.

However, the primary barriers to offering this service were logistical: the physical layout of stores was not conducive to private consultations; staffing levels did not allow time for extended conversations; and pharmacies and insurers are not set up to bill for consultations.

Gómez is currently engaged in an ongoing study of the implementation of pharmacist-prescribed contraception in Tulare County in the Central Valley.

Under a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Interdisciplinary Research Leaders Program, Gómez is now partnering with ACT for Women and Girls, a Visalia-based reproductive justice organization, and UCSD, to examine community members’ needs and preferences around pharmacist prescribing of contraception in a region where contraceptive access in rural areas can be difficult.

This study will identify strategies to support more pharmacies in offering this service, in ways that align with community needs. And by working closely with a community partner in a collaborative effort, study findings and community solutions will go hand-in-hand.

Community partnership is a hallmark of Gómez’s ongoing research. In another project, Gómez is partnering with SisterWeb, a nonprofit that aims to provide culturally competent birth and postpartum care to communities that experience higher risks of preterm birth and other adverse outcomes. The SHARE Program is working closely with SisterWeb to conduct a collaborative evaluation that identifies strategies for successful implementation of community doula care programs. By interviewing clients, doulas, mentors, and labor and delivery care providers, the project aims to build a holistic picture of successes and barriers in implementing the program.

Gómez stresses that research and evaluation conducted in close partnership with community organization is not the typical approach, where the “objective outsider helicopters in, doesn’t really understand the community very well, and never shares back the findings” but a paradigm in which “we’re trying to really center equity and justice in knowledge production. You can’t do that if the only people who are really making the decisions about what we study, how we do research, and what data mean are those who are already in positions of power and privilege in academia.”

Given the sample size for San Francisco’s community doula program, it’s unlikely that the study will be able to measure the impact of community doula care on birth outcomes like cesarean section rates or preterm birth. However, they will be able to assess the effect of doula support on experiences of birth and engagement with prenatal and postpartum care.

And while Gómez is a strong believer in doulas’ ability to support clients in better birth experiences, she is circumspect about doulas’ ability to counterbalance bias in healthcare systems.

“The reason those risks to maternal health in the Black community exist are because of racism and the historical, ongoing trauma that’s faced by Black people in the United States. To say that a doula from the same community can interrupt that is very powerful. But while doulas can push for better care for their clients, they didn’t create these broken systems, and we shouldn’t put the burden of fixing them on their backs.”

With other pilot programs for doula care springing up around the state, Gómez hopes to be able to expand the scope of her inquiry in a way that would yield more information about maternal and infant health outcomes, as well as the feasibility of MediCal reimbursements for doulas.

All of Gómez’s work plays out against the backdrop of the political landscape around reproductive health care. Revisions to the Title X program, the federal family planning program for low-income individuals, have led to an erosion of access to highquality reproductive healthcare in under-resourced communities. A current Supreme Court case stands to reduce access to contraception through employersponsored health insurance, and access to abortion is under threat both from state laws and from another case before the Supreme Court.

Gómez’s work is vital under any circumstances, but particularly so in today’s political climate, where it is more important than ever to prioritize the experiences and needs of under-resourced communities and ensure access to high-quality, affordable care that supports all people in selfdetermining if, when, and how they want to become pregnant.

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OF NCE strengths-based COVID-19

We didn’t start this year thinking that we would be operating the School of Social Welfare out of our living rooms. But with all of California sheltering in place this spring, the COVID-19 crisis has upended the school year. Despite the disruptions and the many uncertainties, the upheaval of this school year has built our resourcefulness and reminded us of our strengths.

We first started hearing about instructional resilience in October 2019, when planned power shut-offs cancelled classes and closed the Cal campus, and 200,000 people were evacuated due to fires in the North Bay. With the possibility of more shutoffs and wildfires looming, UC Berkeley stepped up its campuswide preparations for how to keep things running if students, faculty, and staff couldn’t come to campus. Most people realized that this was a valuable practice run, but few thought that our resilience would be tested so much, so soon.

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COVID-19 cases in the US started making headlines shortly after the Spring semester started. Throughout the month of February, we received travel advisories and other updates from campus leadership. Then in early March, things started to change very quickly.

On March 2, when the first case of COVID-19 was confirmed in Alameda County, faculty and students were told to prepare for possible disruptions to

with the dilemma of how to shield students from front-line risks while minimizing disruptions to agencies and populations they were placed with.

Director of Field Education Greg Merrill and all of the field instructors spent long hours working with partner agencies and with students to find solutions.

Field partners had previously been asked to identify alternate learning activities, so some students were

Shifting to online instruction is a major pivot to any program, but what do you do when your program has a field education component? instruction. Then on Friday, March 6, an email from Chancellor Carol Christ called on all members of the campus community to “prepare for the possibility that in the near future we will need to shift to working, teaching, and learning remotely and virtually as much as possible.” On Monday March 9 came the announcement that in-person instruction was suspended, and UC Berkeley — followed shortly by the rest of the state — embarked on a massive experiment in distance learning. Shelter-in-place orders were announced the following week and remain in place as of this writing.

Shifting to online instruction is a major pivot to any program, but what do you do when your program has a field education component? Faculty wrestled

able to continue hours remotely. In recognition of the level of disruption that both students and agencies were facing, the senate faculty approved a one-time reduction of required field education hours for cohorts entering in 2018–19 and 2019–20. This reduction remained within CSWE guidelines, and the 7% of students who had additional hours to complete were able to access online pre-licensure courses offered by the NASW. As Merrill phrased it in a mid-March email to field partners, “this is not how any of us wanted our year of field instruction to go.” As with so many other aspects of COVID-19, it demanded flexibility in the face of rapid change, but the strength of our relationships with field partners stood us in good stead.

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candidate Maggie Downey shares the letter offering her an assistant professorship at Tulane. Image courtesy of Anu Manchikanti Gómez.

Meanwhile, the shift to online instruction presented its own set of complexities. Preparing an in-person course for an online platform takes more than one week in the best of times, and these were not the best of times. Some students didn’t have adequate equipment or wifi access at home; the campuswide Student Technology Fund organized a laptop and wifi hotspot lending program for those students. Other problems were harder to solve. With K-12 schools closed throughout California, some faculty members and some students suddenly found themselves homeschooling. Financial pressures loomed large, too.

In short, moving course content online was just one among many changes that students and faculty faced. In recognition of these stressors, faculty made a number of changes. Following campuswide instructions, they dropped attendance requirements so that students with caregiving responsibilities wouldn’t be penalized. Syllabi and assignments were revised to focus on core content and reflect the challenging circumstances everyone was working under. To reduce student stress, the default grading option was changed to Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory for graduates and P/NP for undergrads. As Associate Dean Susan Stone stated in an email to faculty, “our goal is to adhere to our academic mission by maintaining instructional continuity for our students balanced with both compassion and flexibility.”

Through all of this, Dean Linda Burton consistently

sent messages of compassion and support reminding both students and faculty of the resources available to them. Her messages — and the staff and faculty actively helping students navigate an unprecedented situation — made it clear that “we will not let you fall through the cracks.” Moreover, she encouraged everyone to see the opportunity to emerge stronger. “[The pandemic] is going to force us to step up, be creative, and navigate our lives in very different ways.

It will also reveal our strengths and help us to elevate those strengths to new heights within ourselves as individuals and among others. We might consider this real-time test of who we are as an opportunity to further develop our talents.” In an unsettling time, Dean Burton provided unwavering reminders of our individual and collective strengths.

Staff adjusted to working remotely, and discovered new sides of their colleagues as they peeked into each other’s living rooms and got glimpses of each other’s children and pets. Opportunities to share good news became more important than ever.

As the pandemic highlighted longstanding social inequities, it brought a new urgency to the problems that Berkeley Social Welfare exists to address. Since mid-March 2020, faculty, graduate students, and alumni have contributed to national conversations around behavioral health, equity, and other key issues in the time of COVID-19. Jeff Edleson was interviewed by CNN and Berkeley News about the

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Since mid-March 2020, faculty, graduate students, and alumni have contributed to national conversations around behavioral health, equity, and other key issues in the time of COVID-19. impact of lockdowns on domestic violence, Tina Sacks was interviewed by Berkeley News about racial inequities in health care, and Erin Kerrison was interviewed by KPFA about the unequal impact of COVID on disproportionately black neighborhoods in the East Bay. Adrian Aguilera was interviewed by the San Francisco Chronicle about digital health, and led a panel discussion about telehealth and issues of equity for under-resourced communities as part of the “Berkeley Conversations” series. Susan Stone and her research partner Joyce Dorado of UCSF outlined trauma-informed strategies for addressing the impacts of COVID-19, also as part of the “Berkeley Conversations” series. In June, Erin Kerrison will lead a panel discussion on COVID-19 in the context of law enforcement and the justice system.

Postdoctoral researcher Caroline Figueroa published an op-ed arguing that COVID-19 shows the need for remote options for mental health care.

Doctoral student Katie Savin published an article exploring the implications of disability discrimination in health care decision-making during the pandemic.

The pandemic is also leading to new research directions for our faculty. Adrian Aguilera’s ongoing study about the effectiveness of automated text messaging as a support for cognitive behavioral therapy is now exploring the effectiveness of automated messaging for mental health support under social distancing conditions. Anu Manchikanti Gómez shifted her study focused on stress and pregnancy among Black and Latinx women in

SNAPSHOT: COVID-19 Impacts and Social Work Interventions Emphasis on Telehealth Literacy and Access

Disproportionate Impacts on Specific Client Populations Low-income Americans African-American community Disabled individuals Incarcerated, detained, and justice-involved individuals Homeless populations Detained immigrants and undocumented families Children in foster care Older individuals

Renewed Focus on Provider Self-care

Enhanced Attention on Mental Health

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Creative Strategies for Safe Client Contact and Engagement

Increased Connections with Community Organizing and Public Policy

Alameda County and San Francisco to examine the additional impact of COVID-19 related stress. Gómez is also proposing a new study that focuses on how COVID-19 (and the related recession) is changing people’s preferences around pregnancy and timing, with a focus on how low-income workers make decisions with the added constraints of shelter-inplace, job loss, etc.

Given the many impacts of COVID-19 on the practice of social work, the pandemic also presented an unexpected opportunity to connect professionally.

Greg Merrill created a series of online discussion forums for alumni to share their experiences and best practices as social workers in the middle of a pandemic. This effort to create an online community of practice among social workers responding to COVID-19 was very well received, with many participants commenting on the value of being able to hear from other MSWs about day-to-day experiences in their field. Since current students were invited as well, the forum was also an opportunity to build professional connections.

CalSWEC also found opportunities to innovate. In early May, the Integrated Behavioral Health Program held a virtual version of its annual San Francisco Bay Area Integrated Behavioral Health Symposium focusing on the use of telehealth in the delivery

of behavioral health care services in primary care settings. CalSWEC developed COVID-19 resources for partner universities to reflect changes in field conditions for Title IV-E students. In addition, Bay Area project coordinators from San Jose State University, San Francisco State University, Cal State East Bay, and UC Berkeley, worked with CalSWEC staff to develop an online Field Instructor Training which will be ready to use by fall 2020.

In this sense, the pandemic has opened some new possibilities. Online lectures and trainings will make our programming more accessible to working professionals and students considering a career in social welfare. Virtual communities of practice will connect alumni with each other and with students.

As of this writing, many uncertainties remain. But as a school of social work with a mission to tackle some of the world’s toughest problems, there will be many occasions when we are faced with problems that are beyond our individual power to solve. By definition, social work offers problem-based learning and asks that we stay regulated even when there are no easy answers. But we are no strangers to hardship, we are resilient, we are compassionate, we are not afraid of a challenge, and we will continue to support each other and connect with our larger community as we work through challenges and uncertainty.

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“It’s so important that we cultivate and support a community that includes parents and their children... Love has a way of anchoring us in ways we don’t even always know are needed. I am so very grateful to see our students share theirs in this way, and so many others.” – Erin Kerrison

photo: Erin Kerrison’s weekly Zoom meeting of PhD students included a session dedicated to kids, pets, and stuffies.

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Always Faithful Matthew Smith (BA ‘18, MSW ‘20) Helps Fellow Veterans and Beyond

Student veteran Matthew Smith (BA ‘18; MSW ‘20) made the decision to become a social worker in the aftermath of a friend’s suicide. If the Veterans’ Administration had been able to give his friend the opioid painkillers he OD’d on, Smith wondered, why had they not successfully connected him to behavioral health resources? “I got so full of grief and anger,” explains Smith, “I decided that day to get involved and I started volunteering with different veterans’ organizations in the community.” Eight years later, Smith is a second-year MSW student with a focus on behavioral health for veterans.

Along the way, he has helped improve conditions for student veterans at Santa Rosa Junior College, at UC Berkeley, and elsewhere in the UC system.

Smith enlisted in the Marines in the wake of 9/11. He thought he would be fighting the Taliban or al Qaeda, but was deployed to Iraq, where his unit saw heavy fighting in Fallujah. “In my unit we lost 33 killed in action and close to 500

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wounded. Everybody I know was wounded,” says Smith. He suffered a serious knee injury, and after surgery in the U.S. he was considering a medical separation from the Marines. Then he learned that his unit was being sent to Haditha, a town where the bodies of American Marines had recently been desecrated, so he volunteered to return to Iraq. Haditha soon became the site of a massacre of civilians by U.S. troops. “I got to see the horrible side of war, and what it does to people who you would consider your friends, people you think could never be capable of doing horrible things like that.” He became even more disillusioned when the leadership attempted to cover up these atrocities, and he left the Marines.

Smith returned to his hometown in Atlanta and found work as an electrician. But when the recession hit, jobs became scarce and eventually Smith found himself living in his truck, struggling to afford food for himself and his dog, and increasingly turning to alcohol to help him sleep as he

grappled with undiagnosed PTSD. One night, after drinking a full bottle of Jack Daniels, he decided to shoot himself, but passed out before he could act on his decision.

The next morning he called a friend to take him to a VA hospital, where he sat down with a social worker. “When you go see a doctor, they ask you where it hurts. But the social worker asked me ‘Are you sleeping at night? How much are you drinking? Do you have a job? Housing?’” Smith got connected to services and began to get treatment for PTSD. A few years later he moved out to Santa Rosa, where he was living when he got the news that his friend had followed through on suicide.

As he looked for ways to help veterans who were struggling, Smith thought of the social worker who had helped him at his darkest time. He was initially daunted by the idea of pursuing a graduate degree but soon enrolled at Santa Rosa Junior College. Working at the Veterans’ Center there, he quickly discovered that some of his fellow student veterans were struggling. He began checking in with people, asking the questions that the VA social worker had asked him, but quickly moved from helping individuals to trying to improve systems.

He started advocating persistently with the president of the college and the board of governors. By the time Matthew

Berkeley Social Welfare to send out an email to alumni asking for MSWs to volunteer their time. These efforts earned the Cal Veterans’ Group the Chancellor’s Public Service Award in Spring 2018.

In November 2018, Smith was invited to speak at a UC Regents’ meeting focused on the experience of student veterans. In addition to describing some of the highlights of his experience at Berkeley and stressing that the campus was welcoming to veterans, he used his time to recommend that the Regents and the UC Office of the President support more effective collaboration between UC campuses and the Veterans’ Health Administration through the development of a memorandum of understanding.

Since then, he has continued to be involved in conversations around improving services for UC student veterans. Smith partnered with the director of the San Francisco VA Student Veteran Health Program, fellow Berkeley Social Welfare alum Keith Armstrong (MSW ‘84), to bring VA healthcare to UC campuses. In mid-September, the San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center, in partnership with the Cal Veteran Services Center and the UC Office of the President, brought VA healthcare to UC Berkeley. Student veterans were able to enroll in VA healthcare, get an ID card, learn about

“When a veteran has a support system in place, they have a higher graduation rate and completion rate than their civilian counterparts.”

Smith transferred to Berkeley, he had helped bring about improved study spaces at SRJC’s Veterans’ Center and an on-site social worker two days per week. Smith explains why these support systems are so vital: “One-third of the people who have served since 9/11 go college. The majority of them have to start off in a junior college, and that’s where we’re losing them. But when a veteran has a support system in place, they have a higher graduation rate and completion rate than their civilian counterparts.”

At Berkeley — which he chose in part because of its Veterans’ Center — Smith settled in as a Social Welfare major. His commitment to helping others came to the forefront again when the Tubbs fire roared through the North Bay in October 2017, devastating neighborhoods and displacing thousands of people. Smith spent most of a week volunteering at evacuation centers. He brought needed supplies, he cleaned bathrooms, and he helped improvise an exam room for evacuees who needed medical attention. He also just sat and listened to evacuees who had been through a traumatic experience and needed to talk. Knowing that more help was needed, he recruited fellow Berkeley students: he put out the word through the Cal Veterans’ Center and the School of Public Health that volunteers were needed, and he asked

eligible services, learn how to use VA telehealth on their smartphones, schedule appointments for primary care and mental health, and meet with a doctor. This rollout was the first of its kind in the U.S. Smith’s advocacy has helped to make a difference for thousands of student vets.

His MSW field placement currently has him providing mental health counseling through the VA in San Francisco.

He describes his supervisor, Nicole Muller (MSW ‘08), as “amazing” and devoted to improving the lives of the veterans she helps.

Smith has now reached the goal he has spent the last seven years working towards, and he plans to continue his focus on mental health services for veterans after graduation. But these days, Smith has another major priority in his life: his first child was born in September. “Occasionally, you have to look back and see where you’ve come from. Soon after my baby was born, I finally got to lay down that night and I remember thinking how grateful I am for everything that I have. I’m grateful that I’m able to be here, coming to this school. I’m really grateful that I’m able to help other people.

And I’m grateful that I got help and that I didn’t follow through on suicide because I wouldn’t have been able to experience all these awesome things.” •

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She’s On Fire Esmeralda Cortez Rosales (BASW ‘19) wants to empower young women to find their political voice

Esmeralda Cortez Rosales (BASW ‘19) traces her commitment to more just, equitable, and inclusive policies to a single life-altering moment. “When I was 10 years old, two police officers came to my house one morning to notify my family that my brother had been shot and killed three minutes away from my house. He was 18 years old.

To this day, we don’t know who killed him or why.” Three years later her best friend’s brother, also 18, was killed, and she began to think of violence in the community as part of a larger pattern. “I didn’t want anyone to go through what I and my best friend have been through.”

However, Cortez Rosales’s political path didn’t start right away. It took her involvement in IGNITE, a program at her East Oakland high school, to start to draw connections between her lived experience — and that of her community — and local and national politics. “IGNITE really helped me connect the dots,” she explains. When she enrolled at UC Berkeley, she went to work for IGNITE and led the program at her former high school.

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photo: Esmeralda Cortez Rosales in Washington DC at the US Capit0l Building in 2019.

After graduating in August 2019, she was offered a job at IGNITE as West Coast Program Manager. IGNITE, which was founded by Berkeley Social Welfare alum Anne Moses (PhD ‘96), is a nonpartisan organization that aims to boost political participation by women in the U.S., regardless of party affiliation. As Cortez Rosales explains, “if women are half of the population, we should be extremely close to ­— if not 50% of — all elected officials across the country.” With that goal in mind, IGNITE offers programming in schools across the country from the elementary level on up through college.

Since Cortez Rosales manages all college programs in the West Coast states as well as Arizona and Nevada, UC Berkeley’s IGNITE chapter — launched in Fall 2019 — falls under her purview. Cal and IGNITE are a perfect fit, she explains, “because there are a lot of people here who identify with activism and social issues.” She also manages five fellows who are working to found college chapters in other West Coast states, as well as curriculum partners and community partnerships between IGNITE and organizations like Women’s March Oakland.

“I think it’s really important to go in with your truth and your reality and your story. Because that’s what moves mountains at the end of the day.”

Cortez Rosales stresses the inclusion and empowerment at the heart of IGNITE’s mission: “The people who come through our program don’t always have an interest in politics. It’s our job to make them understand that the personal is political, and it’s our job to teach them that they do have political power. When I first started with IGNITE in high school I didn’t care about politics. I didn’t know what a mayor or a city council did, or how they work together. But just being in the program, your political ambition starts to grow and grow.

That’s what’s unique about IGNITE. We’re not necessarily training you to run for office, but we’re building up that political ambition, because we all have political power.”

She also draws the connection between her political involvement and her time in Haviland Hall. She found that what she was learning in class was instantly applicable to the larger world: “I just loved being here. The Social Welfare major really helped me think critically about every issue that comes through our hands.” Not only did she find her professors’ expertise illuminating, but she valued the mix of experiences and perspectives in the classroom: “The people are great, too.

People from all walks of life come into the classroom, and when you have a lot of minds put together, you can create solutions that you would have never thought of.”

During this time, she also served with the Oakland Youth Advisory Commission, which brought recommendations to the mayor and city council on issues related to youth.

She helped conduct a youth survey in Oakland — including organizing the participation of her former high school — and pushed for greater attention to youth mental health concerns as well as a better understanding of the number and needs of homeless youth in Oakland. Her social welfare studies helped inform her work with the commission, and vice versa.

In January 2019, she stepped down from the Oakland Youth Advisory Commission to pursue a different kind of political involvement: she interned in the office of congresswoman Barbara Lee (MSW ‘75) as part of the UCDC program. “One of the highlights was when constituents come into the office who recognize Barbara Lee as a spokesperson for them.” She also valued the connection that Congresswoman Lee draws between politics and social welfare. But her most rewarding moment came when her family visited her in Washington, D.C. and came to Barbara Lee’s office. “It was so eye-opening to see my brother and sister come to the nation’s capital, and have them be there with me in that moment just had me holding back tears. We come from East Oakland, we don’t really go to the capitol. It was beautiful to be able to show them that their voice matters.”

Cortez Rosales’s desire to speak up on behalf of those who aren’t always heard has not stopped with her work at IGNITE. She is also currently running for the Oakland City Council in District 7, which includes East Oakland and the airport area. When she asks District 7 residents what their priorities are, many of them mention illegal dumping and potholes. People don’t even mention crime, she explains, “because it’s so normalized for us to have people being shot or being robbed that we don’t even mention it. It’s not seen as fixable.” Cortez Rosales is juggling the challenges of running for office while also working full time, but she is committed to being a voice for housing and jobs in her hometown.

“I believe that we should all have opportunities to be able to succeed in Oakland.”

One thread running through her story is a belief in the power of example. Cortez Rosales explains that after she photos: Esmeralda graduated in August, as a first-generation Cortez Rosales with Rep. college student she was eagerly awaiting her Ayanna Pressley and Rep. diploma in the mail. When her mail carrier Barbara Lee (MSW ‘75) and at Women’s March handed it to her, she began to cry. “[The Oakland in January 2020. mail carrier] asked, ‘What is it? What is it?’ and I said ‘It’s my diploma. It’s my degree. I just graduated from UC Berkeley.’ She was so excited. Then a couple of days later the mail carrier came by again and said, ‘I forgot to ask you: what did you get your degree in?’ and I said, ‘Social Welfare.’ And she just looked at me and said ‘Great. We need more people like you.’”

The world does need more people like Esmeralda. We look forward to seeing what she accomplishes next, and how many people she helps empower to find their voices. As she puts it: “I think it’s really important to go in with your truth and your reality and your story. Because that’s what moves mountains at the end of the day.” •

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ROBERT AYASSE Field Instructor

Robert Ayasse is retiring at the end of the semester after nearly 20 years as field consultant and lecturer and 10 years as co-chair of the Pupil Personnel Services Credential (PPSC) program for work as a school social worker in California K-12 public schools.

What led you to focus on social work in schools?

I have had a long interest in working with children, particularly adolescents. My first job out of graduate school was with an agency that provides school-based counseling for high school students referred for substance abuse problems. Later, I worked as one of the first social workers serving foster youth in schools. Over time, I recognized the importance of working systemically with schools to help children experiencing social and emotional difficulties. Schools are small communities and provide many opportunities to practice social work on multiple levels.

What are you proudest of in your career?

I have worked with a lot of individual clients, families, and groups and always enjoyed it. When I think back on that, there were three boys referred to me through the Foster Youth Program at Mt Diablo USD who were at the point of being expelled from school. I worked with each of them through their Middle and High School years, and two of them successfully graduated from high school. The third student left the district, but had not been suspended again. Also at MDUSD, I helped establish a school-based and school-linked internship program and wrote the initial grants for social work services that continue to this day.

At the School of Social Welfare as co-chair of the PPSC program, I developed curriculum and recruited field placements that have helped to grow the program from awarding the credential to about 10 students per year to about 30 per year. This grows to over 40 students if we include those in the Post-MSW PPSC program — which was developed on my initiative. I also developed a BBS-approved Law and Ethics In Schools training that has allowed hundreds of LCSWs working in schools to earn their required CEUs with material most relevant to their field of practice.

Recently, I helped to write the new School Social Work Standards and Performance Expectations for the CA CTC that govern the PPSC program. These standards are closely linked to the CSWE EPAS and provide a progressive, clear, and cohesive framework for school social work services. I think they are a model for the rest of the country to the extent that California has the most comprehensive school social work credential requirements of any state. I did this work in collaboration with a lot of other creative, compassionate, and dedicated social workers and educators. I am most proud to have been associated with them and pleased to have had the opportunity to have them as colleagues.

Any words of wisdom for students or colleagues?

I have always found it important to have a clear idea about where I want to go and to link up and collaborate with others to go there together. Doing things collaboratively is slower and sometimes frustrating in the short term, but more rewarding and sustainable in the long run. •

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HAVILAND BRIEFS FACULTY NOTES Associate Professor Adrian Aguilera was quoted in a San Francisco Chronicle article about inequities in healthcare access during the COVID-19 crisis.

Professor of the Graduate School Michael J. Austin and Sarah Carnochan’s co-authored book, Practice Research In The Human Services: A University-Agency Partnership Model, has been published by Oxford University Press.

Professor Jill Duerr Berrick presented her book The Impossible Imperative to a number of organizations: to the West Coast Child Welfare Trainers’ conference, to all San Diego County child welfare managers and supervisors, to the state of North Carolina statewide Permanency Promotion conference, at two Title IV-E student career events, and to Binti, a nationwide non-profit agency dedicated to improving foster care. The Impossible Imperative was also a finalist in the 2019 Media for a Just Society Awards, the only national recognition of media whose work furthers public understanding of criminal justice, juvenile justice, and child welfare.

In March, the Philadelphia Inquirer published Dr. Berrick’s op-ed, which lends her expertise on matters of discrimination within the foster care system and what is at stake in Fulton vs The City of Philadelphia for LGBT families within the foster care system. This spring, Dr. Berrick’s work titled “How Federal Laws Relating to Foster Care Financing Shape Child Welfare Services” was published in the Oxford Handbook for Children and the Law. Assistant Professor Yu-Ling Chang published two articles: “Does state unemployment insurance modernization explain the trajectories of economic security among working households?

Longitudinal Evidence from the 2008 Survey of Income and Program Participation in Journal of Family and Economic Issues and “Second-order devolution and the hidden structural discrimination? Examining county welfare-to-work service systems in California.” in Journal of Poverty. She also presented two papers at 2020 SSWR, “The Gendered Effects of Unemployment Insurance Modernization Provisions on Benefit Receipt Among Unemployed Workers with Children” and “Laboratories of Welfare Devolution Revolution: Examining the Implementation of Welfare-to-Work in California.”

Professor Julian Chow gave the keynote address entitled “Using Big Data in Social Welfare Policy Research for Left-Behind Children” at the International Symposium on the Application of Big Data in Social Security at Wuhan University, China in June 2019. Chow also presented two papers at the 21st Biennial Conference of International Consortium of Social Development in Indonesia in July, and organized and moderated a panel “Empowerment and Capacity Building: Knowledge, Skills, Tools, and Resources for Collaboration” at the 2019 International Conference on Developmental Social Work in Taipei, Taiwan. Chow and his research team members, including Marla Stuart and Susan Stone, also published an article “Using big data for rural left-behind children welfare policy research” in Social Security Studies.

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In September, Associate Professor Emmeline Chuang and colleagues at the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research published an interim report highlighting preliminary findings from the statewide evaluation of California’s Whole Person Care (WPC) Pilot Program, which is part of California’s Medicaid Section 1115(a) Waiver Demonstration. A follow-up article was published in Health Affairs in April. She also lead-authored a policy brief and associated webinar on care coordination in WPC and in December, she collaborated with colleagues at University of Louisville and Portland State University to publish a policy brief on strategies for facilitating evidence use by frontline staff in private child welfare agencies.

Peer-reviewed manuscripts published include a study of relational processes affecting private human service agency contract outcomes in Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory and a study on lessons learned by health care organizations in redesigning the role of medical assistants in primary care in Medical Care Research & Review.

Dean Emeritus Jeffrey Edleson completed the first draft of a biographical manuscript titled “Jessica Blanche Peixotto and the Founding of Berkeley Social Welfare.” Edleson and doctoral student Laura Brignone published “The Dating and Domestic Violence App Rubric: Synthesizing Clinical Best Practices and Digital Health App Standards for Relationship Violence Prevention Smartphone Apps, in International Journal of Human–Computer Interaction.

In October, Edleson testified at the Little Hoover Commission in Sacramento on the future of California policy and programs to prevent intimate partner violence. Edleson has also been appointed to the Technical Expert Panel advising on the first national Australian Child Maltreatment Study to be led by the Queensland University of Technology, he has authored “The Role of Expert Witnesses in Proving Grave Risk to Children” which appeared in the October/November 2019 issue of Domestic Violence Report, and he was interviewed as part of CNN’s coverage of increased domestic violence risks as a result of the COVID-19 crisis.

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 Emerita Jewelle Taylor Gibbs was inducted into the California Social Work Hall of Distinction, which honors individuals who have made exceptional contributions to social welfare and the social work profession.

Professor Neil Gilbert presented a paper on the Future of the Korean Welfare State and a seminar on the Evolution of the Korean

in memoriam: Sylvia Bracamonte 1986 - 2020 Sylvia was a leader in our community and was greatly admired. Tina Sacks remembers her as “light, life, and love,” and Kurt Organista as “just on fire about education [and] “thrilled to be a social worker.” Christina Feliciana says she was “a fierce advocate, a kind and reflective learner, a loving mother and a generous friend to her classmates. She was a warrior for her Latinx community.” eveline chang describes her as “a phenomenal scholar of life, of truth and of justice; an organizer and bridge-builder who has truly embodied love at the core of everything she fought for across all communities.”

Welfare State, sponsored by the Korean Institute for Health and Social Affairs and the National Pension Services in Seoul last May. He also gave the keynote address at the Vision 2026 Forum for Community Care, sponsored by the Korean Ministry of Health and Welfare and Korean Academy of Health Policy, and National Health Insurance Services in Seoul. In June, he co-chaired the annual Conference and Business Meeting of the International Network for Social Policy Teaching and Research at the University of Zagreb, gave the keynote address at the International Symposium on Welfare, Work and Social Inequality at the University of Hamburg, and gave talks at the University of Malaga and the University of Granada.

in psychology. The award recognizes his accomplishments in developmental psychopathology and reducing the stigma of mental illness.

Anu Manchikanti Gómez was granted tenure and promoted from Assistant to Associate Professor. Her publications include “Facilitators and Barriers to Implementing Pharmacist-Prescribed Hormonal Contraception: A Qualitative Study with Independent Pharmacists in California” in Women & Health, “No Perfect Method: Exploring How Past Contraceptive Experiences Influence Current Attitudes Toward Intrauterine Devices” in Archives of Sexual Behavior and “Medical Conditions, Pregnancy Perspectives, and Contraceptive Decision-Making among Young People: An Exploratory, Qualitative Analysis” in Contraception. She also presented research at the SSWR conference and at the American Public Health Association annual meeting.

Professor of the Graduate School Jim Midgley was also inducted into the California Social Work Hall of Distinction in November. His latest book, Social Protection and Social Justice, was published by Edward Elgar Publishing in the United Kingdom.

Steve Hinshaw, Professor of Psychology and Affiliate Professor in Berkeley Social Welfare, is a recipient of the 2020 Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions from the American Psychological Association, its highest award for basic research

Assistant professor Erin Kerrison was selected for a Graduate Assembly Faculty Mentor Award for “exemplify[ing] the values and best practices of effective mentoring that are core to our university community.” And with support from doctoral students Brita Bookser and Doug Epps, Kerrison introduced their project, “Arts in Corrections Needs Assessment” to an array of stakeholders at the Arts in Corrections: Reframing the Landscape of Justice Conference in June 2019.

Professor Kurt C. Organista was invited to present at Yonsei University’s School of Social Welfare in Korea in June, then presented his research on risk-taking behaviors among day laborers at the 12th Annual Health Disparities conference in Oakland. In July, he presented at the Summer Institute on Migration and Global Health on the Berkeley campus. In November, he presented on “Latinx Leadership, Service, and Scholarship” at Palo Alto University.

Assistant Professor Tina Sacks’s book, Invisible Visits: Black Middle-Class Women in the American Healthcare System (Oxford University Press), received an honorable mention for the SSWR’s 2020 Outstanding Social Work Book Award. Sacks presented the

following presentations at SSWR 2020: Brief and Brilliant: Invisible visits: How race and gender affect healthcare; Invited Symposium: Social Work’s Response to Anti-Semitism; Thriving and Black: How to Thrive as a Black Woman in the Academy. Sacks also published the following papers with co-authors: “Racial Non-equivalence of Socioeconomic Status and Self-rated Health among African Americans and Whites” in Social Science and Medicine Population Health and “The price of the ticket: Health costs of upward mobility among African Americans” in International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. Lastly, along with colleague Darrel Hudson, Sacks received the Russell Sage Foundation Pipeline Grant for a project entitled Gold Does Not Always Glitter: Does Upward Social Mobility Undermine the Health of African Americans?

Professor of the Graduate School Steven Segal presented at the Università di Roma “Sapienza”, in Rome, at La Trobe University in Bundoora, Australia, at the University of Melbourne, at Yonsei University at Seoul, Korea, and at the SSWR conference in Washington DC. Associate professor Valerie Shapiro was named a William T. Grant Foundation Scholar, one of five early-career faculty to receive the national award this year. This prestigious program supports career development for promising early-career faculty, and awards are based on applicants’ potential to become influential researchers.

Shapiro will receive $350,000 in funding over the next five years in support of her research initiative, “Leveraging Research Evidence to Improve Social and Emotional Learning Delivery Systems.” She has also been granted a secondary faculty appointment with the School of Public Health and been appointed to the Chancellor’s Advisory Committee on Work and Family (CACWF).

In September, Professor Jennifer Skeem spoke on the role of mental illness in mass shootings in the U.S. Senate Office Building, as part of a Congressional Briefing on Countering Mass Shootings in the United States, organized by the Center for EvidenceBased Crime Policy. In August and September, Skeem served on advisory boards for the U.S. Administrative Office of the Courts (on Pretrial Risk Assessment) and the U.S. Bureau of Prisons (on implementation of the 2018 First Step Act). Both events represent federal criminal justice reform efforts. She also delivered an award keynote address on race, risk, and recidivism at the annual meeting of the International Community Corrections Association.

Professor Susan Stone and affiliated faculty member Emily Ozer, in partnership with the San Francisco Unified School District, received one of three William T. Grant Institutional Challenge Grants awarded nationwide. The highly competitive Institutional Challenge Grant program encourages university-based research institutes, schools, and centers to build sustained research-practice partnerships with public agencies or nonprofit organizations. It provides $650,000 in funding over three years.

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Professor Stone was inducted into the American Academy of Social Work and Social Welfare (AASWSW) during the SSWR conference in Washington, DC.

FIELD CONSULTANT NOTES Luna Calderon completed the One Year Narrative Therapy Certification through the Dulwich Center in Adelaide, Australia.

Christina Feliciana delivered the keynote address at Pact Adopt Family Camp Conference in July, titled “When Adoption Is Not Child Centered: Advocating for Ethics, Reform and Justice in Adoption.” She also served on the event planning committee for the 2019 San Francisco Bay Area Indian Child Welfare Act Symposium.

In January, Patti Park, lecturer, and Jennifer Jackson, lecturer and field faculty, participated in a three-day conference in Los Angeles conducted by the National Child Traumatic Stress Network.

POSTDOCTORAL NOTES Caroline Figueroa published an op-ed in the San Francisco Chronicle, “The time for a digital mental health revolution is here,” as well as a blog post for the dLab website, “The surprising role of digital technology during the COVID-19 pandemic.”

Lucia M. Lanfranconi holds a grant from the Swiss National Science Foundation to carry out her research project “Social Equity in California’s Welfare-to-Work Program – State, County, FrontlineWorkers’ and Clients’ perspective.”

STUDENT NOTES: PhD Brita Bookser was named a 2019-2020 Fellow at the Center for Cities+Schools at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Education.

She will work with Sacramento City Unified School District to study initiatives focused on youth college/career pipelines. During Fall 2019, Brita was an independent research consultant for KQED Public Radio of Northern California where she works with the Education team to study classroom implementation of an online learning platform intended to support media literacy and civic engagement among youth across the U.S. Mayra Cazares published an article in Child Welfare titled “Identifying Strategic Entry Points for Services among Transitionaged Mothers who are Homeless.” She also received the CAPSAC Paul Crissey Graduate Student Research Award in January 2020 and the SURF-SMART Research Fellowship & Mentorship Award for Summer 2020.

Jaclyn Chambers has been awarded a prestigious National Institute of Justice Dissertation Fellowship.

STUDENT NOTES: MSW

Maggie Downey accepted a position of assistant professor at Tulane University; her dissertation is entitled “Bringing Health to Life: An Institutional Ethnography of the Social Determinants of Health and the Life Course Perspective in Maternal and Child Health.”

Brandon Allen has written a children’s book, The Very Lonely Boy.

Cristina Gomez-Vidal and Brenda Mathias were named Outstanding GSIs by the GSI Teaching and Resource Center.

Walter Gómez co-authored a paper, “Randomized controlled trial of a positive affect intervention to reduce HIV viral load among sexual minority men who use methamphetamine” The Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity at the UC Berkeley School of Information has awarded seed funds to Laura GomezPathak to conduct a pilot research study to understand vulnerable patients’ perspectives on data privacy as it pertains to mHealth interventions.

PhD student Joshua R. Gregory published an article, “Social Work as a Product and Project of Whiteness, 1607–1900,” in the Journal of Progressive Human Services as well as an article titled “Whiteness and School Shootings: Theorization Toward a More Critical School Social Work,” forthcoming in Children & Schools.

Ivy Hammond’s research was published in the International Journal of Human Rights in Healthcare. Titled “A transgender girl’s experience: sexual exploitation and systems involvement,” the paper was co-authored by researchers at UCLA’s Jane and Terry Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior. She also co-authored a paper published in Academic Pediatrics entitled “Pregnancy outcomes among girls impacted by commercial sexual exploitation.”

G. Allen Ratliffe’s sole author manuscript ”Social Work, Place, and Power: Applying Heterotopian Principles to the Social Topology of Social Work” was accepted to the Social Service Review special issue “Lessons from Social Work’s History for a Tumultuous Era.” Katie Savin presented a paper titled “Disabled and Poor in the Bay Area: How SSI and SSDI Beneficiaries Work around and within Current Labor Incentive Programs” at the Society for the Study of Social Problems Annual Meeting in NYC. Last August, Savin gave an invited talk at the Hastings Center entitled, “Theorizing the relationship between marginalized communities and end-of-life care.” Savin was invited to join the interdisciplinary expert Work Group for the Hastings Center’s two-year, grant-funded project on “Dementia and the Ethics of Choosing When to Die.” In April, Savin and co-author Laura Guidry-Grimes published an article on the Hastings Center website about how ableist assumptions may influence access to care during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Kelly Ziemer was selected as an Alcohol Research Group NIAAA Pre-doctoral Fellow.

Rebekah Gong is one of four awardees in 2020 for the Jim Fahey Safe Homes for Women award.

Matthew Smith helped bring VA healthcare to the UC Berkeley campus. (See article p. 24 for details.)

STUDENT NOTES: BASW Undergraduates Serran Lewis and Leilani Chanice Brown went to Washington DC in June to lobby Congress on a range of issues relating to foster care.

CENTER NOTES On February 6 and 7, the Latinx Center of Excellence offered a two-day Solution-Focused Brief Therapy training in Spanish, led by Training Consultant for the LCOE and Lecturer Luna Calderon. Solution-Focused Brief Therapy supports client self-efficacy and empowerment by validating and honoring clients’ knowledge, expertise, and beliefs. The event was completely sold out, demonstrating the need for culturally relevant trainings.

Risk Resilience: In August, Associate Director Dr. Sharon Farrell presented the preliminary results of a large randomized trial at the annual convention of the American Psychological Association.

Preliminary results indicate that at one site, a cognitive behavioral program that focuses on general risk factors for recidivism adds value to psychiatric treatment, in reducing re-arrest rates among justice-involved people with mental illness. Dr. Farrell and MaryLynn Garrett presented the intervention at the annual meeting of the American Probation and Parole Association.

HONOR ROLL

The Honor Roll lists donors who contributed to Berkeley Social Welfare From March 15, 2019 through March 15, 2020.

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.

$5,000+ Gail Bigelow MSW ‘87 and Eileen Gambrill Cynthia Bisman Lillian Cape MSW ‘72 Lynn Jones Crook BA ‘68, C.Esing ‘69 and Christopher Crook BA ‘68, JD ‘71 Harry Gin BA ‘70, MSW ‘72 and Ann Gin Art Hom BA ‘69, MSW ‘72 and Edna Hom Catherine Hutto Gordon BA ‘73 and Daniel Baker Kristen Ikenberg and Daniel Ikenberg Leona Wong Miu BA ‘54 Toni Rock and Arthur Rock

$1,000-$4,999 Linda Burton Diana Dea Crook BA ‘70 and Peter Crook BA ‘70 Roger Daniels MSW ‘95 and Gregory Merrill Kathleen Day-Seiter MSW ‘86 and Thomas Seiter Marissa Kalan Gillette BA ‘03 and Matthew Gillette BS ‘03 Mary Ann Hamamura-Clark BA ‘68 and William Clark Cynthia Hecker C.EPP ‘05, MSW ‘05 and Peter Hecker JD ‘73 Ralph Hurtado MSW ‘68 David Kears BA ‘68, MSW ‘70 and Muriel Kears Ralph Kramer BA ‘42, Cred/Cert ‘43, MSW ‘46, DSW ‘64 Seymour Lapporte Jacques Laufer JD ‘80 and Cathleen Laufer Claire Levay-Young BA ‘81 and Brett Levay-Young PhD ‘87 Laura Liesem MSW ‘09 Mary Ann Mason and Paul Ekman Barbara McCann BA ‘74 Ransford McCourt MS ‘79 and Kathy McCourt Abigail Nichols DSW ‘77 Catharine Ralph Cred/Cert ‘77, MSW ‘77 and Norbert Ralph BA ‘69, MPH ‘80

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Ramon Rodriguez MSW ‘84 Jessica Romm BA ‘65 Luis Shein MA ‘72 and Miriam Shein William Shryer MSW ‘79 and Susan Shryer Gail Splaver MPH ‘80, DSW ‘84 Susan Jennings Stangeland BA ‘62, MSW ‘68 and Bruce Stangeland PhD ‘67 Susan Chu Sung BA ‘69, MSW ‘72, DSW ‘77 and Oscar Sung BS ’69, MCP ‘72 Anne Wilson MSW ‘79 and Richard Cohn Beclee Newcomer Wilson MSW ‘90 and John Wilson Lina Woo BA ‘79 Christine Yap BA ‘87 and Roop Singh Lehra

$500-999 Anonymous (1) Lucy Ascoli MSW ‘72 and Peter Ascoli PhD ‘71 Susan Austin BA ‘64 and Michael Austin BA ‘64, MSW ‘66 Anne Benker BA ‘05 and George Benker MSW ‘89 Madeline Burnell MSW ‘84 and A. John Burnell Janelle Cavanagh MSW ‘96 and Dominic Walshe Cynthia Nunes Colbert MSW ‘83 Leslee Feinstein BA ‘71 and Wayne Feinstein Norma Fong BA ‘75, MSW ‘79 Ernest Hirose MSW ‘59 and Sylvia Hirose Louis Labat MSW ‘72 Carrie Graham Lee MSW ‘96, MPH ‘97 and John Lee BA ‘90 Joyce Lewis MSW ‘67 Anna Lynch MSW ‘16 Ruth McFarlane MSW ‘13 and Elisa Durrette Pamela Organista and Kurt Organista Suraj Patel BA ‘08, BS ‘08, MBA ‘16, MPH ‘16 Mary Pittman MPH ‘80, DPH. ‘87, MCP ‘87 and David Lindeman MSW ‘80, DSW ‘87

SOCIAL WELFARE AT BERKELEY HONOR ROLL OF DONORS

Eric Schlenker and Shelly Schlenker Susan Stone Christine Velez C.EPP ‘16, MSW ‘16 Gregory Wilson BA ‘86, MSW ‘89

$100-499 Anonymous (1) Remia Adams MSW ‘80 Josias Aguiar MSW ‘15 Jean Ahn MA ‘92, MA ‘94 and Jonathan Han BA ‘90 Veronica Alexander and Cedric Alexander Nicole Somorjai Alivisatos BA ‘86 and Armand Alivisatos PhD ‘86 Annalee Allen and Zan Turner Renee Allison MSW ‘79 Reymundo Anthony MSW ‘92 George Applegarth BA ‘75, MSW ‘77 and Robin Applegarth Evelyn Apte BA ‘51, MSW ‘56 Radomir Avila MSW ‘13 Uri Aviram DSW ‘72 and Eran Aviram Noreen Axelson BA ‘80 and Donald Archer Jennifer Baha MSW ‘86 and Mohammad Baha Steven Baisch BA ‘83 Stephen Banuelos MSW ‘79 Marilyn Shuman Barnett BA ‘69 and James Barnett BS ‘68, MBA ‘69 Constance Battisti BA ‘79, MSW ‘85 Erica Baum BA ‘74, MSW ‘77, DSW ‘85 Joan Baylie BA ‘72, Cred/Cert ‘78, MSW ‘78 and James Mullins MSW ‘79

Gary Bennett JD ‘79, MSW ‘79 and Alyssa Bennett Bradley Bento BA ‘76 and Kathleen Bento Margaret Berendsen BA ‘73 Michele Bernal BA ‘77 Jill Duerr Berrick MSW ‘87, PhD ‘90 and Kenneth Berrick Cheryl Baker Bibelheimer MSW ‘90 and Gerald Bibelheimer Arlene Boyd BA ‘87 Iris Brooks MSW ‘70 David Brown C.EPP ‘07, MSW ‘07 and Annette Brown

John Brown Jr. BA ‘73, MSW ‘85 Sarah Brown C.EPP ‘83, MSW ‘83, PhD ‘95 Angela Burk-Herrick and Scott Herrick Frank Bush MSW ‘79 and Renee Bush Atheena Cabiness MSW ‘13 Maximiliano Camarillo MSW ‘71 and Patricia Camarillo Linda Castaldi MSW ‘73 Carole Chamberlain MSW ‘79 Jesus Chavez-Duarte BA ‘13 Beatrice Chavez MSW ‘79 Sueh Yin Cheng and Boon Long Cheong Nancy Lee Chong BA ‘62 and Wallace Chong Jr. Heidi Chu BA ‘04 Willy Chung BS ‘96 Tom Clancy MSW ‘84 and Juliet Clancy Derrick Collins BA ‘93 and Judith Collins Jill Cooper MSW ‘87 Barbara Bradner Cornet BA ‘67, MSW ‘85, MPH ‘86 J. Corporon BA ‘93 and Josie Corporon Connie Murphy Craig MSW ‘85 and David Craig BA ‘81 Stephanie Cuccaro-Alamin PhD ‘05 James Cunniff MSW ‘95 Margit David BA ‘68, MSW ‘76 Rosemary Delgado MSW ‘80 Freny Dessai MSW ‘08 Lolita Gordon Doppelt-Dixon MSW ‘68 Krista Drescher-Burke PhD ‘08 Andrea Dubrow BA ‘93, MSW ‘98, MPH ‘99

and Paul Buddenhagen MSW ‘98 Diane Fitzgibbon Dugard MSW ‘91 and Thomas Dugard Karen Eagan BA ‘63, MSW ‘65 Geraldine Gillette Earp MSW ‘73 Satomi Fujinaga Edelhofer MSW ‘69 and Ferdinand Edelhofer Susan Edwards MLS ‘91 Gregory Erickson MSW ‘05 Markus Exel Judith Feiner MSW ‘66 and Donald Feiner Nancy Fey BA ‘68, MSW ‘76 Lissette Flores BA ‘95 and Jonathan Knapp BA ‘95, JD ‘08 Lillian Fong BA ‘79, MSW ‘84 and Stewart Fong BA ‘76, MPH ‘77

Matthew Fong BA ‘48, MSW ‘67 and Yee-Ling Fong Wilmer Fong BA ‘49 Stephen Forkins MSW ‘94 and Suzanne MacDonald Gwendolyn Foster Risa Brody Foster BA ‘68, MSW ‘72 and John Foster BS ‘66 Karie Frasch MSW ‘98, PhD ‘01 Elizabeth Freitas MSW ‘86 Nadezhda Frenkel MSW ‘12 Catherine Geanuracos MSW ‘98 Sarah Gilman MSW ‘12 Rachelle Goldenberg MSW ‘02 Josephine Gonzalez BA ‘70, MSW ‘73, JD ‘75

Paola Gonzalez BA ‘15 Steven Gothelf MSW ‘79 and Donna Gothelf Dorothy Graham MSW ‘74, MPH ‘79 Sherri Grechis and James Grechis Janice Glesser Green BA ‘62 and Robert Green Maureen Grinnell MSW ‘64 Samta Gupta and Vikas Gupta Janet Gusukuma MA ‘76 and Neil Hamilton III MBA ‘76 Monique Hamilton BA ‘10, MSW ‘14 Meekyung Han PhD ‘04 Tal Harari MSW ‘76, DSW ‘80 Charles Haseltine MSW ‘92 Virginia Hernandez Marjorie Heumann MSW ‘72 Ruth Hirano MSW ‘62 Helene Hoenig MSW ‘03, C.EPP ‘07 David Hollands MSW ‘73 and Maria Hollands Julie Hooper and Robert Hooper Kazumi Hoshino Lisa Huet MSW ‘00 Helen Hui MSW ‘70 and Gordon Lin Mary Sue Ittner MSW ‘68 and Robert Rutemoeller Susan Jamart BA ‘74, MA ‘78 Kathleen Jones-West BA ‘00, MSW ‘02 Terry Jones MSW ‘71, DSW ‘74 and Sharon Richardson-Jones Linda Jue Michael Kaku BA ‘76 and Ladonna Yumori-Kaku Mary Ann Kassier BA ‘77, MSW ‘80 and Charles Kassier Mimi Kim PhD ‘14 Sylvia Kohn-Rich and Eran Rich Mary Kunz-Nakanishi BA ‘81, MSW ‘89 and David Nakanishi MPH ‘91, MSW ‘91 Cristian Lambaren Sanchez BA ‘16 Karen Lassen BA ‘62, C.Mult. ‘64 Arthur Lathan MSW ‘72 and Dorothy Lathan Peter Lee BA ‘89, MSW ‘92, PhD ‘98 Rufina Lee MSW ‘97 and David Reiss

Judith Lelchook-Lohman MSW ‘80 and Joseph Lohman III Deanna Kong Leong BA ‘65 and James Leong BS ‘66 Henry Lerner MA ‘72, JD ‘77 Caitlyn Lim BA ‘17 Cynthia Lim MSW ‘81 and Perry Landsberg Sarah Barr Llewellyn BA ‘67 and Thomas Llewellyn Anna Loscutoff BA ‘07 and Paul Loscutoff BS ‘04 James Lubben MPH ‘81, DSW ‘84 and Maureen Lubben Diana Lynch MSW ‘69 Valerie Macy-Hurley MSW ‘03 and Ryan Macy-Hurley MSW ‘05 Jeffrey Mashburn MSW ‘15 Nancy Masters MPH ‘86, MSW ‘87 and Paul Cohen Ruth McCanless BA ‘48 Lisa McDonald MSW ‘14 Devan McFadden BA ‘14 Megan McQuaid MSW ‘06 Kathleen Mendoza BA ‘10 Joseph Merighi MSW ‘91, PhD ‘96 Christina Miyawaki MSW ‘08 Miguel Montiel DSW ‘74 and Yvonne Montiel Catharine Moran BA ‘52 and Everett Moran Eleanor Moses MSW ‘97 Robert Muntz MSW ‘73 Randall Myers MSW ‘85 and Shirley Myers Violet Nakayama MSW ‘71 Molly Yim Nicholls MSW ‘74 and Carl Nicholls Teresa O’Connor MSW ‘02 Greta Oducayen BA ‘74 and Rafael Ongkeko JD ‘78 Koji Oka BA ‘02 Dorothy Papo BA ‘65, MSW ‘68 and Michael Papo BA ‘66, MSW ‘68 Loraine Park BA ‘96, C.EPP ‘05, MSW ‘05 and Gerald Tsai BS ‘96 Dahna Pasternak JD ‘95, Patricia Paul Arthur Paull MSW ‘69 and Susan Ten Bosch William Pavao BA ‘79, MSW ‘82 and Cathy Creswell Jon Pettigrew MSW ‘96 Veronica Piper-Jefferson MSW ‘95 Richard Ponce MSW ‘73 and Carmen Ponce Judith Potter BA ‘69, MSW ‘72 and Gerald Potter Jocelyn Pou MSW ‘83 and Walter Bankovitch

Maria Quintanilla MSW ‘89 Janet Quirico and Steve Quirico Donna Rabin BA ‘68 Jose Ramirez Jr. BA ‘98 Ingrid Rauch and Victor Rauch

Karyn Reader MSW ‘75 Leah Reider MSW ‘71 Linda Remy MSW ‘77, DSW ‘80 Valerie Reuss Cred/Cert ‘77, MSW ‘77 and Stefan Reuss Suzanne Rivera MSW ‘93 and Michael Householder Deborah Rosenberg MSW ‘59 Sarah Rowen MSW ‘86, C.EPP ‘87 and Lawrence Rowen Myrna Rudman MSW ‘67 and Gary Ziegenfuss Raquel Ruiz Cred/Cert ‘78, MSW ‘78 and Stephen Haber Peter Sardelich MSW ‘75 Ilene Conison Scharlach BA ‘71, MA ‘73, C.EPP ‘74, PhD ‘79 and Andrew Scharlach BA ‘72 Theresa Schrider MSW ‘89 Carolyn Schwarz C.EPP ‘97, MSW ‘97 Gay Searcy BA ‘72 and Peter Langhoff BA ‘63, MSW ‘77 Suzanne Shenfil MSW ‘75 Henry Shoane BA ‘76 and Delfina Shoane Brian Simmons BA ‘76, MSW ‘81, PhD ‘97 and Melva Simmons C. Victoria Simonds BA ‘78 and Thomas Scharffenberger BA ‘76 Alison Yip Skubic BA ‘82 and Michael Skubic BA ‘81 Michael Slessarev BA ‘82, MBA ‘94 Annette Smith MSW ‘64 Rudolph Smith MSW ‘66 and Gayle Smith Vikki Smyth and Robert Smyth Irene Solis Laurie Soman MSW ‘81 Sylvia Soos MSW ‘66 Michelle Spanier Allison Sparks MSW ‘07 Jacquelyn Stanley MSW ‘75, DSW ‘82 and Kudret Oztap MBA ‘75 Mary Alice Stevenson MSW ‘72 and Walter Stevenson BA ‘64 Marla Stuart PhD ‘17 and Peter Stuart Karen Sullivan MSW ‘82, P ‘10 and Mark Provda Michael Suzuki BA ‘81 Mariko Sweetnam MPH ‘13, MSW ‘13 Lia Swindle Maria Talbott MSW ‘80, DS ‘86 Judy Tam BA ‘95 and David Lee BA ‘95 Marianne Zerweck Tanner BA ‘56 Robert Teague Grace Telcs MSW ‘05 and Scott Siera PhD ‘08, JD ‘11 Alison Thomas BA ‘85 Maxine Tucker BA ‘60, MSW ‘62 and Kenneth Tucker BS ‘56, MS ‘58

Aileen Uchida BA ‘79 Andrew Ulvang MSW ‘86 Faranak Ghaffari Van Patten MSW ‘60 Ana Veas BA ‘15, C.EPP ‘17, MSW ‘17 Charles Vincent MSW ‘82 Heidi Wagner Andrew Wallach Sandra Wexler PhD ‘89, MSW ‘91 Dewey Willis MSW ‘67 Allan Wood MSW ‘89 Beth Wrightson MSW ‘94 Ellen Yasumura MSW ‘80 and Kent Young Phillip Yim BA ‘01 Harriet Yurchak BA ‘59 and Edward Yurchak BA ‘61 Charlotte Zilversmit MSW ‘58 Allison Zippay MSW ‘83, DSW ‘89 Maria Zuniga MSW ‘70

up to $99 Brenda Aburto-Olivares BA ‘17 Hazel Ahumada BA ‘14 Nkiru Ajaelo MSW ‘16 Christine Alcantara BA ‘96 Joan Spencer Alderson BA ‘53, MSW ‘55 Jean Allgeyer MSW ‘51 Kathleen Archibald MSW ‘77 Catherine Arevalo BA ‘17 Rodrigo Avila MSW ‘17 Allison Bakamjian MPH ‘19, MSW ‘19 Ronna Charissa Bañada-Zee C.EPP ‘08, MSW ‘08 Ben-David Barr PhD ‘11 Anthony Barreiro MSW ‘94 Evelyn Bharucha MSW ‘55 and Behram Bharucha BS ‘55, MS ‘58, PhD ‘61 Nancy Brigham Blattel BA ‘77 and Kevin Blattel BA ‘74, MBA ‘03 Ian Bleakney Ava Blustein MSW ‘18 Nell Bly C.EPP ‘77, MSW ‘77 Shannon Bode BA ‘00 Carol Bohnsack MSW ‘67 Ann Brady BA ‘82 Heather Brankman C.EPP ‘00, MSW ‘00 and Charles Brankman Margot Broaddus MSW ‘05 Ruth Brunings MSW ‘62 Lillie Butler BA ‘77 Kayla Cai BA ‘17 Christopher Cajski Ann Cameron-Ajari MSW ‘84 Sarah Carnochan JD ‘88, MSW ‘97, PhD ‘04 Carrie Carter BA ‘82, C.EPP ‘88, MSW ‘88 Lolita Castillo MSW ‘01 Susannah Champlin BA ‘16 Romiel Chand BA ‘14 Lynne Charlot-Iversen MSW ‘92 Brian Cheung MSW ‘18 Ben Chin BA ‘60 and Nancy Chin Kay Young Choi MSW ‘80 and Bong Choi

honor roll

up to $99 Sasha Clayton C.EPP ‘05, MSW ‘05 Barbara Clevenger MSW ‘77 Lindsey Cochran MSW ‘17 Nancy Colvin MSW ‘89 Barbara Byrd Cullinane MSW ‘78 and Patrick Cullinane Amy D’Andrade BA ‘87, MSW ‘99, PhD ‘04

Maxwell Davis Renee Dawson MSW ‘72 Diane De Anda MSW ‘72 and Donald Fast Dolores Decarli BA ‘57 Maile Del Buono Terry Delonas Shantelle Despabiladeras BA ‘12, MSW ‘17

Lisa Dipko MSW ‘00 Jana Dodoo BA ‘05 and Nii Dodoo Laura Ducharme BA ‘99 Shanta Eastman MSW ‘02 Carole Eckmayer and Timothy Eckmayer Kathianne Selindh English Cred/Cert ‘78, MSW ‘78 and James English MSW ‘78 Jacqueline London Ensign BA ‘53, MSW ‘56 Lynn Friss Feinberg MSW ‘78 David Feldstein BA ‘58 Christina Feliciana C.EPP ‘97, MSW ‘97 and Chris Chan Darlene Fermin BA ‘18 Paula Flamm BA ‘75, MSW ‘80 and Ernest Dietze Cheuk Hang Fok BA ‘19 Katherine Forand C.EPP ‘98, MSW ‘98 and Benjamin Potter Bellamy Ford BA ‘16 Martha Frank BA ‘67, MSW ‘70 Zoe Fried BA ‘07 Katharine Nadai Friend MSW ‘85 and Robert Friend MSW ‘85, C.EPP ‘88 Gabrielle Fuchs MSW ‘68 Anne Geiger MSW ‘04, MPP ‘07 Shaaron Gilson Mary-Lee Goodrich MSW ‘84 Karen Degroot Gordon BA ‘68, MSW ‘70 and Harold Gordon Gloria Gonzales Grace MSW ‘70, MPH ‘77 Nancy Grover BA ‘76, MSW ‘82 Shiheng Guan BA ‘19 Katherine Hanway

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Barbara Hedani-Morishita BA ‘72, MSW ‘74 and Leroy Morishita BA ‘74 Joslin Kimball Herberich MSW ‘95 Jessica Hernandez MSW ‘18 Carol Highland-Fritz MSW ‘88 and Larry Fritz Mai-Mai Quon Ho BA ‘66, MSW ‘68 and Felix Shu-Kie Ho BS ‘71 Asher Hodes JD ‘12 Dana Hodge BA ‘92 Kim Hoffman BA ‘82, MSW ‘87 Frances Hornstein MSW ‘96 Lucy Hsu BA ‘03 and Baldwin Hsu Jerry Inglis BA ‘47 Stephen Irwin BA ‘19 Celia Jackson MSW ‘76 Susan Jacquet Yashu Jiang MSW ‘13 Elizabeth Brown Kaplan MSW ‘73 Erin Kelley BA ‘00 Sylvia King BA ‘66 and Stephen Woolpert Martha Kisshauer BA ‘84 and Eric Kisshauer BA ‘75 Kim Klein and Stephanie Roth Mashariki Kudumu BA ‘93 David Kuhns MSW ‘62 and Florence Kuhns Ellen Kushin MPH ‘79 and Frank Kushin Yulanda Kwong BA ‘98, MSW ‘03 Evelyn La Torre MSW ‘70 Roylinda LeDuff MSW ‘91 Kiara Lee MSW ‘96 Megan Lehmer MSW ‘71 Katherine Knecht Lerner BA ‘80, MSW ‘84 and David Lerner Judith Levin BA ‘77 and Barry Epstein BS ‘78 Catherine Lewis BA ‘06, C.EPP ‘12, MPH’12, MSW ‘12 Jennifer Lewis MSW ‘11 Nancy Littlefield Cred/Cert ‘81, MSW ‘81 and Walter Earnest MSW ‘82 Carlene MacDonald MSW ‘94 Elissa Magno-Jardinico BA ‘08 Kari Malkki Michael Marchant MSW ‘00 and Eden Marchant Lotte Lustig Marcus BA ‘54 and Alan Marcus Jessica Martin Gonzalez BA ‘14 Cynthia Martin MSW ‘82

SOCIAL WELFARE AT BERKELEY HONOR ROLL OF DONORS

Amy Mass BA ‘56 and Howard Mass BA ‘50, MA ‘51 Talia McClure-Moore BA ‘03 Brian McGhee BA ‘91 and Relonda McGhee Summer Medina BA ‘96, MSW ‘03 Nita Mehta BA ‘81 and Anil Thayamballi MS ‘79, PhD ‘83 Patricia Melenudo MSW ‘88 Kezia Miller and James Altuner Jennifer Monahan BA ‘93, MA ‘94, PhD ‘00 Evelyn Monson BA ‘58 and Raymond Monson Richard Montantes MSW ‘95 Martha Morales BA ‘94 and Juan Morales Emiko Moran Marta Morataya Hiram Moy MBA ‘05 Nicole Muller MSW ‘08 Sylvia Munoz BA ‘06 Judy Nakaso BA ‘77 Lorena Naseyowma MSW ‘83 Carol Nealy Thabani Nyoni MSW ‘16 Julee Ogawa MSW ‘90 Nancy Olivier BA ‘91, MSW ‘96 Evelyn Owens MSW ‘70 Juliet Pappas MSW ‘01 and John Pappas MSW ‘01 Juliet Pappas Ruth Paris PhD ‘98 John Penton Jr. BA ‘97 Kathleen Perez MSW ‘71 and Richard Perez Veronica Perez MSW ‘07 Gloria Perry BA ‘56 Andy Peterson Linda Carter Pettersen BA ‘64, MSW ‘66 and Roger Pettersen MS ‘64, PhD ‘66 Melissa Portal Sarah Porzucki MSW ‘15 Laura Pullen MSW ‘08 Jonathan Ramos-Santiago Charlotte Ranallo MSW ‘73 Rand Randy MSW ‘71 Erich Roberts C.EPP ‘15, MSW ‘15 Sarai Rodriguez BA ‘16 Dennis Romano MSW ‘80 Burt Romotsky MSW ‘81 Juliet Rothman

Jasmine Salonga BA ‘19 Sara Saltzman BA ‘96, MSW ‘04 Rocio Sanchez BA ‘11 Susan Sanders MSW ‘82 Drina Gale Sarsoza BA ‘13 Jonathan Schiesel BA ‘69 Colene Sawyer Schlaepfer BA ‘52 Elaine Schneider MSW ‘71 and Thomas Schneider Stephanie Segal MSW ‘13 Sandra Seidlitz MSW ‘80 and David Orenstein Valerie Shapiro Judith Shepherd MSW ‘75, DSW ‘80 Chelsea Simms MSW ‘16 Alana Snyder BA ‘15 Mary Solis Cred/Cert ‘81, MSW ‘81 Srinivasan Subramanian BA ‘99 Mildred Swafford BS ‘69, MSW ‘73 and Floyd Swafford Anne Takizawa BA ‘81 Suzanne Thompson BA ‘90, MSW ‘95 Beverly Thorpe Ngan Tran BS ‘01 Elsa Tranter and Revan Tranter Doris Treisman MSW ‘68 Nadia Tsado BA ‘15 Chelsea Tuomi BA ‘14, MSW ‘18 Tran Tuyet MSW ‘88 Grant Ute MSW ‘72 and Janice Cantu Elbert Vickland MSW ‘63 Cecilia Villalobos BA ‘18 Mayra Villalta BA ‘06 JoAnn Walcott MSW ‘67 and William Walcott Jr. Leona Wallace BA ‘72 Constance Weisner DPH. ‘87 and Stanley Weisner DSW ‘76 Susan Werner MSW ‘87 Wendy Wiegmann BA ‘02, MSW ‘07, PhD ‘16 Alice Wilkins MSW ‘79 Amari Williams MSW ‘19 Jordan Wilson Marcia Wilson BA ‘68 and Don Wilson BS ‘67 Helene Winkler BA ‘67 Jane Sperling Wise MSW ‘02 James Wogan C.EPP ‘01, MSW ‘01 John Wu

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 2020.

$1,000,000+

$10,000 to $24,999

Marguerite Leach Johnson BA ‘60 and S. Allan Johnson BS ‘59, MBA ‘69, Catherine Hutto Gordon BA ‘73 and Daniel Baker Beclee Newcomer Wilson MSW ‘90 and John Wilson

Anne-Therese Ageson BA ‘67 and John Hadreas BA ‘77 Michael Austin BA ‘64, MSW ‘66 Richard Barth MSW ‘79, DSW ‘82 and Nancy Dickinson Jill Duerr Berrick MSW ‘87, PhD ‘90 and Kenneth Berrick Robert and Mary Catherine Birgeneau Stephen Blum MA ‘69, PhD ‘73 and Lorraine Midanik Venetta A. Campbell BA ‘78, MSW ‘80 and Antonio Campbell BA ‘82 Lillian Cape MSW ‘72 Jeffrey Edleson BA ‘74 and Sudha Shetty 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 Kitty Ho and Julian Chow Patricia Levy BA ‘52 Linda Liesem and Paul Liesem Kent Macdonald BA ‘75, M.Arch. ‘83 Aron Murai BS ‘57 Abigail Nichols DSW ‘77 Luella Noles and Jeung Hyun Phyllis Johnson O’Shea BA ‘49 Catharine Ralph Cred/Cert ‘77, MSW ‘77 and Norbert Ralph BA ‘69, MPH ‘80 Ilene Conison Scharlach BA ‘71, MA ‘73, C.EPP ‘74, PhD ‘79 and Andrew Scharlach BA ‘72 Irene Solis Eliot Specht BA ‘81 Susan Jennings Stangeland BA ‘62, MSW ‘68 and Bruce Stangeland PhD ‘67 Nadine Tang MSW ‘75 and Bruce Smith BA ‘68 Patricia Patterson Williams BA ‘66, MSW ‘93 and Raymond Williams BS ‘66

$100,000 to $999,999 Jeanette Close-Cibull BA ‘54, MSW ‘69 and Robert M. Cibull BS ‘54, M.Opt. ‘57 Phyllis Koshland Friedman BA ‘44, MSW ‘71 Harry Gin BA ‘70, MSW ‘72 and Ann Gin Kristen Ikenberg and Daniel Ikenberg Diane Scarritt MSW ‘73 Mildred Sheehan Tony Tripodi BA ‘54, MSW ‘58 William Zellerbach

$25,000 to $99,999 Jean Allgeyer MSW ‘51 Sandra Auerback BA ‘67 Gail Bigelow MSW ‘87 and Eileen Gambrill Barbara Bradner Cornet BA ‘67, MSW ‘85, MPH ‘86 Diana Dea Crook BA ‘70 and Peter Crook BA ‘70 Lynn Jones Crook BA ‘68, C.Esing ‘69 and Christopher Crook BA ‘68, JD ‘71 Shaaron Gilson Art Hom BA ‘69, MSW ‘72 and Edna Hom Ralph Kramer BA ‘42, Cred/Cert ‘43, MSW ‘46, DSW ‘64 Gyongy Laky BA ‘70, MA ‘71 and Thomas Layton Mary Ann Mason and Paul Ekman Khadija Midgley and James Midgley Leona Wong Miu BA ‘54 Jonathan Pannor BA ‘84, MSW ‘87 Toni Rock and Arthur Rock Alan Sherman MA ‘85, MSW ‘90 and Kimberly Sherman Kathryn Stenberg Renee Winge MSW ‘85

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

GIVING at a GLANCE total giving:

$1,010,730

502 119 number of gifts

number of new donors

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BERKELEY

Celebrating women’s leadership at Berkeley Social Welfare

Dr. Jessica Blanche Peixotto

Dr. Emily Noble Plehn

Dr. Jewelle Taylor Gibbs

Jessica Peixotto, who founded the program in Social Economics that would later evolve into the School of Social Welfare, was the second woman to receive a doctorate from UC Berkeley and the first woman to achieve the rank of full professor at UC Berkeley in 1918. She was also a member of the State Board of Charities and Corrections from 1912 through 1924 and served with the Council of National Defense as Executive Chairman of the Committee on Child Welfare of the Women’s Committee and as Chief of the Child Conservation Section during WWI.

Emily Noble Plehn served as associate professor of Social Economics from 1921 until 1932. The first practice work supervisor in the social service curriculum, she became Field director in 1926.

Professor emerita Jewelle Taylor Gibbs received her MSW at Berkeley in 1970, then completed a PhD in psychology before joining the Berkeley Social Welfare faculty in 1979 and quickly becoming known for her groundbreaking work on the mental health of children of color. In 1993 she became the first African American to be awarded a named chair in the UC system. As co-chair of UC Berkeley Committee on the Status of Women and Ethnic Minorities she was instrumental in developing guidelines for addressing bias in faculty recruitment and retention.

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SOCIAL WELFARE AT BERKELEY ENDNOTE

In honor of Women’s History Month, Social Welfare Month, and the 150th anniversary of women being admitted to UC Berkeley, we are celebrating some of our “founding mothers” and leaders in the history of the School. Women had prominent roles teaching social welfare at UC Berkeley from the earliest days of the program, and Berkeley Social Welfare has consistently ranked above campus averages in appointments of tenure-track women faculty.

Dr. Mary Ann Mason

Dr. Lorraine Midanik

Dr. Linda M. Burton

Professor emerita Mary Ann Mason served as the first woman dean of the UC Berkeley Graduate Division from 2000 to 2007, with responsibility for nearly 10,000 students in more than 100 graduate programs. During her tenure, she championed diversity in the graduate student population, promoted equity for student parents and pioneered measures to enhance the careerlife balance for all faculty and graduate students.

Lorraine Midanik joined the faculty of Berkeley Social Welfare in 1985 and became the first woman dean in 2007. Currently a professor emerita, she is an expert on the biomedicalization of social problems, research methodology, health policy, alcohol and drug policy and the epidemiology of alcohol and drug use.

A renowned ethnographer who specializes in “big science” longitudinal studies of family dynamics that exist among America’s poorest urban, smalltown, and rural multi-generation families, Linda Burton became the first Black Dean of Berkeley Social Welfare in September 2019.

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