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American males, improving educational outcomes for disadvantaged students, and ending homelessness for civilians, Veterans and immigrants. Currently, I’m a Ph.D. candidate at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, Greensboro, North Carolina.”
Above: Jamie Loveland ’07. Below: Ann Marie Garran ’08, Cathy Kerr ’09, Stephanie Bryson ’96, Steven Hoffler ’15
me a note. Kian Jacobs at kfjacobslcsw@gmail.com.” ¾ Michelle Kwintner writes, “My article ‘Wearing Two Hats at the Agency: Disability Determination during Ongoing Psychotherapy’ appeared in Smith College Studies in Social Work volume 86:3 in 2016. I am going to finish my fourth year as a candidate at the International Institute for Psychoanalytic Training. Based in Washington, D.C., it accommodates distance learners in different parts of the world, including people like me who live and work in centrally isolated places such as Ithaca, New York.” ¾ Angelia Washington writes, “As a member of the Jacksonville City Council, I was instrumental in the passage of the holiday known as Freedom Day. In observance, the City Council passed resolution naming the second Monday in December as a city holiday beginning December 2016. The City of Jacksonville, North Carolina is the first municipality in the United States to observe the 13th Amendment as a holiday. I was recently appointed as vice chair of the National League of Cities (NLC) 2017 Human Development federal advocacy committee. I have served on this committee for three years, and this is my second appointment as vice chair. I’m the first as well as the first African American Jacksonville City Council member to be appointed to a NLC leadership position. This appointment allows me to collaborate with municipal leaders across America in garnering support from Congress in establishing the 13th Amendment as a national holiday. Advocacy for our nation’s citizens further supports actions with the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to address violence among young African
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2004 Clio Wiesman writes, “After working in the prison system in New York City, I spent eight years as a therapist with violent juvenile offenders in New Orleans. Recently I completed an MPhil at Oxford in Evidence Based Social Intervention. Currently residing in New Orleans, I have opened a practice and am completing work on the role of sustained trauma in personality formation and published an article on Feminist Epistemology in The RSWP. After the election results, my household is seriously considering moving to the west coast, either Oregon or California where we will not be surrounded by Trump supporters.” 2005 Susan Perry writes, “I accepted the position of assistant head of school for student affairs at Ravenscroft School in Raleigh, North Carolina. We are a preK–12 independent school with approximately 1,175 students, so no shortage of challenges and exciting opportunities to help students and families grow and learn. Lots of wonderful Smith SSW contacts and graduates here in North Carolina!” ¾ Kelly Wise writes, “After completing a Ph.D. in Human Sexuality at Widener University, I started an LGBTQaffirming Sex Therapy practice in the heart of Brooklyn. I am proud to have another Smithie on staff, Avigail Hurvitz-Prinz, M.S.W. ’14, who is working with me part-time and working at the Blanton-Peale Clinic part-time. We are Wiser Sex Therapy, visit us at www. wisersextherapy.com.” 2007 Jamie Loveland writes, “I completed my Ph.D. in clinical social work with a specialization in psychodynamic psychotherapy at the Institute for Clinical Social Work in Chicago, Illinois. My dissertation was a qualitative design examining the psychoanalytic approach of working with couples with addiction. Since graduating in June 2016, I continue to work in private practice primarily with couples, and volunteer as the clinical director of the Houston chapter of a Home Within—the only national organization that provides pro bono psychotherapy for foster children “as long
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as it takes.” My husband Mark and I will celebrate our 30th wedding anniversary this year!” ¾ Virginia Wyatt Wharton writes, “September of last year, my husband Jonathan Metry and I had our daughter Piper Wharton Metry.” 2008 Tamika Brock writes, “I served on a panel at the NASW 2016 Conference.” ¾ Adam Brown writes, “I received a Ph.D. in social work from the University of Chicago, School of Social Service Administration. In the fall I began a tenure-track faculty appointment at the Silberman School for Social Work at Hunter College, where I teach advanced clinical practice to M.S.W. students and research the assessment and treatment of child and adolescent sexual abusers. My wife and I live in New York City and we welcomed our first child, Arthur Barack Brown, on December 31, 2016.” ¾ Ann Marie Garran writes “In July 2016, CSWE launched their inaugural Program Director Academy, a year-long leadership certificate program for faculty who are transitioning to administrative/ leadership roles. Participants were chosen after submitting an application and reference materials. Of the 51 people chosen to participate, four of us are graduates of SSW’s masters or doctoral programs! We thought you would like to know about the continued success and leadership of SSW graduates. Information about the four of us is listed below.” ¾ Cathy Kerr, Ph.D. ’09, assistant professor educator, M.S.W. program chair, University of Cincinnati School of Social Work, kerrc@uc.edu ¾ Ann Marie Garran, Ph.D. ’08, associate professor and M.S.W. program director, University of Connecticut School of Social Work, agarran@gmail.com ¾ Stephanie Bryson, Ph.D., M.S.W. ’96, associate professor and B.S.W. program director, Portland State University, sbryson@pdx.edu ¾ Steven J. Hoffler, Ph.D. ’15, assistant professor and B.S.W. coor dinator Southern Connecticut State University, Social Work Department hofflers1@southernct.edu 2009 Karen Davis McGinty writes, “I continue to live in central Vermont. After six years of providing psychotherapy to adults and elders, I began to focus on the growing opiate epidemic in the state. To that end, I am close to completing certification as an alcohol and drug counselor and currently work with addicts in recovery as the medication assisted treatment (MAT) clinical care
coordinator at Gifford Hospital, our local hospital in Randolph, Vermont. I assess patients, do brief psychotherapy, work with three prescribers of suboxone and ensure that patients are abiding by the state rules of our grant-funded treatment program. I would love to hear from anyone from the class of ’09!” 2011 Amanda Slatus writes, “I am living and working in Washington D.C. as an LICSW in both com-munity mental health and private practice. I accept BCBS PPO and Federal insurance and just moved my office to U Street, NW. Contact me at Amanda.SlatusLICSW@ gmail.com or via my website www. AmandaSlatusPsychotherapy.com.” ¾ Dianne Terp writes, “I got licensed in November. It took nine months due to California’s change in exam policy. I am currently the behav-ioral health clinical case manager at the Curry Senior Center in San Francisco’s Tenderloin, providing psychotherapy to low income seniors with mental health and/or substance abuse issues.” 2012 Alexandra Jamali writes, “I have completed in-depth training in relational psychodynamic psychotherapy at The Psychotherapy Institute in Berkeley California. There, I had the pleasure to work with Smith pals Zehara Levin M.S.W. ’12 and Ali Kimmell M.S.W. ’12. I have opened a private practice in Berkeley and will be presenting a paper at the APA Div. 39 confer-ence in New York titled, Racially Queer: In Search for the Mixed Race Perspective in Psychoanalytic