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Laurie Friedman, MSW'03, is the Director of Multisystemic Therapy (MST) at the Center for Family Services in Camden, NJ. In her position, she supervises three teams of MST counselors in Camden County to prevent out of home placement of youth. Additionally, she also serves as a liaison with local state agencies and other social service providers. She is a licensed social worker and a certified child care worker. While at Penn, Laurie helped to organize a MLK Teach-In to educate the Penn and larger community on issues concerning poverty and human rights. She is a member of the Notre Dame Alumni Club of Philadelphia, and is on the Board of the Cedar Park Neighborhood Association in West Philadelphia.

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Chad Dion Lassiter, MSW'01, is nationally recognized in the fields of American race relations and violence prevention among African American males. He has worked with resilient and vulnerable families, youth, and communities as they experience normal developmental transitions in challenging environments. Moreover, he has worked on race, peace and poverty related issues both in Africa and Israel. Presently, he is an adjunct lecturer at West Chester University and is a researcher at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. At Penn, he is a co-founder and the current president of Black Men at Penn School of Social Work, Inc., and a former W.E.B. Du Bois Fellow. Mr. Lassiter is also an appointee by the Mayor to the Board of Trustees for the Philadelphia Prisons and he mentors youth whose parents are incarcerated. In 2008 he was the recipient of the “Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Involvement Award” at the University of Pennsylvania.

Suzanne Lyons, MSW '05, currently serves as the Associate Director of Civic House, the University of Pennsylvania's hub for student-led community service and advocacy. In this role, she prepares student leaders for responsible and effective civic engagement through her work advising the Civic House Associates Coalition (CHAC) Executive Board and overseeing the Service and Advocacy Education Series and Civic House's Public Interest Careers Programming. She also works closely with the Civic Scholars Program and advises a range of CHAC constituent groups. Prior to returning to Penn last year, Suzanne worked for the Posse Foundation, a national college access and youth leadership development program which identifies, recruits and trains student leaders from public high schools to form multicultural teams called "Posses." These teams are then prepared for enrollment at top-tier universities nationwide to pursue their academics and to help promote cross-cultural communication on campus. Suzanne is a licensed social worker, and served as the Student Council treasurer during her time at SP2.

Santo D. Marabella, DSW'91, is currently a professor of management at Moravian College and teaches courses in management, strategy, ethics and diversity. He is a 2002 recipient of the Christian R. and Mary F. Lindback Award.  At Penn, he is an SP2 Alumni Ambassador and was the keynote speaker at the Social Policy & Practice Alumni Weekend events in 2009. In his home community of Reading, PA, he was the founding executive director of Leadership Berks, the first executive director of the Berks Arts Council, and later served as the Arts Council president. Currently, he chairs the Greater Reading Film Commission, an entity he founded to promote Reading, PA as a film/TV location and a new hub for digital media projects and development.  He also is President of Marabella & Associates, which provides entertainment, not-for-profit and management consulting.

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