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“A Risk Anywhere Is A Risk Everywhere”: Jennifer Prah Ruger Shares Global Health Justice Vision
In a stirring and timely presentation for the latest Power of Penn Faculty event, Jennifer Prah Ruger, PhD, laid out...
CSWE Fellows Addressing Mental Health Disparities Among BIPOC Communities
Three graduate students from Penn’s School of Social Policy & Practice (SP2) were selected and have been serving as Fellows...
MSSP Alumna Named President of The Commonwealth Institute
As Ashley Kenneth explains, “I have always been passionate about social change and a strong advocate for justice”—and her notable...
MSW Student Selected for Yale Child Study Center Fellowship
Dakota Becker, a student in the Master of Social Work (MSW) program at Penn’s School of Social Policy & Practice...