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June 2018 Born into a historic Alabama farm family, UA Social Work alumna Melanie Bridgeforth is focused on planting her own seeds to fight poverty as the new Women’s Fund […]

Alumna Julie Blanks has assumed the duties as Principal Director for Military Community and Family Policy in the Office of the Secretary of Defense. She was named in August. A […]

Alumna Karen Thompson has been named the new president of the Junior League of Tuscaloosa and is the first black person to hold the position in the group’s 89-year history. […]

In March, alumna Melanie R. Bridgeforth began in her new position as president and chief executive officer of The Women’s Fund of Greater Birmingham. “The work of The Women’s Fund […]

UA social work alumna Jessica Averitt Taylor, assistant professor of social work in the College of Education and Human Services’ Department of Counseling, Social Work and Leadership at Northern Kentucky […]

Alumna Amy B. Mansue, president of the Southern Region of RWJBarnabas Health, has been named chair of the Board of the New Jersey Hospital Association, the state’s oldest and largest […]

Dr. Matthew J. Cuellar, assistant professor of social work at Yeshiva University’s Wurzweiler School of Social Work, has been awarded a three-year, $1 million grant from the National Institute of […]

UA Social Work alumnus Jerry Milner will lead the federal agency within the Department of Health and Human Services that oversees federal child welfare funding and policy. He was hired by the […]

Patricia Swift Blalock, who integrated Selma’s public library in the 1960s, was posthumously inducted into the Alabama Social Work Hall of Fame Sept. 22. Blalock, along with four others in […]

The former director of the Department of Youth Services and one of the leaders of Alabama’s trailblazing Children’s Health Insurance Program are among the 2016 inductees to the Alabama Social […]