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UA alumna Jilisa Milton, who earned her MSW-JD degree in May, has been named a 2019 Regional Public Interest Award recipient. Each year, the Equal Justice Works honors eight law students who have […]

During May commencement, Jilisa Milton became the first graduate of The University of Alabama School of Social Work’s MSW-JD program. Jilisa Milton had just completed her first summer of service […]

UA social work alumna Shannon Hubbard, coordinator of Alabama REACH at The University of Alabama (UA), has been awarded the 2019 Judy Bonner Presidential Medallion Prize, a UA Premier Award. […]

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 […]