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Dr. McPherson standing outside of the SSW Building (Photo by Wingate Downs)
Dr. Cornelius Inducted as a Fellow of the AASWSW
Two boys cross a bridge in Kambia, Sierra Leone, carrying an array of items for sale. In the country’s Eastern Province, where Baindu lives, 33% of children under 18 have experienced some form of child trafficking.
SSWR presentations from Jan 10th to 14th, 2024 news cover
BSW Student Jalynn Colvin surrounded by Squishmallows. (Photo by Wingate Downs)
Engage Magazine cover
Dr. Leon Banks faculty spotlight graphic
Graphic of new faculty headshots
Student Loan debt graphic
Sydney Leiter student spotlight graphic
Photo of Members from the UGA School of Social Work and East Athens Development Corporation (EADC)
Image for Prevalence Reduction Innovation Forum at UGA
Associate Professor Tony Lowe
Graphic to promote Foster Boy film screening event
Graphic showing calendar of events for Social Awareness Month in April 2023.
Image of pinwheels in the ground
Farm to Neighborhood graphic
Krishma Gajure headshot
Professor and others at conference room table
Innovate 2023 magazine cover
Dr. Llewellyn Cornelius with Dean Hong and University of Chicago Vice Provost Johnson at AASWSW on January 13, 2024
Graphic to show UGA Social Work Online MSW Program Ranked #1
SSWR Presentations program cover
UGA SSW holiday card image
Graphic with headshot of Orion Mowbray
Lateefah Key in Cuba.
Student spotlight graphic with Caroline Sharkey's headshot
Social Justice Wanted publication cover 2022
Graphic of headhsots from those attending APM Conference
Keynote speaker and dean of the School of Social Work Philip Hong speaks at the podium. (Photo by Dorothy Kozlowski/UGA)
Student spotlight graphic featuring Andrea Garcia headshot
Graphic with details of film screening.
Orion Mowbray headshot
Graphic with professors and information about $2.2M Grant awarded to CenHTRO
Yarvis Jeffrey headshot
Graphic sharing event info on short documentaries about human trafficking and child labor in Sierra Leone
40 for 40 headshot of Maria Augutis
Image of Elyssa Schroeder leaning on sign
Philip Hong portal headshot
Dr. Joon Choi and Dr. Anthony Mallon lectured to students in the Social Welfare Department at Sung Kyun Kwan University
2021-2022 SSW Awards Booklet cover image
Rebecca Matthew headshot
Tony Mallon headshot
Joon Choi, center, and Ji Eun Han, right, recruit Korean American faith leaders in Chicago for a new program that helps pastors become empathetic advocates for domestic violence survivors. (Courtesy Joon Choi)
Promotional graphic for annual Donald L. Hollowell Lecture with Shalini Kantayya producer and director of “Coded Bias: Afrofuturism, Social Justice and Al.”
2022 Bulldog 100 logo/graphic
The Arch with early morning sunlight filtering through the trees.
Philip Hong portal headshot
Graphic promoting Graduating Class of Fall 2021
Image to promote presentation by Dr. Gary Lawrence
Graphic showing Parham Policy Day event details
(L-R) Graduate assistant and associate producer of the ‘Voices of Social Justice’ podcast Avital Abraham interviews Llewelyn Cornelius.
Y. Joon Choi. Photo by Chad Osburn/UGA.
From left, Tatiana Villarreal-Otálora, Jana Leigh Woodiwiss MSW'16, and Caelen Javiar Contreras BSW'21
Suicide Prevention Month event details
School of Social Work faculty member Jennifer Elkins
Photo of Tiffany Washington
Anna Scheyett
Image of blurry foot-traffic
Shari Miller headshot
Hand holding a bottle (Getty Images)
Cover of Graduating Class of 2021 program
Madison Smith sitting with laptop
Graphic to promote Thomas P. Holland Lecutre with Edgar Villanueva headshot
2021 Awards Program image
Photo of person stepping out of a creek
Georgia Power logo and UGA athletics logo
Image with information about the Donal L. Hollowell virtual lecture.
Graphic with information on the SSWR 25th Annual Conference: Social Work Science for Social Change
Logo for Athens Social Justice Symposium
Javier Boyas leaning on desk
Anthony 'Tony' Mallon, clinical associate professor of social work and director of the Institute for Nonprofit Organizations (Photo: Dorothy Kozlowski)
APRIES End Slavery logo
Andra Gillespie headshot
Three doctoral students standing in front of research posters.
Man holding a child's hand
Student looking at brochure.
Graphic with headshots and QR codes
Solidarity Support web logo/graphic
Michael Robinson teaching class (Credit: Peter Frey, UGA)
Juneteenth text on red/black/green background
Athens Area Community Foundation logo
Artwork of two faces facing each other.
Professor David Okech teaches a class at the School of Social Work.
2020 Spring Graduation program cover
Lemuel “Life” LaRoche, an instructor at the UGA School of Social Work, assists with food distribution in East Athens. (Photo by Laurie Anderson/UGA)
L-R: Emma Clarke and Sara Panico
Athens resident Amy Tucker uses a chair to do step-ups as she follows along in a Zoom meeting workout with her local gym in her Watkinsville home. (Photo by Andrew Davis Tucker/UGA)
Catherine Sharkey
Joel Izlar headshot
Image of laptop, cellphone and notebook.
Ellen Pauloski talking to student
Jane McPherson, standing, with UGA students at Social Work Day at the United Nations.
Decatur County farmer Bobby Barber, Jr., tells local University of Georgia Cooperative Extension Nan Bostick about the day Hurricane Michael struck his farm.
Person standing in front of spraypainted wall
Associate Professor Tony Lowe next to the Isaiah H. Lofton historic marker.
Graduate student organizers of the Athens Social Justice Symposium, left to right: Molly Petner, Johanna Weller-Fahy, Daniel McCrary, Kellye Call and Ada Allair.
Students from the UGA School of Social Work at the 2019 Athens Social Justice Symposium. Photo: Alonte Lee, University of Georgia
Group of people in a huddle
Professor David Okech teaches a class at the School of Social Work.
Llewellyn Cornelius now produces a podcast series for the School of Social Work’s Center for Social Justice, Human and Civil Rights. (Photo by Dorothy Kozlowski)
Pamela Landwirth standing at podium
Orion Mowbray talking to two students
Bob Sleppy (BS ’05, MBA ’10)
Javier Boyas Teaching Class
Javier Boyas leaning on desk
Bernadette Heckman counseling a student in her office.
Professor David Okech teaches a class at the School of Social Work.
Innovation Fellows Hitesh Handa and Jenay Beer in Handa's Lab and with Beer's robot. (Photo by Dorothy Kozlowski)
People sitting together with faces cropped out
School of Social Work faculty member Jennifer Elkins
Social work students at the UGA Gwinnett campus. (Photo by Laurie Anderson)
Storm Clouds Over Crop Field
The Arch with early morning sunlight filtering through the trees.
Harold Briggs headshot
Alejandra Calva, a dual-degree graduate student at UGA’s College of Public Health and School of Social Work, at the Lazos Hispanos quarterly meeting. (Photo by Laurie Anderson)
Jenay Beer with robots
UGA School of Social Work logo on black background
young beautiful sad and depressed Asian Korean girl lying on bed late night awake looking thoughtful suffering insomnia sleeping disorder feeling tired and worried in woman depression concept
Presenter pointing to a screen
Eddie Glikin and Lisa Anger eating cake together
Grace Gilbert headshot
Elyssa Shroeder
UGA Ranked #9 Nationwide for R&D Expenditures in Social and Behavioral Science
Mamie Harper
News Cover of SSW April Events for National Child Abuse Prevention Month
Dr. Elkins
Rank 20th of Best schools for social work 2024
Innovate 2024 cover
Sean and Saron Williamson
Welcome to SSW for Fall 2024
Emmanuel Abiodun Oke
SSW Engage 2024 Issue
GettyImage News Cover
Sashana Rowe-Harriott and Zoe Searles

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