The Jordan Institute for Families
The UNC School of Social Work
As a social worker and public health professional, Elyse Keefe’s work demonstrates just how broad the field of social work is. For the last five years, Elyse has worked on transportation equity projects to improve safety for bikers and walkers. During our interview, Elyse mentioned key themes of community engagement, systems thinking and systems-level interventions, […]
Matt Sullivan’s unconventional career in social work began in the police force, shifted to earning a Master of Social Work degree (MSW), working with student athletes, and ultimately led to being the Fire Chief of Chapel Hill, North Carolina. The story of his career journey is fascinating and inspiring. After earning his MSW, Matt […]
“Within this movement, everything we touch we change” – Octavia Butler In our webinar on Social Work leadership during uncertain times, we were joined by Monica Kearney, MSW, Executive Director of Safe Space, a non-profit organization committed to reducing relationship violence and sexual assault in Franklin County, North Carolina. Safe Space provides a shelter for […]
“How do we do power differently, not extract, exploit…how do we be regenerative?” With this call to action, Marisol Jiménez, MSW, concluded her remarks for how social workers can lead through times of change for our first webinar in the Jordan Institute Leadership Initiative. A National Association of Social Workers – North Carolina Chapter (NASW-NC)-award-winning […]
“History equips us not to predict the future but to meet it more wisely.” (R.T. McKenzie, A Little Book for New Historians, 2019, p. 30.) With this quote, Dr. Justin Harty, Assistant Professor in the School of Social Work at Arizona State University, began his keynote for the first event in our new leadership webinar […]
