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A Letter To My Students You are about to enter a very difficult profession. You will face your own disillusionment, secondary trauma, grief, and burnout. You will be overworked, underpaid, and under-appreciated.
Young professionals are often discredited for their lack of experience. Even worse is when someone verbalizes your age as a concern for your ability to do your job. We’re young, we get it. We promise we’re working on getting older …
The clown show has already stopped being funny. With less than two weeks in the White House, the Trump Administration has displayed a level of dysfunction rarely seen among people charged with governing the most powerful nation on the planet. …
There is a narrative amongst some who operate within Social Work that our work should be hidden, our interventions gone about quietly and that it is wrong to herald ourselves for what we do.
Some people cause problems for themselves and for others by simply ‘looking out for number one’ – that is, putting themselves, first, second and last. One of the problems with this approach to life is that it contributes to a …
You don’t have to work explicitly for a human rights organization to help advance human rights, whether your interests are global or local. Here are my tips for engaging in human rights work, despite your career or schooling background.
Folks who work for not-for-profit organizations are used to working with shoestring budgets. They understand that every dollar they spend must have a strong return on investment and that because they qualify for a special tax status, their financial documents …
In January of 2015, Governor Lawrence J Hogan, Jr. assumed office making him only the second Republican Governor for the state of Maryland in the past 46 years. Hogan’s predecessor, Martin O’Malley, brought impactful social changes to the state during his incumbency, many …
The news has been chilling this week. Two unarmed young black men were killed by police officers in a St. Louis suburb and in the city of Los Angeles. We also got word that American icon Robin Williams took his …
The Women’s Refugee Commission has announced the release of its groundbreaking new publication, Detained or Deported: What about my children? What to do if you can’t be with them. This toolkit is designed to help immigrant parents keep their families …
