When Susan Gershenfeld, PhD ’16, (featured on the right alongside Emily Malamud, a 2013 Illinois graduate and former I-Promise student, now in her fourth year of residency in Pediatric Neurology at Stanford) set out to write her new book What If…Why Not?, her goal was clear: to reach more first-generation college students with practical, holistic […]

School of Social Work alumna Franshandra Owens, MSW, LCSW (MSW ’18), has been selected as the 2025 NASW-Illinois Chapter Social Worker of the Year. Owens is being recognized for her exceptional leadership, advocacy, and commitment to survivor recovery through her work as a clinician at the SIU School of Medicine’s Survivor Recovery Center. In this […]

Alice Dye is a MSW 2011 alum who is making new strides in leadership in healthcare. Based out of the western part of Chicago, she has become of the first two Social Workers in Advocate Healthcare, a large Chicago healthcare system, to be promoted to manager-level following a recent policy change. Alice now works as […]

Carlos Evans, School of Social Work MSW 2012 alum, has been selected as one of 500 Illinois recipients of the “Those Who Excel & Teacher of the Year Awards” by the Illinois State Board of Education. Carlos has received one of the two Awards of Special Recognition Student Support Personnel. Since 1970, the Illinois State […]