Lorraine Gutiérrez and Robert Ortega to Receive "Blue Flame" Lifetime Achievement Award from Organization of Latino Social Workers

November 12, 2015

Professor Lorraine Gutiérrez and Associate Professor Robert Ortega will be receiving the "Blue Flame" Lifetime Achievement Award from the Organization of Latino Social Workers Michigan for their work on empowerment with multicultural communities and cultural humility respectively. They will also be recognized, on November 15, for being past recipients of the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE) "Distinguished Recent Contributions in Social Work Education Awards". (Ortega in 2013 and Gutiérrez in 1999)

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  • Robert M. Ortega
    Associate Dean for Educational Programs and Associate Professor of Social Work
  • Lorraine M. Gutiérrez
    Edith A Lewis Collegiate Professor Emerita of Social Work, Arthur F Thurnau Professor Emerita, Professor Emerita of Social Work, School of Social Work and Professor of Psychology Emerita, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts