Promotion? New Grandchild? Published a book? Honored with an award? You can share your news and updates with fellow alumni in the Class Notes section of the SSW website.

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Alumni Updates

March 15, 2018

Shannon Lane

Shannon R. Lane, MSW '99, recently co-authored the book Political Social Work: Using Power to Create Social Change, released in 2018 by Springer International. She was recently appointed Associate Professor and MSW Program Director at Sacred Heart University in Fairfield, Connecticut.

March 15, 2018

Danielle Swick

Dr. Danielle Swick, MSW 2002 has received promotion to the rank of Associate Professor with permanent tenure at UNC-Greensboro.

March 13, 2018

Sadhu Khalsa

I am the owner of Total Health Recovery, LLC. We provide counseling to mothers suffering from addictions and their families. I also am a certified wellness coach. See my website www.totalhealthrecoveryprogram.com.

March 5, 2018

Guillermo Sanhueza

Guillermo E. Sanhueza, PhD ’14 Social Work and Sociology has been appointed Chief of the Division of Rehabilitative Programs for Chile by the Minister of Justice. His main responsibility will be the promotion and monitoring of successful, effective rehabilitative and decarceration programs for both adults and juvenile inmates in the country.

February 28, 2018

Michelle Feige

Michelle Feige is the Executive Vice President of the Association for the Accreditation of Human Research Protection Programs, Inc., a global non-profit that promotes high-quality research through an accreditation process that helps organizations worldwide strengthen their human research protection programs (HRPPs). Michelle is proud to report that the University of Michigan is one of 8 AAHRPP accredited organizations in Michigan.

February 19, 2018

Meaghan McMahon

Meaghan McMahon began MBM Consulting, her social impact consulting practice in July 2015. Since that time, she has worked with local government agencies, for-profit, not-for-profit and start-up organizations in both the Washington D.C. metro area and San Francisco. Learn more at meaghanmcmahon.com

February 13, 2018

Samuel Felton

Samuel Felton, MSW 2015 worked as a Medical Social Worker at Lakeland Hospital for two years, becoming a licensed clinical social worker. In December of 2017, he was hired into a new position at Lakeland Health Care System as a project coordinator, working to improve inpatient and outpatient experiences of Heart Failure patients.

February 12, 2018

Andrea Schneider

Andrea Schneider, MSW, LCSW is a psychotherapist in private practice in the Greater Los Angeles area with specialties in women's reproductive mental health and trauma and loss. She writes for Psych Central, goodtherapy.org, The Minds Journal and The Thought Catalogue. Her website is: andreaschneiderlcsw.com She also has a podcast entitled The Savvy Shrink at: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/thesavvyshrink . She is EMDR trained and working on certification.

November 28, 2017

Bryan Joyce

Bryan C. Joyce, MSW '09, accepted a position as a Clinical Consultant providing psychotherapy to long-term care geriatric psychiatric patients. In addition, Bryan continues to work fulltime as a Clinical Social Worker with the Dept. of Veterans Affairs.

August 3, 2017

Garrett Raubolt

Garrett Raubolt, LCSW (SSW 05) has been recognized in the Northwestern Memorial Hospital (NMH) employee magazine Connections for his work developing and instituting the health systems first Collaborative Care, Integrated Behavioral Health Program in Primary Care. While working in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at NMH, Garrett is embedded in a primary care clinic to identify and treat patients who are experiencing depression.