School of Social Work News

Julie Nagel, MSW '82, PhD '87, author of Melodies of the Mind, had a book signing on October 4, 2013 at The Juilliard School. She also presented at the William Alanson White Conference in New York in October.

Linda Bowman, MSW '75, has returned to serving as a renal social worker. She is working at DaVita, the second largest provider of dialysis in the U.S.

Sekai K.Ward, MSW '07, is a case manager at SOS Community Services in Ypsilanti, Michigan, where she helps homeless families become self-sufficient. She received the Michigan Coalition Against Domestic Violence and Sexual Violence 2011 Promise Award for outstanding advocacy on behalf of survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault. Sekai also provides supervision to LLMSWs who are pursuing their clinical licenses.

Jennifer M. Acree, MSW '05, joined the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation as an associate program officer for the Flint area grantmaking team. She will be responsible for a variety of grantmaking strategies within the Flint program, with particular focus on the local nonprofit community.

John F. Butler, MSW '74, edited "The Origins of Family Psychotherapy: The NIMH Family Study Project", by Jason Aronson. This book was published in April 2013.

Kristin Meekhof, MSW '98, is a writer for The Huffington Post. She is also co-writing a book entitled "Just Widowed."

Lawrence Green, MSW '68, has spent much of his time, since retiring after 42 years as a psychiatric social worker, writing a memoir of his childhood. It is told primarily through the eyes of a young child. It is entitled Once Upon a Wounded Heart.

Robert MacDonald, MSW '68, retired from Dearborn Public Schools after thirty years of service.