Updated: Oct. 29, 2021 — A eight-part lecture series, Leading Lights: UW Social Work Innovators on Creating Systemic Change, designed to spotlight some of the School’s most noted scholars who are driving systemic social change.
The speaker series was created by Eddie Uehara, Ballmer Endowed Dean in Social Work, as a special offering for first-year MSW students. “Our incoming students have entered the School in extraordinarily challenging times,” said Uehara. “The series will introduce them to some of our inspirational faculty who have made foundational contributions to the field and represent the best of our teaching and scholarship.” Although the speaker series is designed for MSW students, all students, alumni, staff and the broader social work community are invited to attend via livestream. Following each one-hour lecture, a 30-minute Q&A with the speaker only for MSW students will be held. The eight one-hour lectures will take place throughout 2021, with a summer break.
Future speakers include Tessa Evans-Campbell, a nationally recognized scholar on Indigenous health, and Susan Kemp, who co-leads the Grand Challenge for Social Work on social responses to climate change.
Prior presentations:
- Doctoral Student Vern Harner's Leading Lights Presentation, Oct. 28, 2021
- Associate Professor Gino Aisenberg's Leading Lights Presentation, May 28, 2021
- Lecturer Stephen T. Wilson's Leading Lights Presentation, Jan. 28, 2021
- Professor Karina Walters' Leading Lights Presentation. Feb. 26, 2021
- Professor Karen Fredricksen Goldsen's Leading Lights Presentation, April 1, 2021