CONNECTIONS | Winter 2021

Connections is a quarterly e-newsletter featuring Columbia School of Social Work news and the accomplishments of our faculty, researchers, students, and staff. It complements our weekly e-newsletter, Connect with Us, which lists upcoming events and provides links to videos of recent past events. Make sure you’re the first to hear about our events with experts in social work and related fields, our latest news, and our reports on how our faculty’s research is having an impact. Subscribe to our email list.

WINTER 2021

Issue Date: March 5, 2021

• TOP STORIES
  • Lessons from Decades on the Frontlines of the HIV/AIDS Pandemic
  • Undergraduates Engage with Social Work Through the Justice and Pandemics Preparedness Academy
  • Let’s Talk About Anti-Racism with Ibram X. Kendi
• SPOTLIGHT ON FACULTY
  • Six Faculty Receive Seed Funding for Projects That Address Structural Racism
  • Qin Gao Joins Columbia University’s Committee on Global Thought
  • Yamile Martí Receives Diversity Grant Award from Columbia’s Provost
• SPOTLIGHT ON STUDENTS
  • Meet the School’s 2020–2021 CSWE Master’s Minority Fellows
  • Five PhD Students Enter the Academic Job Market
  • Two from CSSW Are Finalists for Presidential Management Fellowships
• SPOTLIGHT ON ALUMNI
  • SPECIAL REPORT: CSSW and U.S. Politics & Government
  • CSSW Alumni Join the Ranks of COVID-19 Contact Tracers in NYC
• INTERVIEW SERIES:3 Questions for…
  • Rob Hartley, Assistant Professor
  • Ife Lenard, Adjunct Professor and Alumna
  • Ada Deer, U.S. Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs (1993–1997) and Alumna
• SPECIAL REPORT: CSSW AND RACIAL JUSTICE