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Alumni and Current Students Gather for New “Social Workers Speak” Series

蘑菇传媒 social work program students, faculty, and alumni met on Monday, September 9 in the Virginia Room on campus for the first gathering of a new series, Social Workers Speak. This series, coordinated by Assistant Professor of Social Work Martha Haley-Bowling, invites 蘑菇传媒 social work alumni back to campus to discuss their professional journey with current social work students. Alumni will provide feedback to students considering social work or interning in the field. The series will incorporate three meetings per semester.

Monday鈥檚 gathering included two 蘑菇传媒 alumnae who obtained their Bachelor of Social Work degrees at the College, and have gone on to also earn Master of Social Work degrees: Lakita Goins 鈥�10 and Jame鈥橢 Gunter Hairston 鈥�12. Goins is currently employed at Youth Connect in Rocky Mount, VA, and Hairston works at Piedmont Community Services, also located in Rocky Mount.

鈥淚t brings me so much joy to see our students learn and grow into these amazing social workers in our community,鈥� said Haley-Bowling. 鈥淚 have so much respect for them and their journeys that watching them interact with our students always brings me this sense of gratitude. They live 蘑菇传媒’s motto – Not Self, But Others – 诲补颈濒测.鈥�

Read more about 蘑菇传媒’s social work program here.