In brief, what’s happening at Penn—whether it’s across campus or around the world.
The Program offers full-tuition scholarships and specialized, rigorous academic programming for incoming students, with a preference for those graduating from historically black colleges and universities and minority-serving institutions. The first cohort of three SP2 Social Justice Scholars are Gianni Morsell, Paloma Brand, and Skye Horbrook.
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Arie Hayre-Somuah, Jessica Cho Kim, and Victoria Aguilar from Penn’s School of Social Policy & Practice were selected and have been serving as Fellows for the Council on Social Work Education’s 2020-2021 Minority Fellowship Program, each seeking to address the breadth of behavioral health needs in BIPOC communities.
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SP2 has established the first ever SP2 Social Justice Scholars Program, geared towards funding and fostering an eminent education for graduate students, preferably those graduating from historically black colleges and universities and minority-serving institutions.
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Hannah Cao and Jennifer Bulcock will be working with Associate Dean for Inclusion Jerri Bourjolly, and the Advisory Committee on Race and Social Justice to implement critical schoolwide projects centered on diversity, inclusion, intersectionality, and social justice.
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The Years of Service award recognizes Mary Mazzola for her tenure of over two decades in the profession, emphasizing her creative and innovative approach to admissions and the ongoing support and mentorship that she has provided to colleagues throughout her career.
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Developed by the Center for High Impact Philanthropy and Philanthropy Network Greater Philadelphia (Philanthropy Network) with support from William Penn and Lenfest Foundations, the dashboard is one of the first efforts to collect grants data from numerous pooled giving funds and share it publicly, mapped against demographic and economic data.
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Mayors for a Guaranteed Income and the School of Social Policy & Practice has established the Center for Guaranteed Income Research, to consolidate the key learnings from the pilots taking place, address knowledge gaps in the contemporary understanding of guaranteed income’s impact for Americans, and allow the organization to layer data with anecdotal evidence in federal advocacy.
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Founded by Marci Hamilton, a Penn professor and advocate for the civil rights of children, CHILD USA conducts evidence-based research to identify laws and policies affecting child protection. Through the internship, Social Science Fellows have the opportunity to analyze data and conduct research on topics including abuse in sports, statutes of limitation, conversion therapy, educational neglect, and child safety during COVID-19.
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This summer, the entire School of Social Policy & Practice community is being asked to engage in a collective reading and continuous dialogue focused around the book “Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in 40 Questions” by Valeria Luiselli.
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After nearly a year of critical conversations and collaboration, the SP2 Task Force on Race and Social Justice has released a detailed report outlining a set of incisive recommendations aimed at advancing intersectionality, identity, and inclusion among all of the School’s constituent groups.
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