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Two members of Class of 2020 receive fellowships from Catholic Relief Services to do humanitarian work in Asia and Africa

Jannah Muhammad and Kevin O’Brien, both of whom graduated from the School of Social Work in May, will work approximately 5,000 miles apart from each other. But they’ll share the same goal: to improve the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.

A population in peril

A joint report by the Boston College School of Social Work and Harvard Global Health Institute describes a serious public health crisis at the United States-Mexico border, where thousands of migrants seeking asylum are vulnerable due to hazardous conditions.

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‘Our values force us to not conduct business as usual, but to shine a spotlight on injustices’

Students and faculty in the School of Social Work have reshaped classes and reimagined assignments to address anti-black racism in the wake of the unjust killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Ahmaud Arbery.

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“To solve the most intractable problems of our day—and of tomorrow—we must draw upon a diversity of disciplines and partner with those who actually experience the problems. Only then can we create and scale up appropriate evidence-based interventions.”

Gautam N. Yadama, Dean of Boston College School of Social Work

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