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The lack of diversity in healthcare often prevents Latinx patients from going to the doctor. One student wants to help.

First-year student Yorlady Purcifull says doctors should be required to take part in workshops that improve their cultural competency. She recently published her argument in La Voz, a Spanish language paper that reaches 50,000 Latinx residents on the North Shore.

COVID-19 made the hunger crisis worse. She’s working to keep people fed.

Project Bread, a nonprofit that works to end hunger in Massachusetts, has served millions of meals to children during the pandemic. Its president, BCSSW graduate Erin McAleer, has been named a Bostonian of the Year by Boston Globe Magazine.

‘My goal is for my patients to know themselves as deeply as they can’

Madeline Liakos, MSW’20, recently received a grant from the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute to attend the National Meetings of the American Psychoanalytic Association. “This grant is really the opportunity of a lifetime,” she says.

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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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