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100 Distinguished Alumni

GSSWSR graduates nominated their peers and colleagues for inclusion in a list of our 100 Distinguished Alumni. We are pleased to list them below and recognize their accomplishments and their dedication to the service of others.

Ann A. Abbott
MSS โ€™69, PhD โ€™77
Former chair, Graduate Department of Social Work, West Chester University and Associate Dean, Rutgers University School of Social Work

Faith Angell
MSS โ€™65
U.S. Magistrate Judge, Eastern District, PA

Khary M. Atif
MSS โ€™97, MLSP โ€™98
Program Administrator for Staff Development Support, Philadelphia DHS

Beth I. Barol
MSS โ€™86, PhD โ€™98
Associate Professor, Director of the MSW program, Widener University Center for Social Work Education

Linda R. Barth
MSS  โ€™73
Clinician working with children, families and individuals

Joyce O. Beckett
MSS โ€™69, PhD โ€™77
Professor Emerita, Virginia Commonwealth University School of Social Work

L. Diane Bernard
PhD โ€™67
Retired social work educator and CDWE leader; advocate bringing womenโ€™s and LGBTQ issues to the forefront of social work education

Sharon Bishop
MSS โ€™71
Co-founder of Calibre Associates, consulting organization on human services and human resource issues

Joretha Bourjolly
PhD โ€™96
Associate Professor, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Penn School of Social Policy and Practice

Yvette Bradford
MSS โ€™90, MLSP โ€™90
Former senior administrator with Liberty Lutheran Services and Philadelphia Corporation for Aging; community volunteer

Lynette M. Brown-Sow
MSS โ€™81
Vice President, Marketing and Government Relations, Community College of Philadelphia

Page Walker Buck
MSS โ€™04, PhD โ€™08
Associate Professor, Director of MSW program, West Chester State University

Patricia Millar Burland
MSS โ€™56
Retired GSSWSR professor of clinical social work; leader, PA Society for Clinical Social Work

Jean Campbell
MSS โ€™13
Outpatient therapist, behavioral specialist consultant and mobile therapist

Patricia L. Chapman
MSS โ€™81
Philanthropist supporting women balancing education and family

Lewis C. Chartock
PhD โ€™74
President and CEO, Metropolitan Employment and Rehabilitation Services/Missouri Goodwill

Darla Spence Coffey
PhD โ€™99
President, Council on Social Work Education

Soraya Davis Coley
MSS โ€™74, PhD โ€™81
President, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona

Sandra S. Cornelius
MSS โ€™68, PhD โ€™76
President, Elwyn

Adelaide Cromwell
CERT โ€™43
Professor Emeritus, Boston University

Philip W. Damiani
MSS โ€™76
Executive Director, Delaware County Court System (Retired)

Joan K. Davitt
MSS โ€™93, MLSP โ€™94, PhD โ€™03
Associate Professor and Hartford Geriatric Social Work Scholar, University of Maryland School of Social Work

Merle M. Drake
MSS โ€™82
Founder, CEO of Supportive Older Women's Network (SOWN) 1983โ€“present

Fanita Blumberg
English MA โ€™42, CERT โ€™42
Transactional Analysis theorist, training analyst and practitioner

JoAnne Fischer
MSS โ€™73
Executive Director of Maternity Care Coalition (1989-present)

Anna S. Forbes
MSS โ€™92
Global women's health activist and policy analyst

Ellen W. Freeman
MSS โ€™73, PhD โ€™76
Research Professor, Co-director of the Human Behavior Reproduction Unit, University of Pennsylvania Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology

Mariah Fenton Gladis
MSS  โ€™72
Founder and Director, Pennsylvania Gestalt Center

Judith Green
MSS โ€™90, MLSP โ€™90
Coordinator, Family to Family program, National Alliance on Mental Illness, Main Line

Laura Cohen Groves
MSS โ€™95, PhD โ€™06
Associate Professor and Chair, Social Work Department, Cabrini College

Gloria M. Guard
MSS โ€™78, MLSP โ€™80
Executive Director of People's Emergency Center (1983-2010)

Anne B. Hagele
MSS โ€™75
Executive Director, Philadelphia Senior Center, Retired

Raheemah Shamsid-Deen Hampton
MSS โ€™02
Southeast Regional Director, Commonwealth of Pennsylvaniaโ€™s Office of Children, Youth and Families

Lina Hartocollis
MSS โ€™89, PhD โ€™99
Dean of Students and Director of the Doctorate in Clinical Social Work Program, Penn School of Social Policy and Practice

Julius A. Hayes
MSS โ€™87, MLSP โ€™88
National Officer/Local leader, National Association of Black Social Workers; supervisor, Philadelphia DHS

Ethel B. Hill
MSS โ€™65
Social Security Administration Federal Women's Program Manager (Retired); Howard County, MD, civic leader

Stephen M. Holden
MSS โ€™67, PhD โ€™75
New Jersey Superior Court Judge 

Linda Denise Houser
PhD โ€™10
Associate Professor, PHD Program Director, Widener University Center for Social Work Education

Demetrius S. Iatridis
PhD โ€™55
Professor Emeritus, Boston College Graduate School of Social Work (1966-2012)

Roberta R. Iversen
MSS โ€™82, PhD โ€™91
Associate Professor, Director, Master of Science in Social Policy Program, Penn School of Social Policy and Practice

Carrie Jacobs
MSS โ€™83
Executive Director and co-founder of The Attic Youth Center for LGBTQ youth

Celeste M. Johnson
MSS โ€™78, PhD โ€™06
Associate Professor, Widener University Center for Social Work Education; research focus on urban adolescents and trauma

Aulikki Kananoja
MSS  โ€™71
Awarded the first Finnish presidential honorary title for social workโ€”the highest honor for a profession (2012)

Stephen E. Kauffman
PhD โ€™92
Associate Professor, Widener University Center for Social Work Education; Teagle Assessment Scholar of Center for the Inquiry of Liberal Arts based at Wabash College

Nancy J. Kirby
MSS โ€™65
Coordinator of Alumni Connections, GSSWSR, former Assistant Dean and Director of Admission, GSSWSR (1983-2010)

Carole Landis
MSS โ€™95
Chairwoman, Landis Foundation for Social Action

John G. Loeb
MSS โ€™69
Senior Vice President, Public Health Management Corporation, retired (1971-2011); Chairperson GSSWSR Board of Advisors

Robin S. Mama
MSS โ€™84, MLSP โ€™84, PhD โ€™90
Dean and Professor, Monmouth University School of Social Work; Representative of the International Federation of Social Workers at the United Nations

Marcia L. Martin
PhD โ€™82
Co-Dean (2002-2009); Associate Dean, Director of Field Instruction, adjunct faculty, GSSWSR

Thaddeus P. Mathis
MSS โ€™68
Professor Emeritus, Temple University School of Social Administration; Founder, Institute for Africana Social Work

Ruth W. Mayden
MSS โ€™70
Dean, GSSWSR (1987-2002); NASW President (1999-2001); Annie E. Casey Fellow (2002-2013)

Patrick T. McCarthy
PhD โ€™81
President and CEO, Annie E. Casey Foundation

Judith L. M. McCoyd
PhD โ€™03
Associate Professor, Rutgers University School of Social Work; research focus on trauma and bereavement

Suzanne M. McMurphy
MSS โ€™84, MLSP โ€™85, PhD โ€™93
Associate Professor, Social Work, University of Windsor; focus on community research

Justine McNamara
PhD โ€™04
Senior Research Fellow, NATSEM, University of Canberra

Susan A. Messina
AB โ€™86, MSS โ€™91, MLSP โ€™92
Social justice advocate and activist for LGBTQ issues and childbirth education

Honora Rose Miller
MSS โ€™99, MLSP โ€™99
Director,Commission on the Status of Women and the LGBTQ Commission, San Mateo County, CA

Judith Dabney Miller
MSS โ€™85, MLSP โ€™86
Associate Director, Women's Law Project

Tselane Mokuena
MSS โ€™94, MLSP โ€™94
Deputy Executive Director, Tripartite Secretariat-South Africa, Angola, Democratic Republic of Congo; former South Africa Consul to Canada and to Germany

Jean Campbell Moore
MSS โ€™49
Associate Professor Emerita, Temple University School of Social Administration; founder, Career Ladders Program; program host, WRTI

Anthony Morelli
MSS โ€™12
Director of Off-Site Programming, Peter's Placeโ€”a Center for Grieving Children

Alice Muludiang
MSS โ€™05, MLSP โ€™06
Advocate for Sudanese refugees in the US and for capacity building in South Sudan; board member, Global Education Motivators

Sabina N. Neem
MSS โ€™07, MLSP โ€™07
Associate Director, Office of Multicultural Affairs, Seattle University; Co-Chair, Seattle LGBT Commission

Sheila Nielsen, MSS โ€™73
President, Nielsen Career Counselingโ€”executive coaching firm

Dolores G. Norton
MSS โ€™60, PhD โ€™69
Professor Emerita, University of Chicago School of Social Administration; first African American tenured professor at 91ณินฯอ๘

Ann Oโ€™Brien
MSS โ€™03, MLSP โ€™03
CEO, Montgomery Early Learning Centers; former Senior Vice President, United Way of Southeastern PA

Catherine Ormerod
MSS โ€™99, MLSP โ€™99
Founding director, Non-Profit Executive Leadership Institute (NELI), GSSWSR; Vice President Programs and Partnerships, Living Beyond Breast Cancer (LBBC)

Cheryl Ann Parks
PhD โ€™97
Dean and Professor, Simmons College School of Social Work

Belle B. Parmet
MA โ€™40, CERT โ€™40
Former Director of Psychiatric Social Worker at Carrier Foundation; early pioneer in family therapy practice

Joan T. Pennell
PhD โ€™90
Professor of Social Work and Director of Center for Family and Community Engagement, North Carolina State University

Felice Perlmutter
PhD โ€™69
Professor Emeritus, Temple University School of Social Administration; pioneer in social work administration

Linda Cherrey Reeser
MSS โ€™60, PhD โ€™69
Professor, Director of BSW Program, Western Michigan University

Lawrence S. Root
MSS โ€™71
Professor and Director of Office of Global Activities, University of Michigan School of Social Work

Tawana Ford Sabbath
MSS โ€™71, PhD โ€™86
Community elder, clinician and mentor; local and national NABSW leader

Allyson Y. Schwartz
MSS โ€™72
Former PA US Representative and PA State Senator; President and CEO, Better Medicare Alliance

Deena Schwartz
MSS โ€™65
Social worker and advocate for persons and families dealing with longer-term intellectual disabilities

Nicholas C. Scull
MSS โ€™02
Clinical Director, Fawzia Sultan Rehabilitation Institute; Assistant Professor and Assistant Dean, American University of Kuwait

Carol Shapiro
MSS โ€™78
Founder and President of Family Justice, community centered re-entry program; Ashoka Fellow

Valerie Shapiro
MSS โ€™05
Assistant Professor, co-director of Center for Prevention Research, UC-Berkeley School of Social Welfare

Corey Shdaimah
PhD โ€™05
Associate Professor, Academic coordinator of MSW/JD program, University of Maryland School of Social Work

Edmund A. Sherman
PhD โ€™67
Professor Emeritus, SUNY-Albany School of Social Welfare

James H. Sills
PhD โ€™81
Former state representative, city councilman and two term mayor of Wilmington, DE

Paula T. Silver
PhD โ€™92
Dean and Professor, School of Professional Studies, Widener University

Basha A. Silverman
MSS โ€™12
Vice President for Strategic Planning, Jewish Family and Children's Services of Greater Philadelphia

Barbara L. Simon
MSS โ€™76, PhD โ€™81
Associate Professor, Columbia University School of Social Work

Rosa Lee Smith
MSS โ€™51
Retired counselor, LaSalle University, mentor to countless social workers; collaborator with Dr. Warren E. Smith, community psychiatrist

Deborah Spungen
MSS โ€™89, MLSP โ€™90
Founding Director of Families of Murder Victims and Anti-Violence Partnership of Philadelphia

Harold E.Stafford
MSS โ€™73
Former Secretary of Labor, State of Delaware; more than 30 years of management of Delaware state agencies

Gail S. Steketee
MSS โ€™73, PhD โ€™87
Dean and Professor, Boston University School of Social Work

Patricia A. Stewart
MSS โ€™81
Advocate and national consultant on HIV/AIDS issues in the African American community; clinician and social work mentor

Jennifer Stotter
MSS โ€™99, PhD โ€™10
Director of EEO/AA, University of Hawaii at Hilo; former Director of AA/EEO, CVS Caremark Corporation

Emiko Anne Tajima
PhD โ€™99
Associate Professor and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, University of Washington School of Social Work

Tony Thurmond
MSS โ€™95, MLSP โ€™96
Representative, 15th Assembly District, California; former Richmond, CA, council member; youth services advocate

Niambi Robinson-Tillman
AB โ€™92, MSS โ€™94, MLSP โ€™95
Assistant Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Dallas, TX

Theresa Peaches Valdes
AB โ€™99, MSS โ€™03, MLSP โ€™03
Dean of Undergraduate Admissions, 91ณินฯอ๘

Shirley Waites-Howard
MSS โ€™77
Social work educator, bereavement counselor and longtime community activist

Nina Wall-Cote
MSS โ€™00
Director, Bureau of Autism Services of the PA Department of Public Welfare

Bertha S. Waters
MSS โ€™79
Community advocate and activist for social justice and social change

Elizabeth Werthan
MSS โ€™73
Dedicated advocate for women's health and rights; former Executive Director of CHOICE and Board Chair of Womenโ€™s Way

Henry L. Westray
MSS โ€™74
Former State Coordinator and Chair, Maryland Governor's Commission on Suicide Prevention

Scott M. Wilson
MSS โ€™65, PhD โ€™76
Social work education consultant, Senior Educational Specialist, Division of Standards and Accreditation, Council on Social Work Education

Robert E. Young
MSS โ€™57
Retired Clinical Social Worker and Researcher, Eastern Virginia Medical School