The Role of Social Work Before, During, and After the Elections
September 15 @ 5 PM [EDT]
All events are free and open to students, faculty, social workers, and community members.
CEUS (up to 4.5 Credits) are available for $20 per session or $50 for all three sessions. (info on upcoming sessions below)
Please join us for a panel discussion about voter registration, education, and turnout that features local community organizations who engage in such efforts. Attendees will gain concrete guidance on how individuals and agencies can register and mobilize potential voters. In addition, we will focus on the threats we currently are experiencing in the form of calculated voter suppression strategies and what we can do about that with Baltimore Votes, No Boundaries Coalition and others.
Eean Logan
An experienced Program Manager, educator, and facilitator from Baltimore Maryland. He currently
serves as the Civic Culture and Youth Program Director at No Boundaries Coalition.
Tasmin SwansonThe Director of Programs at Baltimore Votes. Baltimore Votes is working towards a future where every person, in every precinct, votes in every election.
Nicole Hanson
Nicole Hanson is an expert on criminal justice policy and reentry in Maryland. She currently serves as the Executive Director of Out for Justice, a returning citizen, a member-led nonprofit organization working to reform local and statewide reentry policies.
David Friedman
David is a 2020 graduate of the UM School of Social Work with a Macro concentration and specialization in Children and Families. Through actively applying Dr. Wendy Shaia's SHARP framework, David worked to build and support a growing team of student and community organizers to promote civic awareness, education and action as a means to disrupt Socially Engineered Trauma (SET).
Upcoming Daniel Thursz Social Justice Lectures
NOVEMBER 10, 2020
This event will be a forum for brainstorming how we respond as individuals, a school, and a community, given the outcome of the election at the local, state, and national levels with The Leaders of a Beautiful Struggle, Job Opportunities Task Force, and the Baltimore Public Justice Center.
DECEMBER 1, 2020
This event features political analysis of the election and its outcome by University of Washington Professor Megan Ming Francis, MA, PhD.
This Fall 2020 Daniel Thursz Social Justice Lecture series is co-sponsored by the School's Social Work Community Outreach Service (SWCOS), Macro Curriculum Committee, Policy Sequence, the Community Action and Social Policy Specialization, and the Office of Continuing Professional Education.