Postscripts Alumni Association Spring 2015 TSSW Alumna Reigns As Queen Tucks XLVII by Joseph Halm, TSSW Communications T Is Good to Be Queen

School of Social Work Postscripts Alumni Association Spring 2015 TSSW Alumna reigns as Queen Tucks XLVII By Joseph Halm, TSSW Communications t is good to be queen. That’sI how TSSW alumna Brooks Zitzmann (MSW ’09) sums up her time as Queen Tucks XLVII, but she added that the experience has been more rewarding than words can describe. “It’s been a whirlwind but it’s been an amazing experience,” Zitzmann said. “From hosting parties as part of my royal duties to the Coronation Ball, it’s been very special and exceptionally fun. I grew up in Tucks, so this experience feels like a rite of passage for me.” This year, the Tucks royalty had a decidedly Tulane flavor, as King Tucks XLVII John Randle also is a Tulane alumnus. Zitzmann has been a float captain for the past eight years, and her father and Brooks Zitzmann (MSW ’09) reigned as Queen stepmother previously reigned as royalty in Tucks XLVII. Brooks’ father and stepmother the Krewe of Tucks. have served as Tucks Royalty, and she credited the support of her family for her ability to serve This Carnival season also has been unique as queen while also pursuing her doctoral edu- Story continues on page 2 cation. (Photo by Zack Smith) Dean’s update Saying Farewell to Ms. Brown f anytime in the last 28 years this semester and we wish her youI applied to the School of every happiness. Social Work, you came to know Ms. Brown has been the face Ms. Gail Brown. of admissions and financial aid Of course, if you accepted at the School for nearly three admission to the School, you decades. Literally thousands and came to know Ms. Brown even thousands of applications have better. If asked, virtually every crossed her desk and several student at the School over this thousand students at the School period of time will tell you how have been the beneficiary of important Ms. Brown has been her efficient and highly effective to them as they made their way into and work in this area. She has though the School. She has mastered managed millions of dollars in financial aid. As someone who has heard this countless the delicate art of always maintaining the times I can say with authority she has been highest standards of professionalism and a very special and respected staff member. delivering this service personally. Ms. We wish her well as she entertains this next Brown will be retiring at the conclusion of Story continues on page 2 Continued from Page 1.... Zitzmann said family support has been amazing because Zitzmann, a licensed clinical social worker, currently lives in Washington, D.C. She serves as a chaplain in residence at Georgetown University while pursuing her PhD in social work at The Catholic University of America. Her academic interest is the spiritual dimension of healing from trauma through clinical social work. “I love learning about humanity as much as I love helping others,” she said. “I hope those passions will translate into inspired teaching and research in addition to my clinical work.” Professionally, in additional to her classwork, she serves as both a research and teaching assistant as she helps and supports faculty in their research. In the midst of that, she also co-taught a class on trauma in the spring semester. Queen Tucks XLVII Brooks Zitzmann (MSW ’09) and King Tucks XLVII John Randle, a 2009 graduate of the A. B. Freeman School of Business, get ready for their Coronation Ball on Jan. 24. “It has been a nice extension of my work at The Krewe of Tucks paraded on the traditional Uptown route on Saturday, Feb. 14 with the theme Loyola where I did a lot of work with sexual “Tucks Saves the Day.” (Photo by Zach Smith) trauma,” she said. “Of course, this Mardi supportive friends and family have been being lifted up by the members of the Gras has been different because I really do invaluable. Tucks community. I am so deeply grateful know what it means to miss New Orleans.” for the incredible generosity of my family “I’ve had an incredible number of family and friends throughout this process. It’s the Between her royal duties, doctoral work and and friends support me; it’s been amazing,” chaplain responsibilities, Zitzmann said her collective support of many people that made she said. “Being queen is really about this whole grand endeavor possible.”

Continued from Page 1.... Dean’s Message: Dr. Judy Lewis to retire in June chapter. management and financial aid is a complex an entity here at the School that she began. one, and I have charged Ms. Gold with the Of course, there have been many classes After a very thorough and extensive search, task of carefully examining our processes that she has taught over the years which the School welcomed Ms. Sheila Gold to within these domains. I am fully confident many current and past students will attest fill the newly crafted position of Director of that Ms. Gold will tackle this complexity with to their extraordinary value in preparing Enrollment Management and Admissions. aplomb. them to become professional practitioners. Ms. Gold began on April 1. Ms. Gold is At commencements, for the last 17 years, a graduate of the School of Social Work, There are many other changes at the we are all reminded of Dr. Lewis’ leadership having received her MSW in 1999. She School - new developments, and lots in forming a multi-university coalition (along is a licensed clinical social worker, board of newsworthy announcements. It is with SUNO and UNO) to seek and secure approved clinical supervisor and comes with with bittersweet sentiment that I write funding to establish the Leanne Knot extensive experience in a number of areas to announce that Dr. Judy Lewis has Prevention of Violence Against Women on which will serve her well as she takes the informed me that she will retire from the College Campus program. reigns. School of Social Work effective at the end of this academic year (June 2015). These and many more contributions attest Prior to her beginning at the School, Ms. Of course, we can be happy for Dr. Lewis to Dr. Lewis’ great commitment to the Gold worked at the Jewish Endowment as she prepares for an exciting “life after School. In my mind, perhaps the most Foundation here in New Orleans as the Tulane” and the many adventures that important is her unfaltering and steadfast Assistant Executive Director. Prior to await her. I, personally, am sorry to see dedication to professional moral and ethical that role, she served as the lower school her stellar tenure at Tulane come to an principles of personal interaction. We can guidance counselor at Newman School end. We all know that she has made many, always count on her to bring great wisdom for five years. She also has worked at many contributions to the School and the to this. Trinity Counseling and Testing Center as University since she began here 23 years a play therapy instructor and has been ago in 1992. Please join me in wishing Dr. Judy Lewis a consultant, author and trainer with the the very best as she turns the page and Center for Spiritual and Ethical Education Among these many accomplishments is approaches her retirement. from 2010 to the present. leading the field office as director for several years. She has been a true champion in The work of admissions, enrollment her role as chair of the Diversity Coalition, 2 TSSW Notes ..... What’s Happening at Your School Today lthough our alumni are no on Dec. 26, which left nearly a quarter of Tulane School of Social Work. “It’s Alonger roaming our halls in search of a million people dead, including 35,000 in unique because the enrollment is not knowledge, our students are just as Sri Lanka. limited to four classroom walls and hungry as those more experienced students will be able to customize their hands who are reading this. Here are “Significant progress has been achieved learning experience.” just a couple projects going on in the in disaster recovery, reconstruction, community, in the classroom and in our preparedness and risk mitigation by the All classes are held online and lesson faculty’s research arenas. government, private sector, academies, plans are divided into chunks of learning civil society organizations and others to called “Knowledge Blocks.” Those blocks, Sri Lanka recently commemorated the enhance community resilience,” Luu said. or KBs, collectively examine the broad 10th anniversary of the catastrophic spectrum of events that cause trauma, Indian Ocean tsunami, and among As part of the ceremony, Luu joined their consequences, and cross-cultural those present were representatives government officials in presenting 10 lessons of resilience and thriving. The of the Disaster Resilience Leadership National Leadership Awards for Disaster KBs will be released once per week and Academy (DRLA) at Tulane University. Resilience to individuals for their focus on topics including post-traumatic “exemplary leadership and remarkable stress disorder, domestic violence, “It was a tremendous honor and an individual contributions” promoting community resilience, sexual assault and incredible opportunity to see how far Sri disaster resilience since the tsunami. systemic trauma. Lanka has progressed in their recovery since the tsunami,” said Ky Luu, the “To recognize the 10 Sri Lankan Students will apply what they learned in a DRLA’s executive director, who is a disaster-resilient leaders who have video game, called TraumaQuest, which clinical associate professor of social work made Sri Lanka safer and stronger was was built specifically for the MOOC to at Tulane. an incredibly humbling and rewarding enhance learning and skills by reinforcing experience,” Luu said. key concepts and encouraging students For the past three years, the DRLA, with The commemoration also featured an to use what they’ve learned in a support from the Bill & Melinda Gates simulated real world. Students guide key Foundation, has been working in Sri exhibit highlighting Sri Lanka’s robust participation in the Strengthening characters in quests as they struggle Lanka to train leaders in disaster risk to recover from a disaster much like management through its Strengthening Leadership in Disaster Resilience Program, with nearly 200 fellows and the devastating flooding experienced Leadership in Disaster Resilience following Hurricane Katrina. Program. faculty participating in executive short course training, faculty development “This is a tremendous opportunity for The program aims to reduce disaster workshops and the program’s Global students to learn from experts in the risk in vulnerable communities through Network. field of trauma,” Figley said. “Not only executive short course trainings, can students learn from experts at both interdisciplinary graduate education Starting on Jan. 30, Tulane University students, faculty and staff members Tulane and in the community, but they and the creation of a global network of also have a chance to pick their focus. professional and academic leaders to were able to participate in the university’s first-ever Massive Open It’s a unique chance to offer a wealth of facilitate the sharing of ideas and best knowledge to a very large group.” practices. Online Course (MOOC), and organizer Charles Figley said the moment was For now the course is only open to Because of their impact in Sri Lanka, the historic. current Tulane students and employees, DRLA and the Gates Foundation were who can register -- http://traumamooc. invited to participate in the country’s “It’s a very exciting moment for everyone at Tulane,” said Figley, the Kurzweg tulane.edu/ -- but there are plans to open National Safety Day, an annual event it up to the public in the near future. marking the anniversary of the tsunami Chair in Disaster Mental Health at the SAVE THE DATE Homecoming 2015 Saturday, Nov. 7 5 to 9 p.m.

3 TSSW alumna plans to aid future students By Kirby Messinger, Development She credits the teachers who mentored her for her ability to handle difficult assign- hen Jane Atkinson looks back on ments and jobs. aW career that spans over 30 years, she is proud of everything she accomplished and “I just had some marvelous teachers at Tu- she credits her education at Tulane Univer- lane,” Atkinson said. “The stories they told sity’s School of Social Work for making it me helped me handle the difficult clients possible. She has made a bequest inten- and think on my feet.” tion to give back to the school that gave her so much. Atkinson plans to leave a scholarship gift in her will for TSSW students. She hopes “Tulane is such a beautiful place. It was a her gift will help future students learn the pleasure to go there,” Atkinson said. “I felt benefits of a career in social work under so grateful that I wanted to leave a gift.” the skilled instruction of Tulane faculty members. Social work wasn’t originally in Atkinson’s plans. She took classes on the encourage- “I really want to pass on the gifts I received ment of a sorority sister, and social work to future students,” Atkinson said. “I had eventually became her passion. After a wonderful career and I loved helping graduating from TSSW in 1960, Atkinson people and being a part of an administra- Jane Atkinson (MSW ’60) will leave a began working with the Louisiana Depart- scholarship gift in her will for future TSSW tion.” ment of Public Welfare as a caseworker. students. (Photo by Tatine Frater) She worked her way up through the ranks, To learn more about how you can leave a moving from their New Orleans office to Ba- “I had a variety of jobs,” Atkinson said. “I’m gift for TSSW in your will, contact Tatine ton Rouge and eventually managing a staff really proud that I was able to handle so Frater at [email protected] 504-314- of 23 in planning and policy formulation. many different types of things.” 7331. TSSW takes home preservation award By Emily Field, Tulane Publications he renovation of the Tulane University TSchool of Social Work’s downtown campus building at 127 Elks Place will receive the prestigious Louisiana Landmarks Society Award for Excellence in Historic Preservation. The building was renovated by local architecture firm Eskew, Dumez and Ripple and Donahue Favret Contractors, and was designed in consort with faculty members of the School of Social Work. According to the Louisiana Landmarks Society web site, the win was based on the repurposed building’s space that “balances design, safety and security with user need, program and institutional The third floor of 127 Elks Place has been transformed using bright hues and natural lighting. identity, while providing an inviting (Photo by Paula Burch-Celentano) learning, teaching and collaborative environment.” Z Smith, an adjunct associate professor professor and member of the Louisiana in the Tulane School of Architecture and Landmarks Society selection committee, The school occupies the building’s third the principal architect for the Elks Place believes the renovation promotes and fourth floors. renovation, quickly saw the potential of the environmental consciousness and is space. incredibly well built. Ronald Marks, dean of the School of Social Work, said the school had outgrown “The excitement regarding the building is “This is the kind of example we feel needs its home on the Tulane uptown campus. that it had character on the outside but to be set for all of our buildings in New With faculty input, Marks said it was was a modern space on the inside,” Smith Orleans,” said Cizek. determined the new space should have an said. “It has been really rewarding as an open feel, be full of light and allow people architect to work with an organization The 2015 awards presentation and to flow from one room to another. The going through huge changes.” reception took place on Wednesday, April school moved to the downtown building 15, at the Peoples Health New Orleans last August. Eugene Cizek, Tulane architecture Jazz Market. 4 Alumni Spotlight By Joseph Halm, TSSW Marketing TSSW Alumnae work together to teach New Orleans youth about Healthy Relationships

SSW Alumnae Alix Tarnowsky (MSW If we can get this program out to young T’12) and Sara Gershen (MSW ’11) have people early on so they don’t have to see a long history of working together to help me about domestic violence later, that’s others, and now, they’re writing another the ultimate goal.” chapter. The first groups have been held at Youth Both were interns at Family Service of Empowerment Project, Liberty’s Kitchen Greater New Orleans, and both are now and the Cowen Institute’s Earn and Learn full-time employees. In fact, Tarnowsky Program. was an intern during Gershen’s first year as Family Service’s Violence Intervention “People have been really excited about Program Manager. it because it is something unique that we offer,” Gershen said. “People were really “I think we’ve always worked well excited about NOLA Dads too, so it helps together,” Gershen said. “I think the make Family Service a little more unique. main reason that we work well together It also works with men who don’t normally is because Alix has really big ideas, and seek help.” I’m detail oriented. It works well because if I don’t shoot down an idea, we know Tarnowsky said her relationship with that it’s something that can really help the Gershen has always made tackling issues community.” to help others that much more rewarding.

That something is the newly minted TSSW Alumnae Sara Gershen (MSW ’11) “I could always go to her when I was nervous about something,” Tarnowsky Healthy Relationships program. Using and Alix Tarnowsky (MSW ’12) have formed said. “It’s just wonderful knowing that she the Relationship Smarts Plus curriculum the Healthy Relationships program at Family has a background in education. We just put out by the Dibble Institute, Healthy Service of Greater New Orleans. Relationships is a 12-week, co-ed get along really well, and it makes taking psychoeducational program for 16- to fathers with resources that it would help on new tasks that much easier. the entire community.” 26-year-olds. “At Family Service, we try to work with “It works with youth to better understand But one day, Jessica Irving, who is a part- the populations that others either can’t how to recognize red flags in time TSSW student and intern at Youth or don’t want to work with. We work with relationships, to develop better conflict Empowerment Project, asked a simple a lot of underserved, low socioeconomic resolution skills, and understand that question: “Is there something like this for clients. All of the employees here are violence isn’t necessary or the answer women?” very concerned with our clients, and it when dealing with personal and just didn’t seem like many people were Tarnowsky did some research, consulted professional issues,” Tarnowsky said. working with this population. We have with Gershen, and thus Healthy a lot of organizations that are working Tarnowsky added that the drive to create Relationships was born. The program’s with them to get jobs or continue their Healthy Relationships actually came from focus is to teach area youth how to education but not at understanding how to her work with NOLA Dads. The 12-week communicate better with not only their better resolve issues.” program follows a curriculum called “24/7 romantic partners but also their peers Dads” created by the National Fatherhood and their family members and work Tarnowsky said her focus is to keep Initiative and is provided free of charge colleagues. The program is now just a reaching those that need help. couple of months old but has been well for men who are expectant fathers, new “We just want to keep expanding these received in the community. fathers or have taken on the father role programs,” she said. “We’re already in a child’s life. The program provides “It was just something that fit really the No. 1 referral source for the court group and individual counseling, case nicely with NOLA Dads and the Violence system in Orleans Parish for the violence management, resume writing, interview Intervention Program,” said Gershen, who intervention program. It just shows skills and additional resources. also serves as a TSSW field instructor. that the work we’ve done with violence “There are plenty of studies that show the “Our programs are very closely linked, intervention is really great, and the courts more involved the father is, the better off and we work with very similar populations. recognize it. We want to be in every the child will be,” Tarnowsky said. “We What we really liked about Healthy school and community organization that decided that by focusing on providing Relationships is the prevention piece. wants it.” 5 Q & A with 2013 TSSW alumna Sarah Miller

Sarah Miller (MSW clients. Their backgrounds are so diverse, those things that you hear at the time and ’13) earned a but there’s always some level of trauma you think “I’m just graduating and that will Global Social Work – even if it’s just the resettlement process probably never happen,” and it happened Certificate (GSWC) itself. Even though I’m not seeing clients within three months of my new job! I’m along with her MSW. in the clinical sense, it’s informed the the only licensed social worker in my interactions that I have. I’ve found it to be organization, so it’s been a personal and The Office of Global helpful to bring that perspective. professional challenge. Programs took a few minutes to catch up What nationalities of clients do you What is something that has surprised with Sarah, and the work with? you about working in global social Sarah Miller interview is below. work? We exclusively see newly arriving refugees, What have you been up to since because we’re under the umbrella of This is maybe more specific, but I’ve been graduation? refugee resettlement programs, our funding surprised at the lack of understanding in is through those programs. We don’t have the community. Columbus is a diverse city Right after graduation, I took a job as a strict timeline on our funding, but it’s for its size, and there is such a disconnect a refugee health caseworker for a new generally 30 days after arrival until five in the broader populations and the diversity Refugee Health & Wellness Program in years. All of our clients are refugees. Three that is in the city. Refugees are such a Columbus, Ohio, that started in October main groups we see right now are Nepali, small percentage of that, but immigrant 2013. This refugee resettlement agency Iraqi and Somali, so it’s roughly a third groups and refugee groups are very has been operating for 25 years, but this each of these three groups. This city has separate from the broader community. It’s was a new program. Another employee the largest Nepali community in the U.S. important to not operate in silos and reach there, a program coordinator at that time, out to each other and coordinate services was a Tulane School of Public Health In what ways has the GSWC prepared when possible. It’s been a surprise and graduate 10 years earlier, so my hire was you for the work you’re doing currently? discouraging in some ways to see a lot of very Tulane-related! I remember taking a class on women’s great services, but a lot of gaps as well as Until recently, no mental health screening health through the School of Public Health, it relates to refugee and immigrant clients, existed for newly arriving refugees. It’s a and that I think about a lot in terms of and a lot of disconnect too. huge gap, because the needs are so great. how trauma can show up in physical What are your longer-term social work There’s a physical health screening but no health conditions. We don’t have our career goals? mental health component. So this program clients coming in and saying, “I’m anxious started a mental health screening using or I’m depressed.” It’s so often somatic I’m working towards licensure right now, a tool developed by a team in Oregon. expression of symptoms. That class helped and that’s longer term. Then sort of The work involves connecting clients with me get a broader understanding of mental always balancing if and how I want to do referrals for services, along with providing health and how it can impact the body. Also international work. Really wanting to be wellness activities. Many clients aren’t relevant were some of the basic principles conscious about not doing a position that a familiar with western style counseling and of social work practice, being strengths local person could do better, and not taking therapy, so we administer the screening based, and how those apply specifically to those jobs and being aware that I don’t and conduct home visits. This screening diverse cultural background. have the specific language skills or cultural is predictive, not diagnostic; anyone background. I would love to continue in who screens positive, I follow up with a What kind of stumbling blocks or this work. Often in this type of field I’m home visit. We check in and do some challenges have you faced as a global in now, rising up means becoming more strengths-based case management, which social worker working in the U.S.? management level, and I don’t want to stop involves discussing how things are going, I would say definitely language. Not working directly with clients. I want to keep challenges and issues they are facing, and speaking one of the three major languages working with refugee clients, but I’m not go from there. Also, our agency is starting that our clients do is always a challenge. sure whether it’s domestically or abroad up yoga and music therapy; leadership Though it may not be realistic for me to and in what context. training for youth; different health be fluent in Nepali or screenings; nutrition screening; and other Somali, I do wish that supplemental type activities. That was my I had one of those job for the first six to eight months. language backgrounds. Then I’ve come into more program I can see what a management. I’m doing half and half now difference it makes in – managing the program and doing some the types of interactions more intensive case management. you’re able to have with clients. Supervision Have you been able to integrate some of is another thing. I the GSWC learning into your work? remember Dr. Jane Parker talking about A lot of the work I do is focused on trauma how people so soon and the different reflections of trauma, and after graduation get how that might have been experienced thrown into management Sarah Miller (kneeling to right) said she has enjoyed the direct so it is relevant with my work with refugee positions. It’s one of interaction with her clients. (Photo submitted) 6 Jeanne Marshall (MSW ’11) currently In Memoriam resides in New Jersey and has been working for Catholic Charities since 2012 Mary Louise Reed Horn (MSW ’45) as a Disaster Case Manager assisting passed away on Feb. 2, 2015, from people who were affected by Hurricane complications from Alzheimer’s Disease. Sandy in Staten Island. Jeanne, who also Born in Augusta, Georgia, Mary was received a Certificate in Disaster Mental the first of her family to attend college, Health while at TSSW, said much of what graduating from the University of Miami she does involves presenting her clients’ and later earning her MSW at Tulane needs to an Unmet Needs Roundtable University and joining the National sponsored by New York Disaster Interfaith Association of Social Workers. She Services (NYDIS). Jeanne, along with moved to New York City where she met several of her fellow Disaster Case and married her late husband Sid. After Managers, received a “Tenacity Award” moving to Los Angeles in 1957, Mary for her work during the NYDIS Annual began working for the Children’s Bureau Meeting. Jeanne added that her ability of Los Angeles. Her pioneering work in to help others is due in large part to the foster care and adoption won her special lessons learned from her certificate, such recognition, including a “California Social as how to build a rapport with people who Worker of the Year” award in 1979. have been through a disaster. Always active in the Methodist church, Mary and her husband started a group for Dorinda Noble (MSW ’71) currently young college students at the Sepulveda resides in Kyle, Texas, and is the Director Methodist Church near her home in of the School of Social Work at Texas the San Fernando Valley, one of many State University (in San Marcos, Texas), leadership roles she assumed with the which educates about 650 BSW and church. MSW students, both on campus and online. Dorinda serves as President of After retiring in 1986, Mary moved south to the Board of Association of Social Work the coastal community of Oceanside - for Boards (ASWB). This organization owns the cooler climate and to be closer to one of her brothers. In 2006, in the early stages and operates the social work licensing social work boards in Louisiana and later of Alzheimer’s Disease, Mary moved to the tests used across the U.S. and Canada, in Texas, and now working with regulators Boston area to be closer to her two sons. as well as various U.S. territories. With across the world. She added that ASWB almost half a million social workers is a terrific organization which has taught She is survived by her son Paul, daughter licensed in the U.S. and Canada (the her so much about ethical, competent, in law Susan (Caron) of West Roxbury, her vast majority being in the U.S.), this legal practice with clients and client son Philip and daughter in law Anne Horn organization touches a lot of lives. groups. And she added that she got her and their two sons, Andrew and Evan, of Dorinda said she has really enjoyed and start on a rewarding professional journey New Cumberland, Penn., a sister Anne learned from being a social work regulator at Tulane, which holds a special place in and brother Jexie of Tuscaloosa, Ala., and over the last 20 years, serving on the first her heart! many beloved nephews and nieces. TSSW alumna wins prestigious annual award SSW alumna Tona Zwanziger (MSW memorable. I made lifelong friends and met work professional ’14)T was recently selected for the Tulane 34 colleagues that I hope to continue to work and is trustworthy, Award. with for years to come.”The award is faculty ethical and passion- nominated, and TSSW faculty said in the ate about her aca- The Tulane 34 Award is presented to 34 award application letter that Zwanziger is demic experience. graduates who have distinguished them- an outstanding, exceptional and mature stu- selves throughout their collegiate life. dent, especially seen in her careful scholar- She brought Students are recognized for their exemplary ship and writing. significant work leadership, service and academic excel- experience to lence. Named for the year the university Her focus on Disaster Mental Health is Tulane, including was founded, 1834, Tulane 34 is among reflected in an article she is submitting to 10 years as a Field Tona Zwanziger the most coveted university-wide honors The Journal of Traumatology and Mili- Medic in the U.S. bestowed upon students. tary Science entitled “Resiliency and the Army where she provided hurricane-related Knowledge of PTSD Symptoms in Military preparedness and conducted rescue and Zwanziger currently is pursuing a second Spouses.” recovery missions in Honduras, Belize and Masters in Tulane’s Disaster Resilience New Orleans. With her continued interest Leadership Studies. Zwanziger has natural managerial and in disaster preparedness and concern for leadership skills and consistently helped children and adults in traumatic situations, “I am truly honored,” Zwanziger said. “I other students in organizing their work, am honored to represent TSSW with this she intends to pursue PhD research in according to her faculty nomination. She is resilience. award and at the award ceremony. It was described as “a service and action-oriented the amazing faculty and staff who helped problem solver.” She consistently exempli- She also has interests in photography, other to make my experience at TSSW so fied the behavior and attitude of a social expressive arts and is raising two children.

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