Nevada County, CA: BUSSW Alumnus Named Public Health Director
Toby Guevin (SSW ’08) has spent seven years creating positive change in Nevada County. Now he’s leading the department he helped shape.
BUSSW Commencement 2026: Photo Gallery & Recap
On May 14, 2026, BUSSW celebrated its newest class of MSW and PhD graduates at Walter Brown Arena.
BUSSW Alum Receives 2026 Social Work Grant Award from Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute
BUSSW alum Sama Sarraj (SSW ’25), currently a social work fellow at Cambridge Health Alliance’s Program for Psychotherapy, recently received the 2026 Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute’s Social Work Grant Award.
BUSSW Alum Danielle Ferrier, CEO of Heading Home, Named 2026 Commencement Speaker
Speaking to this year’s graduates, Ferrier brings more than 25 years of social work leadership skills and experience in the human services sector.
BU Alumni & Friends: Ricardo Neal (SSW ‘99) Establishes New Fund
Ricardo Neal (SSW ‘99) established the Williams-Neal Fund for Community Change to provide field education stipends for BUSSW students facing financial hardship.
Noor Toraif (PhD’23) Joins BUSSW as Assistant Professor of Macro Practice
Dr. Toraif is a mixed methods, community-engaged researcher whose work highlights young people’s experiences in the U.S. child welfare, juvenile, and criminal legal systems.
Kitty Dukakis (SSW’96), Humanitarian and Mental Health Advocate, Dies at 88
Read more about Kitty Dukakis’s extraordinary life of service.
BUSSW Commencement 2025: Photo Gallery & Recap
Graduating students from the online, off-campus and hybrid programs, along with PhD students, joined their Charles River classmates at the campus for the big event.
Social Work Voice-NASW: Lecturer Malaka Mims (MSW’15) Shares Her Journey to Becoming a Social Worker
The National Association of Social Work – Massachusetts (NASW-MA) magazine “Social Work Voice” recently featured Malaka Mims (MSW’15), a lecturer and alum of BU School of Social Work (BUSSW) in their member spotlight where she shares the reasons why she became a social worker. Mims is also the president of the Greater Boston Association of […]
BUSSW Alum Ricardo Neal, President and Chief Executive Officer of We Will All Rise, Named 2025 Commencement Speaker
Ricardo Neal (MSW ‘99), a BU School of Social Work (BUSSW) alum, and current president and chief executive officer of We Will All Rise, a nationally recognized organization focused on improving life outcomes for young men of color across communities throughout the country (Atlanta, Georgia; Baltimore, Maryland; Boston and Lawrence, Massachusetts; and Milwaukee, Wisconsin) will […]