On December 3rd, five students graduated from BUSSW’s BRIDGE Program, an MSW pre-admission preparatory course for first- and second-generation immigrants and refugees. This year’s students and their families come from the Dominican Republic, Colombia, Mexico, Haiti and the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of the People’s Republic of China. All have worked in social work settings […]
BUSSW celebrates the achievements of the school’s five newest BRIDGE Program graduates on December 3rd at a special ceremony featuring Boston City Councilor at-large Julia Mejia as the guest speaker. Mejia, who grew up in Dorchester after her family emigrated from the Dominican Republic, is a social justice advocate and founder and CEO of the […]
As a Disaster Relief Manager for the American Red Cross in Los Angeles, Bridge Graduate Alexis Agrinsoni (‘15) Empowers Vulnerable Communities.
Catherine Medina-Perez (BRIDGE’15) remembers working as a tutor to help a student at John F. Kennedy elementary school in her Boston neighborhood of Jamaica Plain. The student was not only learning new information, but doing so in a language that was foreign to him as an immigrant from the Dominican Republic. “His parents didn’t know […]