Code-switching in the workplace negatively impacts BIPOC professionals. Marcus Shaw (MSW’25), a student at BU School of Social Work, shared his personal experience with code-switching at “Code-Switching & the Workplace,” an event hosted by the Boston University Center for Career Development (CCD). The event examined the ways workers of color navigate professional work spaces and […]
Addressing the negative trends in a culture, alongside its successes, can help prevent social and public health crises. Prof. Hyeouk Chris Hahm from BU School of Social Work focuses on this topic as the moderator for the panel “The City Talks: Korean Standards and Stigmas,” part of the “Hallyu! The Korean Wave” exhibition at the […]
Prof. Dawn Belkin Martinez, associate dean for Equity & Inclusion at BU School of Social Work, (BUSSW) will lead a panel presentation entitled Equity, Inclusion, and Justice Everywhere, detailing the School’s five-year ongoing initiative to center equity, inclusion, and justice and uplift anti-oppressive practice, at BU’s first annual D&I Summit on Friday, April 26. The […]
The future of local, state, and national borders as extensions of prisons and other carceral institutions will be discussed at a panel featuring Prof. Phillipe Copeland from BU School of Social Work. Prof. Copeland will discuss an abolitionist approach to borders and their impact on displaced people for a panel entitled “No Futures, No Borders,” […]