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“There is Nothing Wrong With You”

American Board of Clinical Social Work

In a culture in which medicine diagnoses and treats illness and disease and the criminal justice system identifies the perpetrator and delivers judgment and punishment, it is no wonder that couples might believe that identifying and correcting what is wrong with someone solves the problem.

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Scholarship Recipients 2022

University of Connecticut

After my MSW, my goal is to work in the criminal justice system, practicing social work in a juvenile detention center. I have always been passionate about criminal justice reform and lowering our country’s recidivism rate through rehabilitative practices. Kinlock Endowment Fund in Social Work.