Success Stories

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Karen Kozlowski Graham
Mental Health
Graham is the co-founder and CEO of SignOn: A Sign Language Interpreting Resource, and is also a transition consultant, leadership coach and psychotherapist at Karen Kozlowski Graham, LCSW.
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Valerie Guerra
Immigrants and Refugees
Guerra completed an Albert Schweitzer Fellowship in which she implemented a therapy project centered on music as a medium for emotion expression and regulation for traumatized refugee and immigrant children; she has continued her fieldwork and now conducts individual and group therapy at Heartland international FACES refugee mental health clinic for adults.
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Kara Guminski
Violence Prevention and Interventions
Guminski complements her skillset as an attorney with her studies as a graduate of the Crown Family School, allowing her to capitalize on both her logical and emotional sides in legal and social advocacy; she is particularly interested in women’s rights and human trafficking and completed her field work with Rape Victim Advocates and Inspiration Corporation.
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Alana Gunn
Criminal Legal Involvement/Decarceration, Trauma, Women with incarceration experiences
Alana Gunn has devoted her career to examining how criminal legal system involvement and intersecting experiences of stigmatization shape the health and well-being of individuals, especially women.
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Andrea Haidar
Violence Prevention and Interventions
Haidar completed the violence prevention program of study as a social administration student. Her social work interests and experiences center on youth violence prevention and international social welfare.
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Jaques Hamilton
Children, Adolescents, and Families
Hamilton is the founder and president of L.I.F.E., a nonprofit that provides resources and opportunities for more than 15,000 youth in Chicago, Memphis, and Houston.
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Mara Heneghan headshot pictured outside wearing a blue blouse in front of a flowering tree
Social Sector Leadership and Nonprofit Management
Heneghan works as the director of policy for Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle, where she works to implement the office’s strategic policy plan.
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Allison Hollander-Malen wearing a navy polka-dot blouse and red blazer in an outdoor park setting
Children, Adolescents, and Families
Hollander-Malen spent two years working with Teach for America and volunteering at the Night Ministry in Chicago’s West Town before coming to Crown Family School for her graduate studies, where she did her second year field work at the City of Chicago’s Department of Family and Support Services.
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Sean Hudson
Children, Adolescents, and Families
Hudson is a data and research associate at an early child care and education service, and advocacy organization in Chicago, the Illinois Action for Children (IAFC).
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Sarah Humpal
Government and Politics
Humpal worked as a Fellow in the Mayor's Office Fellowship Program at the heart of Chicago government, where she emphasized the connection between public policy and social work.
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Amy Hurd
Social Work, Criminal Legal Involvement/Decarceration
Amy Hurd wears many hats as a social worker for the Office of the Federal Public Defender in the Eastern District of Virginia. She is assigned to all mental health cases, and serves as the point person in the office for coordinating with outside mental health experts. Amy also serves as the office’s resident expert in death penalty mitigation.
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James jensen smiling
Mental Health
If you’re going to have a long, diverse career — say, one lasting nearly 50 years that includes tenures at hospitals and one of the country’s most well-known jails — it helps to have a solid educational foundation.
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Eric Johnson
Children, Adolescents, and Families
Johnson is the Executive Director of Neighbor to Family Inc., Illinois, and Co-Founder of the Cultural Enrichment Center and Johnson and Johnson Consulting-CFLS.
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Walaa Jumma Headshot
Global/International Social Work, Immigrants and Refugees
After graduation, Jumma became a director for AsylumWorks in Washington, D.C.. There, she is restructuring the community development and engagement program, that serves asylum seekers.
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Denise Kane pictured with Betty Butler in Edith Abbott Hall lobby
Children, Adolescents, and Families
Kane has reformed and strengthened the child welfare system in Illinois as the first-ever Inspector General of the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services.
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Lesley Kennedy
Social Sector Leadership and Nonprofit Management
Kennedy is the VP of Community Engagement for Girl Scouts of Greater Chicago and Northwest Indiana and teaches in the Crown Family School's Social Sector Leadership and Nonprofit Management program.