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To encourage environmental awareness and action, Mark Roseland joined several faculty members in an April 17 video ASU produced to mark the worldwide celebration of the 50th anniversary of the first Earth Day. But that’s not the only place the public could learn what he had to say about the future of our planet.
Richard Berg took over managing a foundation that holds an annual summer camp in the pines for disadvantaged youth, expanding its offerings to include year-round youth programs in Phoenix.
Erik Larson works for Berg as the foundation’s intern, learning and applying fundraising and program evaluation skills that he said led him to choose program development as his career.
Kelly Huey’s service to the social work profession has taken her from bedsides to boardrooms.
Social workers are often known to serve the economically disadvantaged, and many of them can be found visiting low-income neighborhoods, giving families tools to cope, to survive and even thrive.
Throughout a more than 30-year career, Huey, who received the 2020 Director’s Award for Distinguished Service to the Profession from ASU’s School of Social Work (SSW) in March, has demonstrated the impact social workers also can have in hospitals and hospice care.