The members of the Silberman School of Social Work at Hunter College stand in solidarity with people throughout the United States and around the world in mourning the deaths of George Floyd and Ahmaud Arbery. This senseless loss of life at a time when the official COVID-19 death toll in the U.S. has reached 100,000 defies our understanding.
Social workers must speak out against injustice and at the same time be self-aware to ensure that residuals of systemic racism as well as other ‘isms‘ that live in all of us are identified and addressed.
Earning a master’s from Hunter College and a doctorate in social welfare from CUNY, Georgianna Glose studied institutional racism facing African-American Catholic nuns. She applied that learning to running a social services nonprofit—one that stayed open during the pandemic to aid vulnerable Brooklynites. She died at age 73 from complications of COVID-19.
MSW student Fatmata Britton and BSW student Shannon Lubin did their field placements this year with Silberman’s 
