More than seven million people in the U.S. and 475,000 Texans have intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD). Sandy Magaña, Ph.D., MSW, serves as the Professor in Autism and Neurodevelopmental Disabilities at the Steve Hicks School of Social Work (SHS) and Executive Director of The Texas Center for Disability Studies –… read more
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Thea Posel: Law and Social Work Converge in Mitigation Services
Thea Posel, J.D., was fascinated by crime from a young age. Growing up in the state of Washington, she cut out photos and stories about crimes from magazines and pasted them into notebooks. After high school, she worked at a public defender’s office while taking community college classes in criminal… read more
New Video Series, Telling Our Stories, Puts Faculty in the Spotlight
High-ranking academic programs, renowned research, and an interdisciplinary approach to solving some of humanity’s greatest challenges already has placed the Steve Hicks School of Social Work (SHS) in the spotlight. With the recent launch of Telling Our Stories, a video series created by filmmaker Vanessa Reiser, SHS is shining a… read more
