“I don’t disparage the really important, gifted clinical work… but the danger of understanding social work interventions as clinical and individual is that… We wind up trying to fix people, instead of trying to fix systems that box them often into utterly unworkable problems.”

“What are we doing now to be able to create a more just, caring, and compassionate society on my block, in my neighborhood, and in my city? And that should always be the discussion in policy, research, and every community intervention that we create.”

“It's an amorphous loss that other people can't see and they can't touch and they can't identify with. It's a prospective grief versus a retrospective grief because we're grieving over the hopes and wishes and dreams for the future…. so it becomes so much harder to grieve.”

“We need the magic of community [to address the issue of brain health], not the magic of pills.”

“I don't see my White colleagues talking about racial trauma. And then when I bring it up, it's like that aha moment... And if we don't talk about racial trauma with Black clients, how are we going to talk about regular trauma?”

“I'm very interested in helping physicians understand the big questions of what it means to be human, what it means to be a physician, and what it means to lead a good life in an effort to ensure, not only that all patients are treated with respect and dignity, but also that the practitioners themselves can practice self-care that helps their own mental health and also helps them flourish.”

“... Keep asking the tough questions and holding the child welfare system to a high standard, because both the families and the [social workers] need research that roots out the issues... and helps us work toward a fairer, more just child welfare system.”

"Social work is all about supporting people and navigating complex systems and supporting them with ensuring that they know their rights and enact their rights. [Voting] is an extension of that."

“At a certain point, the screen melts away… and [you're] in a genuine relationship with your therapist.”

“Trauma matters because trauma produces symptomology, both acute symptomology and deferred symptomology, and all of those symptoms impact learning and psychosocial development”