Academics

UChicago

The University of Chicago
School of Social Service Administration

AM (Master’s of Social Work) – 6/2022

My coursework at SSA focused on policy, financial management of nonprofits, working with data, and consideration of implementation theories.

UIUC

The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
School of Social Work

Bachelor’s of Social Work – 12/2019

I felt more at home at SSW than anywhere prior. While I both worked and studied full-time while there, that didn’t stop me from growing a love of research. I also delivered the BSW Responder at our graduation.

IECC

Illinois Eastern Community Colleges

Associate of Art &
Associate of Arts & Sciences – 5/2017

Is listing IECC after the others a little like listing the Dallas Morning News after the New York Times and Washington Post? Maybe, but IECC helped get me to the others, too.

Research & Editorial Experience

Advocates’ Forum—2022

Editorial Board (Editor-in-Chief: Mansi Mehta; Faculty Advisor: Janelle Goodwill, PhD)

Read the Letter from the Editors, by Mansi, here.

Mission statement: Advocates’ Forum is an academic journal that explores implications of clinical social work practice, social issues, administration, and public politics linked to the social work profession. The journal is published by the students of the University of Chicago Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice (formerly, School of Social Service Administration). On the editorial board, I participated in the selection, review, and editing of the 2022 issue.

The Relationship Between 9th Grade Students’ Social Skills & Internalizing Problems by Free-and-Reduced Lunch Status

Bates, T., Tan, K., Shin, E.

Journal of Undergraduate Social Work Research Vol. 4 No. 1 (2020) | Read it here.

This research grew from the analysis presented in the 2018 Undergraduate Research Symposium Oral Presentation, exploring the interaction between social skills and FRL status to predict internalizing problems in 10th grade.

Promoting Racial Healing through a Restorative Approach to Social and Emotional Learning

PI: Dr. Kevin Tan & Dr. Durriyyah Kemp

Research in progress. On this project, I was a Research Assistant facilitating focus groups of parents and educators. The research explores the impact of the presidential election on the social & emotional well-being of young people.

Funded by the Illinois Department of Human Services with the Chicago Community Trust.

How do Social Skills Relate to Mental Health & Social-economic Status among High School Students?

Bates, T., Tan, K., Shin, E.

Undergraduate Research Symposium (April 2019) Oral Presentation | Info here.

Journal of Undergraduate Social Work Research (JUSWR)

I served as a junior editor for numbers 1 and 2 of Volume 3 in 2019. Rebecca Dohleman Hawley, MSW, was the Senior Editor, and Dr. Janet Carter-Black was the faculty advisor.