Success Stories

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Frank Farrow
Foundations and Philanthropy
Farrow has spent his career making big plans work at the community level through the Center for the Study of Social Policy.
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Lauren Feig
Violence Prevention and Interventions
Feig was a part of the Crown Family School Violence Prevention and Family Support programs of study and focused on the exploration of protective factors that buffer the impact of peer victimization on aggression; she plans to pursue a doctoral degree to further her studies in human development and looks forward to continuing her work with the Chicago Center for Youth Violence Prevention.
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Lindsey Feldman
Veterans
Feldman is a recipient of the Crown Family School's 2022 Milestone Achievement Award and works as a clinical social worker at the Phoenix VA Health Care System.
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Sunny Fischer
Foundations and Philanthropy
Fischer worked with the Sophia Fund and the Chicago Foundation for Women before becoming the executive director of the Richard H. Driehaus Foundation. She is a co-creator of the National Public Housing Museum (NPHM)
Mental Health
Forman is a recipient of the Crown Family School's Distinctive Innovation in Social Services Award and is the executive director of the Grand Avenue Club, a part of the international network of models focused on relationship and community building, rather than pathological diagnosis.
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Aracelli Francis
Academia, Children, Adolescents, and Families
Francis implemented child care service reform in her home of the Virgin Islands and as a professor made efforts to improve diversity and cultural understanding in higher education.
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MA, MDiv, AM ’00, D. HCML (Cand) 2025 Milestone Achievement Award Recipient Executive Vice President and Chief Mission Integration Officer, Trinity Health
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Callie Freitag
Government and Politics
Freitag has a background in mathematics and experience in the US Department of Human Services Budget Office as an analyst. She is interested in work in applied policy research.
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Alexandra Frenn
Social Sector Leadership and Nonprofit Management
Frenn worked as a case manager in the admissions department at the Mercy Home for Boys and Girls, a residential facility for young men and women between the ages of 12 and 24, after graduation. While in this role, she commits to community outreach and resource distribution to youth in need of shelter, healthcare, education, clinical treatment, athletic opportunities, faith-based connection, and other specialized supports.
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Rose Gallagher
Social Sector Leadership and Nonprofit Management
Gallagher had been a partner in a large law firm before deciding to pursue a degree from Crown Family School. Now she is a senior associate, foundation relations at the Ounce of Prevention Fund, which focuses on supporting early childhood experiences for children in poverty in Chicago.
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Policy, Substance Abuse
Senior Policy Analyst, Office of National Drug Control Policy Executive Office of the President
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Rory Gilbert
Mental Health
Gilbert co-founded The Police Assistance Center, also known as St. Michael’s House, a nonprofit counseling facility for police officers and their families.
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Karen Gilman
Healthcare, Community Health, and Advocacy
Gilman is a bi-lingual clinical social worker who works with parents of developmentally disabled children up to age three at the Exceptional Children’s Foundation Early Start program.
Academia, Policy, Government and Politics
Jeffrey is an Affiliated Professor at McCourt and a Professor of Practice at Virginia Tech. He has held various social public policy positions in the private sector and has worked in emergency management at the federal government level.
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Robyn Golden
Older Adults
Golden is the director of older adult programs at Rush University Medical Center, has served as the chair of the American Society on Aging, and has co-founded several coalitions including the National Coalition on Care Coordination.
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Arlene Gordon
Foundations and Philanthropy
Gordon, for whom the Arlene R. Gordon Research Institute is named, started at Lighthouse International as a Senior Social Worker in 1965 and retired in 1990 after serving as Associate Executive Director in differing leadership roles for seventeen years.
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Karen Kozlowski Graham
Mental Health
Graham is the co-founder and CEO of SignOn: A Sign Language Interpreting Resource, and is also a transition consultant, leadership coach and psychotherapist at Karen Kozlowski Graham, LCSW.
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Valerie Guerra
Immigrants and Refugees
Guerra completed an Albert Schweitzer Fellowship in which she implemented a therapy project centered on music as a medium for emotion expression and regulation for traumatized refugee and immigrant children; she has continued her fieldwork and now conducts individual and group therapy at Heartland international FACES refugee mental health clinic for adults.