Program Manager,
McLean Hospital's Waverly Place
Belmont, Massachusetts
Dana Holley started at the SSW in 1976, attending full time while caring for her two grade-school children. "I chose Simmons because I felt it would give me a high-quality advanced clinical degree. It turned out to be the best decision I ever made." After graduating, Holley worked for 23 years at the Somerville Mental Health Clinic. She left to help start McLean Hospital's Waverly Place.
Founder/CEO
Osiris Group Mental Health Provider
Roxbury, Massachusetts
Larry Higginbottom says he "lucked out" his first term at the SSW, securing a course load with the school's "heavy hitters"—including Professor Ann Fleck-Henderson, whose Human Behavior in the Social Environment class introduced him to the idea of cultural approaches to social work and sparked an idea for a business model that would eventually come to fruition.
Carol Gomez '07 MSW/Certificate in Urban Leadership
Founding Director, Matahari: Eye of the Day and
the Trafficking Victims Outreach and Services Network, Boston, Massachusetts
As founding director, Carol Gomez works to end human trafficking and gender-based violence. Regarding her master'€™s in social work from Simmons: "I was immediately impressed by the diverse faculty, the sense of community, and the curriculum, which incorporated non-traditional ways of looking at clinical work and emphasized social action."
Clinical Social Worker,
Children's Hospital Emergency Department
Boston, Massachusetts
Cecily Donegan, a 2009 SSW graduate, just got her dream job. Cecily is now a clinical social worker at Boston's Children's Hospital emergency department. Two years ago Cecily relocated from the West Coast to attend graduate school; she left a job as a residential counselor at a therapeutic boarding school in Oregon to study clinical social work at Simmons School of Social Work.
