Grant Pike ’18MSW ’24DSW shares how the vitality of nature can be combined with social work and social justice, with a positive impact on humans and the planet.

• LGBTQIA+
• Online Student
• Social Justice & Advocacy

Social Work major Maggie Spadaro ’25 recently published a children’s book that fosters awareness and empathy regarding individuals experiencing homelessness. We spoke with her about this unique project, Simmons’ vital community, and her social justice-related aspirations.

• Online Student
• Social Justice & Advocacy

Jessie Hansen ’26DSW recently started the program The Kindest Kid in America, which awards young students who are exemplars of kindness. Hansen is a representative of Think Kindness, an organization that aims to promote acts of kindness in school and communities.

• Careers and Internships
• Leadership
• Online Student

Simmons is pleased to welcome over 371 first-year undergraduate students and 800 new graduate students to the start of the 2024–2025 academic year.

• Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
• First-generation Student
• International Student
• Online Student

Emily (Orlando) Cane ’23MPH was interviewed by Hospice News about how changes in reproductive health laws have impacted perinatal hospice care.

• Online Student
• Science and Technology
• Social Justice & Advocacy

Abby (Bent) McKie ’00 ’02HS (Nutrition) and Dana Bent ’24MSW share their Simmons connection.

• Commencement
• Online Student

During high school, Devin Ryan ’21 toured Simmons, where they later majored in Biology. Meanwhile, someone close to Ryan was also inspired by that campus tour: their mother, Misty Neader ’25MSW.

• Careers and Internships
• Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
• Online Student
• Research

Samantha Normilus ’19BSN, ’26MSN has received the Excellent in Nursing Practice Award from the New England Regional Black Nurses Association, Inc. (NERBNA). A Dana-Farber Cancer Institute nurse who is pursuing the online MSN-FNP program at Simmons, Normilus spoke with us about being a NERBNA awardee, the rewards of oncology nursing, and the supportive community she found at Simmons.

• Awards and Honors
• Careers and Internships
• Mentorship
• Online Student

This fall, Simmons students from the Social Action Leaders course are channeling their academic studies into advocacy. We spoke with students Felipa Arevalo '25, Lisa deRosier ’24, and Rashida Alisa Hagakore ’24 about their passion for experiential service learning and their conception of good leadership.

• Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
• Leadership
• Online Student
• Social Justice & Advocacy

Recent SLIS graduate Danita Callender ’23MS was selected by faculty to receive the Kenneth R. Shaffer Outstanding Student Award, which acknowledges a student with impressive scholarship and leadership potential. We caught up with Callender for her thoughts on her time...

• Awards and Honors
• Online Student