- Alan Bennett
Alan Bennett (born May 9, 1934) is an English author and actor noted for his work, his boyish appearance and his sonorous Yorkshire accent.
- Jonathan Kozol
Jonathan Kozol is the conscience of American public education. The prolific author comes to Seattle's Central Library on Saturday to discuss his latest book, "Letters to a Young Teacher."
- Edith Abbott
Edith Abbott (September 26, 1876 - July 28, 1957) was a social worker, educator, and author. Abbott was born in Grand Island, Nebraska. Her younger sister was Grace Abbott. In 1893, Abbott graduated from Brownell Hall, a girls' boarding school in Omaha. However, her family could not afford to send her to college, so she began teaching high school in Grand Island.
- Anna Lo
Anna Lo, MLA is an Alliance Party politician from Northern Ireland. Born in Hong Kong, of Chinese ethnicity, Lo was elected to the Northern Ireland Assembly for South Belfast in the 2007 assembly election. She was the first ethnic minority politician elected at a national level in Northern Ireland, and the first politician born in East Asia elected to any national parliament or assembly in the United Kingdom.
- Margaret Mitchell
Margaret Anne Lauren Mitchell (born July 17 1925) is a social activist and was the New Democratic Party (NDP) Member of Parliament (MP)for Vancouver East from 1979 until 1993. A social worker by profession, she was first elected to the Canadian House of Commons in the 1979 federal election. In 1980, she voted against a pay raise for MPs, and subsequently donated her additional pay to charity establishing the Margaret Mitchell Fund for Women.
- Bernard Cornfeld
Bernard "Bernie" Cornfeld (Istanbul 17 August 1927 - London 27 February 1995) was a prominent businessman and international financier who sold investments in US mutual funds. He was born in Turkey. When he moved to the US, he first worked as a social worker but became a mutual fund salesman in the 1950s.
- Andy Stern
Andy Stern is the president of the 1.9 million member Service Employees International Union (SEIU), the fastest-growing union in North America.
- Lillian Wald
Lillian D. Wald (1867-1940) was an American nurse and social worker, most active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Wald was born into a comfortable, German-Jewish middle-class family in Rochester, New York. (Her father was an optical dealer.) She attended Miss Cruttenden's English-French Boarding and Day School for Young Ladies, and upon graduation, tried to enter Vassar but was denied, as the school thought her too young, at 16. Several years later, however, …
- Larry Sanders
Larry Sanders (born in New York) is an Oxfordshire County Councillor. He has lived in Oxford since 1969. He was trained professionally as a social worker and lawyer. He is an employee and trustee of the Oxfordshire Carers' Forum and Oxfordshire Community Care Rights since 1996. His main focuses in politics are social and health care services. Elected in 2005, he became the Green Party councillor group leader in the Oxfordshire County Council.
- Kazuo Ishiguro
Kazuo Ishiguro (b. 1954 in Nagasaki, Japan) moved with his family to England in 1960, when he was a young child, after his oceanographer father Shizuo Ishiguro was employed by the British government. Kazuo Ishiguro 's Japanese parents believed that they would soon return to Japan and prepared their son to resume life in his native land. However, they stayed in Britain, and Ishiguro grew up straddling two cultures, the Japan of his parents and his adopted country England.
- John Austin
John Eric Austin, formerly known as 'John Austin-Walker', (born August 21, 1944, in Blaby, Leicestershire) is a British Member of Parliament, first elected for Woolwich 1992-7, then for Erith and Thamesmead from 1997-present after boundary changes. He is a member of the Labour Party. He worked as a social worker and was leader of Greenwich council before entering Parliament. Austin is a member of the left-wing Socialist Campaign Group.
- Ron Dellums
I apologize in advance for the length of this post. I wanted to address the Ron Dellums's State of the City address fairly and completely. Below I have noted (in order) every point the Mayor hit during his speech, followed by relevant supplementary information and/or my thoughts on the topic. I considered breaking it up into a few different posts, but then I decided that spreading it out would make it seem like I'm just beating up on Dellums non-stop, and that isn't my intention.
- Jennifer Jackson
Jennifer Jackson (born February 6, 1945 in Chicago) is an American model who was chosen as "Playboy" magazine's Playmate of the month for the March 1965 issue. She was the first African American Playmate of the Month and was photographed by Pompeo Posar. Jackson's selection as a Playmate caused much controversy at the time, with Hugh Hefner and the magazine receiving a flood of letters, not all supportive, regarding the decision.
- Jane Kennedy
Jane Elizabeth Kennedy (born 4 May 1958, as Jane Elizabeth Hodgson) is a Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom, and also the current Financial Secretary to the Treasury. She was born in Whitehaven, Cumbria and trained as a social worker at Liverpool University. She worked in social care for Liverpool City Council from 1979 to 1988 when she became a trade union organiser for the National Union of Public Employees.
- Catie Curtis
Catie Curtis (born 1965) is an American singer-songwriter. She was raised in the small city of Saco, Maine, and played her first performances there. She was originally a drummer, but later changed instruments to acoustic guitar. After leaving Saco, she went to Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. While at college, she became involved in the local coffeehouse circuit.
- Eric Walters
Eric Walters is one of Canada's leading authors of young adult fiction, and the only three-time winner of the Silver Birch Award (a children's book award in the province of Ontario, created in 1994 by the Ontario Library Association). He was born in Toronto raised up in Toronto’s west end, which is a rather poor section of Toronto. When Eric was about 10 to 15-years-old, he wanted to be a teacher; at the time there were few jobs for teachers, …
- Bonnie Brown
M. A. Bonnie Brown (born March 2, 1941 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada) is the Member of Parliament for the riding of Oakville and a member of the Liberal Party of Canada. Brown first won a seat in the Canadian House of Commons in the 1993 Federal Election in the Oakville-Milton riding. After Oakville-Milton was divided into two ridings, Oakville and Halton, she has been re-elected in Oakville in 1997, 2000, 2004 and 2006.
- Scott La Rock
Scott Sterling, better known by his stage name Scott La Rock, was the original DJ for the hip hop group Boogie Down Productions. Sterling, a social worker, met rapper KRS-One in 1986 at the Covenant House group home in the Bronx where KRS was staying. The pair, together with rapper D-Nice, formed Boogie Down Productions. Their 1987 debut album, "Criminal Minded", was an instant hit, and has since appeared on numerous "greatest albums" lists.
- Bill Goldberg
Bill Goldberg, M.S.W., L.C.S.W. is a social worker and researcher of cults. He has a private practice and counsels families of cult members. Goldberg also works for the Rockland County, New York Department of Mental Health - he directs three out-patient programs. Goldberg has been invited to testify before several state legislatures on regulations affecting residents of Adult Homes as well as on cult-related matters.
- Virginia Bottomley
Virginia Hilda Brunette Maxwell Bottomley, Baroness Bottomley of Nettlestone PC DL, "née" Virginia Garnett (born 12 March 1948 in Scotland), is a British Conservative Party politician. She was a Member of Parliament (MP) in the House of Commons from 1984 to 2005 and was considered to be a 'One Nation Conservative'. Virginia is a Life Member of the Tory Reform Group.
- Mary Parker Follett
Mary Parker Follett (1868-1933) was an American social worker, consultant, and author of books on democracy, human relations, and management. She worked as a management and political theorist, introducing such phrases as "conflict resolution," "authority and power," and "the task of leadership." Follett was born into an affluent Quaker family in Massachusetts and spent much of her early life there. In 1898 she graduated from Radcliffe College.
- Mary Neal
Mary Neal CBE (5 June 1860-22 June 1944), born Clara Sophia Neal, was an English social worker and collector of English folk dances. She was born in Edgbaston, Birmingham to a prosperous family, but in 1888 began voluntary social work among the poor of Soho and Marylebone in London, adopting the name "Mary". She began a girls' club – the Espérance Club – and seeing how much the girls enjoyed folk dances inspired her to begin collecting them.
- Ansar Burney
Ansar Burney, after 16 years of campaigning, was successful in finally convincing the governments of Qatar and the UAE to ban the use of child camel jockeys
- Frances Fitzgerald
Frances Fitzgerald is an Irish Fine Gael politician. She was a TD for the constituency of Dublin South East from 1992–2002. A former social worker, Fitzgerald was first elected to Dáil Éireann in the 1992 general election and retained her seat until losing it at the 2002 general election. She then stood for election to the 22nd Seanad on the Administrative Panel, but was unsuccessful.
- Billy Williams
Billy Williams was a singer, who had a hugely successful cover recording of Fats Waller's "I'm Gonna Sit Right Down And Write Myself A Letter" in 1957. His trademark hook for his songs was to shout "Oh, Yeah" at the end of lyrics. He was the lead singer of The Charioteers between 1930 and 1950, when he formed his own Billy Williams Quartet with Eugene Dixon, Claude Riddick and John Ball.
- Michael Lynn
Michael Thomas Lynn, also known as Abaddon (after the biblical demon), was born in 1980 in Euless, Texas. He is an American computer security expert currently employed by Juniper Networks. Lynn was born on September 6, 1980, the youngest child of four. His parents are Thomas Lynn, a social worker and Baptist minister, and Nancy Taylor, an appeals lawyer. Lynn graduated from Trinity High School in Euless, Texas, …
- Lucienne Robillard
Lucienne Robillard, PC, MP (born June 16, 1945 in Montreal, Quebec) is a Canadian politician and a member of the Liberal Party of Canada. She sits in the Canadian House of Commons as Member of Parliament for the riding of Westmount—Ville-Marie in Montreal. Robillard had a career as a social worker before entering politics. In the Quebec election of 1989, she was elected to the Quebec National Assembly in the riding of Chambly as a member of the Liberal Party of Quebec.
- Hilary Mantel
Hilary Mary Mantel CBE (born 6 July 1952) is an English novelist. She is the author of nine acclaimed novels, a short story collection and a memoir, and was created a Commander of the British Empire (CBE) on 17 June 2006. Hilary Mantel was born in Glossop, north Derbyshire in 1952. She was educated at a convent school in Cheshire and went on to the LSE and Sheffield University, where she studied law. After university she was briefly a social worker in a geriatric hospital, …
- Abigail Folger
Abigail Anne Folger was an American coffee heiress, debutante, socialite, volunteer social worker, civil rights devotee and member of the prominent United States Folger family. She was the great-great-granddaughter of J. A. Folger, the founder of Folgers Coffee.
- Richard Cloward
Richard A. Cloward (December 25 1926 - August 20 2001) was an American sociologist and political activist. He influenced the Strain theory of criminal behavior and the concept of anomie, and was a primary motivator for the passage of the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 known as "Motor Voter". He taught at Columbia University for 47 years. Born in Rochester, New York, Cloward served as an ensign in the U.S. Navy in World War II from 1944 to 1946.
- Mary Coughlan
Mary Coughlan is a senior Irish Fianna Fáil politician. She is currently a Teachta Dála for Donegal South West and Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries & Food. She has previously served as Minister for Social & Family Affairs. Mary Coughlan was born in Donegal town in 1965. She was educated at the Ursuline Convent in Sligo and University College Dublin. She briefly worked as a social worker before becoming involved in politics.
- Richard Titmuss
Richard Titmuss (1907 - 1973) was a pioneering British social researcher and teacher. He founded the academic discipline of "Social Administration" (now largely known in universities as Social Policy) and held the founding chair in the subject at the LSE. His books and articles of the 1950s helped to define the characteristics of Britain's post WWII welfare state and of a caring welfare society in ways that parallel the contributions of Gunnar Myrdal in Sweden.
- Ralph Waite
Ralph Waite is an American actor. His most famous role was John Walton Sr. on the 1970s CBS program "The Waltons". He also more recently appeared on the HBO series Carnivàle. He is the oldest of five children. Before becoming an actor he graduated from Bucknell University located in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania with a B.A. degree, and tried several occupations such as social worker, He received his graduate degree from Yale University School of Divinity.
- Muzaffar Ali
Muzaffar Ali (born 21 October, 1944; Lucknow) is an Indian film-maker, a fashion designer, a poet, an artist, a music-lover, a revivalist, a social worker. In 2005 he was awarded the Padma Shri for his achievements. His son Shaad Ali is a film director.
- Steve McCabe
Stephen James McCabe (born 4 August 1955) known as Steve McCabe, is a British Labour Party politician. He is the member of Parliament for Birmingham Hall Green, and was first elected in 1997. Born in the shipbuilding town of Port Glasgow on the River Clyde, Steve McCabe, attended the town's local secondary school before studying at the Moray House College (later named Moray House School of Education) in Edinburgh, …
- Dan Norris
Dan Norris (born January 28, 1960) is the Labour Member of Parliament for Wansdyke in England.
- Selma Fraiberg
Selma Fraiberg (1918 - 1981) was a child psychoanalyst, author and social worker. She studied infants with congenital blindness in the 1970s. She found that blind babies had three problems to overcome: learning to recognize parents from sound alone, learning about permanence of objects, acquiring a typical or healthy self image. She also found that vision acts as a way of pulling other sensory modalities together and with out sight babies are delayed.
- Cathy Tyson
Cathy Tyson (born June 121965 in Liverpool) is an English actress.
- Amy Watkins
Amy Watkins (1973-1999) was a social worker from Topeka, Kansas, who was murdered while walking down the street on March 8, 1999, in Brooklyn, New York. Her death sparked widespread dismay in New York City, where the murder rate had been steadily dropping since 1990, and days later 300 marchers expressed their grief with a candlelight march on her Prospect Heights street. Mayor Rudy Giuliani attended her wake. Watkins graduated from the University of Kansas in 1996, …
- Inayat Hussain Bhatti
Inayat Hussain Bhatti (1928-1999) was a multidimensional icon of Pakistan. His body of work includes contributions as a singer, actor, producer, director, script writer, social worker, columnist, religious scholar and a protagonist of the development of Punjabi language and literature.