Working Socially

It was a long and storied two years, but Leina's term at the National Association of Social Workers expired earlier this year. She thought she was done debating the place of social work in society. She thought she would no longer be taking those quarterly trips to Washington DC to meet. She thought she was out, but they pulled her back in.

Leina recieved notice that she was nominated to be a member of NASW's National Committee on Women's Issues. It is a three-year term, and Leina hopes it does not involve quite as many flights to DC. Who was she to decline? On a related note, she is suffering from exhaustion, but declined Erica's suggestion to take it easy on herself and get away from everyone--relax in Calistoga or Yosemite. She has already promised the San Francisco Asian Pacific Islander Social Working Group that she would give them a 15-minute speech on Saturday morning.