We are critical social workers. The ultimate goal of critical theory research is to help the public become aware of the sources of oppression; the data fuels the fire for radical action. For centuries, research has been an exclusive undertaking: reserving its most crucial findings for elite academic professionals, who lock this knowledge up with a hegemonic key. 

According to the Silberman School of Social Work at Hunter College, “Our student body, field agencies, and alumni are the primary social work workforce of the public human service departments and not-for-profit agencies in New York City… our mission expresses our commitment to graduate excellently prepared and civically engaged social workers for New York diverse communities” (Silberman School of Social Work at Hunter College, 2021). 

We are living through a global disaster together, which has exacerbated the deeply rooted inequities that already exist within vulnerable communities. In order to provide those “engaged services” as social workers for these communities; we must ourselves feel held, taken care of, heard, and supported by the institution that claims us. Through our research we have found that many of us ARE NOT OK. Many of us do not feel supported, held, or heard by the Silberman School of Social Work.

With this website, it is our intention to throw away that lock and hegemonic key, and to model one way of producing open source knowledge. We are Silberman’s students:  hear our stories, read our data, reflect, learn, join, engage, and take action with us!