Abigail Eiler, MSW ' 06, is a licensed clinical social worker, serving as the Assistant Director of Athletic Counseling in the Athletic Department at the University of Michigan. Until recently, she also held an appointment as a clinical social worker, scholar level, and behavioral health educator for Michigan Medicine, with emphasis on the implementation of Behavioral Health Collaborative Care in Ambulatory Care. Abigail is a Clinical Assistant Professor at the U-M School of Social Work. She has taught at the SSW since 2014 and has been a Field Instructor since 2010. She has supported over $8,000,000 in research efforts over the past eight years with emphasis on improving mental health screening and services for American Indian/Alaskan Native youth ages 10-24. Her clinical and macro experiences are driven by her commitment to child welfare and include family support services, trauma-informed care, treating children with attachment disorders, cultural humility, reducing recidivism in the juvenile justice system through restorative justice practices and social work and sports. She deeply values teaching about social justice and implementing its principles into her clinical practice.

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“The earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it.” — Chief Joseph

“It does not require many words to speak the truth.” — Chief Joseph

Dwight Wilson (He/Him) - Police Oversight Task Force member. Dwight is a father, a husband, an educator, and a member of Ann Arbor Friends Meeting. He earned a Master of Divinity degree from Bangor Theological Seminary. Dwight has served as Headmaster of Friends School in Detroit, President of the Independent Teaching Project, and Founding Executive Director of New Jersey SEEDS. He is currently active as a Commissioner on the Human Rights Commission (HRC) and as the Chair of the HRC Subcommittee on Police Oversight (Ann Arbor); he volunteers with Meals on Wheels and the Mott Children’s Hospital Pediatric Cardiac Ward. He is the author of multiple volumes, including historical fiction series titled Esi Was My Mother.

Lauren Tatarsky (She/Her) - Police Oversight Task Force member
Lauren is a counselor, an Interfaith minister, and long-time social justice and environmental activist. During the last 10 years, she has worked for numerous grassroots agencies promoting equitable and sustainable food access, racial justice, and youth empowerment. She has a Bachelor’s Degree in International Studies and Sociology from American University and a Masters in Spiritual Guidance from Sofia University.

Vidhya Aravind (She/Her) is a South Indian trans woman grad student who studies queer conflict on social media. As an activist, she is invested in trans and racial equity particularly around labor (with Graduate Employees' Organization 3550), healthcare, government bureaucracy, and the carceral state.

Sargeant Donovan-Smith (She/Her) - Collective Against White Supremacy. Sargeant is a graduate student in Anthropology and History at the University of Michigan and a local organizer. A former math teacher, her research focuses on the history of higher education in Liberia (where she taught mathematics) and the ways in which people seek to transform themselves through post-secondary education. Sargeant spent the last six months fighting for police oversight in Ann Arbor (as part of a large coalition of organizers), and in 2018, Sargeant was an organizer with the #StopSpencer coalition and helped plan the History Department's Disrupting White Supremacy teach-in.

Matthew Haugen (He/Him) - Huron Valley DSA. Matt is co-chair of the Huron Valley Democratic Socialists of America and working on an MS in Natural Resources and Environment, with a focus in Environmental Policy and Planning, at UM's School for Environment and Sustainability.

The Michigan Student Power Network is an association of young people in the state of Michigan formed to coordinate action, share skills, and build statewide unity around social justice causes. It was started in 2014 and currently is operating on campuses across Michigan. The Power Network works to connect student struggles across campuses, issues, and identities, in order to share skills and build statewide movements capable of effecting progressive change. MSPN uses a variety of tactics and strategies to effect change in Michigan and on our campuses, including direct member education, voter engagement, issue-based campaign organizing, and direct action.

“If you have come here to help me, you are wasting your time. But if you have come because your liberation is bound up with mine, then let us work together.” — Lilla Watson

Erin Khang received her MSSA social work degree from the Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences at Case Western Reserve University. After approximately a decade working as a clinical social worker in Pediatric Nephrology, she took on the role of project manager within the health system social work department. That role afforded opportunities to lead diversity, equity and inclusion departmental and institutional initiatives as well as provide subject matter expertise as the department’s electronic health record representative. In 2016 she became the Director of Graduate Social Work Education at Michigan Medicine and an adjunct professor at the UM School of Social Work in 2017. In addition to this work, she is currently one of the Pediatric Social Work managers overseeing staff in the C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital.

“You can’t refuse to meet because that might compromise the purity of your position. The value of social movements and activism is to get you at the table, get you in the room, and then start trying to figure out how is this problem going to be solved. You then have a responsibility to prepare an agenda that is achievable—that can institutionalize the changes you seek—and to engage the other side.” — President Obama (2016) to BLM activists

BYP100 Detroit is an organization of 18-35 year old Black Detroiters focused on solving issues that affect the most marginalized members of the Black community in Detroit with the goal of Black social, political and economic liberation. Our work prioritizes women, members of the LGBTQIA community, persons with disabilities, undocumented folks, those suffering from extreme food and housing insecurity, and all Black Detroiters standing at the intersections of these identities. Arthur Bowman III, Chair of Policy and Political Education Committee, will represent BYP100 Detroit.

“There are no single issue struggles. Because we don't lead single issue lives." — Audre Lorde

SpeakOut is a youth-driven group that combats youth homelessness within Washtenaw County and stands to uphold the voice of young people by empowering youth in their housing, financial, and personal battles. This goal is achieved actively by theatrical, political, educational, and social awareness.

“When the whole world is silent, even one voice becomes powerful.” — Malala Yousafzai

Megan Shaughnessy-Mogill (she/her) is the embedded counselor at the University of Michigan’s School of Social Work.  Megan received her Master’s of Social Work at Smith College, and Megan’s past experiences include being a clinical social worker at an elementary school, a clinical counselor at Eastern Michigan University and Simmons College, and engaging in continuous social justice advocacy.  Megan’s professional interests include trauma and resilience, feminist and relational therapy, and restorative justice.