What Our Members Say

Has the SSSP made a lasting impact in your life? Consider submitting a testimony to be shared on our website by emailing ssspgra@utk.edu. Check out President Noreen M. Sugrue’s testimony below and visit https://www.sssp1.org/index.cfm/m/576/locationSectionId/0/Member_Testimonials to hear from others.

“My earliest memory of SSSP is as a graduate student. It was an inviting and exciting place to be. It was a place where ideas based on scholarship were at the center of all discussions but most striking was that all the conversations included how to use our findings to make the world better. To this awe-struck graduate student, it was the most exciting thing ever – research findings were going to make the world more just and fairer.

Fast forward to 2021, after a stint working on Chicago’s west side, North Lawndale to be exact, 20 years as a faculty member, and now as Director of Research for The Latino Policy Forum in Chicago, I find myself not only using research to influence policy, but I am also honored to be the President of the organization that first showed me that research, activism, and change could and should be conjoined.”

Noreen M. Sugrue, The Latino Policy, SSSP President 2021-2022

Posted by Zaina Shams - Thursday, 08/26/2021, 03:42 PM - Comments - Category: Member News