Topic B: Person in you field that you admire.
Hi Bloggers, in this last blog I would like to talk to you about Lucia Sepúlveda, who was director of the School of Social Work at the University of Chile when it was closed in 1973 by the Military Dictatorship and she was president of the College of Social Workers for two periods, achieving during her administration the recovery of the university rank of our profession. Personally, I admire her because she collaborated in the defense of human rights at a time when few did so because she put her own life at risk. Furthermore, she never abandoned her profession even when they wanted to censor her, witnessing terrible events but never losing her focus and motivation. I met her because I read a very interesting book by her for one of my final projects in the field "Fundamentals of Social Work". That book taught me a lot about the birth and development of social work in our country and made me discover the great historical weight and ethical commitment that this profession has w...