Administration

Darlyne Bailey, M.S., Ph.D. (she/her)

Professor and Dean Emeritus of the Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research of Bryn Mawr College, Founder and Executive Director of the Social Justice Initiative, and Special Assistant to the President for Community Partnerships 

Dr. Darlyne Bailey is the Founder and Executive Director of the Social Justice Initiative, what she describes as her "dream come true of making connections guided by love." Recognized in 2017 by the National Association of Social Workers Foundation as an “NASW Social Work Pioneer," and an honored recipient of the 2021 NASW-PA “Phyllis Black Lifetime Achievement Award,” Darlyne remains committed to utilizing individual, organizational, and community-level knowledge and skills to co-create socially just multiculturally humble systems. In 2023, Darlyne was awarded one of the highest honors at Bryn Mawr College, the Faculty McPherson Award for Excellence.

Darlyne is actively engaged in participatory teaching and research, and serves on several local and national boards, including: the Wisconsin home of the Suzanne and Richard Pieper Family Foundation, the national Alliance of Leadership Fellows, and the New York-based Renaissance Center. She also chairs the Board of Trustees of the online associate-degree granting Ultimate Medical Academy in Tampa, FL, and the National Human Services Assembly in Washington, D.C. Darlyne is also editor-in-chief of the 28 years-old journal Reflections: Narratives of Professional Helping. Initiated in 2013, for the past 12 years Darlyne has continued to co-lead (with Hunter College Social Work Professor Emerita Terry Mizrahi) the still national yet, as of January 2023, the 501(c)(3) “Special Commission to Advance Macro Practice Social Work.” In 2018, the Special Commission partnered with the Council on Social Work Education to produce the first-ever Specialized Practice Curricular Guide for Macro Social Work Practice. Most recently, Darlyne served as lead co-editor-in-chief (with Dr. Mizrahi and a team of associate and consulting editors) of the Encyclopedia of Macro Social Work, an inaugural 3-volume and online publication of Oxford University Press and the National Association of Social Workers Press.

Sarah Spath, M.S.S, M.F.A. (she/her)

Director of Programs

Sarah Spath holds a Master of Social Service degree from the Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research of Bryn Mawr College, and a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from Antioch University Los Angeles. Sarah has worked in a variety of educator roles at the college level, including teaching writing courses and running a peer tutoring program; and in a variety of direct service roles in the human services sector, including as a peer supporter and psychiatric rehabilitation practitioner. She currently Chairs the Ferns Peer-Run Respite Council, a grass-roots organization working to establish this model for voluntary, nonclinical, and community-based crisis support in southeastern Pennsylvania. Sarah is interested in how the power of dialogue and mutuality can promote healing both through one-on-one relationships and at the organizational and community level. She started with the SJI while still a student, working as a Graduate Assistant. In 2023 she received the Dr. Kevin J. Robinson Award from the GSSWSR, an award that was established in memory of Dr. Robinson and his commitment to honesty, integrity, equality and fairness, and a commitment to social justice.

Gwenn Prinbreck, P.C.C., M.S., M.S.S., L.S.W. (she/her)

Project Coordinator

After almost a decade of building her own business to support people as a life coach, Gwenn returned to graduate school to broaden her ability to support resilience and possibility in all people. She completed her graduate work at the Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research of Bryn Mawr College, and is now a licensed social worker and International Coaching Federation (ICF) certified professional life coach. She comes to this work after being involved in environmental social change work. 

As a social work clinician, Gwenn brings a trauma-informed lens and an attention to the impacts of social injustice to her practice. She enjoys working with individuals, youth and their families, and groups using mindfulness-based and experiential modalities. Gwenn currently serves on the Philadelphia Area Group Psychotherapy Society, works as a clinician at Main Line Therapy Solutions and continues her coaching business, all while seeking ways to bring needed services to those people and communities that have been historically discriminated against and underserved. 

Isabel Sangeun Lee, Ph.D. (C). MSW, LSW, CCM (she/her)

Graduate Assistant 

Isabel Sangeun Lee is a licensed social worker (LSW) and a certified case manager (CCM). She is also a doctoral student at the Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research of Bryn Mawr College. Since 2009, she has worked extensively with Asian immigrant populations. Isabel has published numerous academic journal articles and presented nationally and internationally on anti-racist social work practices for non-dominant racial/ethnic people. She received the 2020 McPherson Presidential Award for Excellence and the 2023 Community Building Honor Roll for her services to the college, and the Rivits Award for her doctoral dissertation proposal during her doctoral training. 

Isabel was a national policy fellow at the Network for Social Work Management (NSWM) in 2019. She joined the Campus Partnership for Equity and Anti-Racism (CPEAR) at Bryn Mawr College with President Kim Cassidy in 2020. She is also the first doctoral student board member of the Special Commission to Advance Macro Social Work, which is comprised of social work faculty, staff, students, and community-based practitioners who promote macro social work through education, research, and practice.