This document presents biographies of students who are currently enrolled in the Doctoral
Program at the Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, Case Western Reserve University. It
illustrates the breadth of experience that our students bring to their studies, including
experience in research, teaching, social work practice, and administration.
 EVELYN CASTRO-GUILLEN
(Cohort '05) is currently the director of Community-Based Programs for Five Acres in Pasadena, CA.
She is responsible for developing and overseeing community-based counseling programs, including
school-based, home-based, and family preservation services for children and adolescents who are
considered at-risk due to numerous psychosocial factors. In addition, Evelyn worked as a clinic
manager for a community mental health clinic in East Los Angeles, CA. Prior to that, she served as
an outpatient supervisor for an adult chronically mentally ill program, a clinical case manager for
a couple of private managed care companies, an outpatient psychiatric social worker/therapist for
Kaiser Health Maintenance Organization, and an outpatient therapist for a community mental health
clinic. Evelyn also has worked in private practice. Evelyn received her Bachelor of Arts in
Psychology in 1984, from Biola University in La Mirada, California, and her MSW in 1986, from UCLA.
In 1989, Evelyn received her license as a LCSW in California. Her research interests include
community-based social work with children and families, social welfare policy, and program
development.
MOON JEONG CHOI (Cohort ‘05), as an undergraduate, backpacked throughout Asia,
Europe and Australia and participated in international volunteering. These activities
motivated her to compare social systems in foreign countries and inspired her to seriously pursue
her newfound interest in social science. Choi earned a B.S. in biochemistry at Yonsei
University and a M.A. in social welfare at Seoul National University (SNU) in South Korea.
While earning her master's degree, Choi received field training at the Munchon regional social
service agency , a center dedicated to serving disadvantaged older persons. She also gained
research experience through an assistantship at SNU and an internship at the Korea Institute of
Health and Social Affair, a government-affiliated research center. Choi's areas of interest
are policy and aging. Currently, she is focusing on mobility in later life and the retirement
process in the political economy of aging. In her spare time, she likes to draw and paint
portraits.
MANDY FAUBLE (Cohort ‘05) is an outpatient therapist and clinical supervisor at
Safe Harbor Behavioral Health in Erie, PA, a community mental health center. Her practice focus and
interests at Safe Harbor include the following: art/creative therapies, wellness, pet facilitated
therapy, violence and trauma, generational patterns of abuse, critical incident stress management,
and international affairs/US foreign policy. She has enjoyed a number of opportunities to present
practice research findings at state and national conferences. She has co-written two clinical
practice manuals: Pet Facilitated Groups with Kids and Wellness Enlightens Lives. In addition,
Mandy is an adjunct faculty member at Mercyhurst College, where she teaches Sociology classes. She
has experience working in employee assistance programs, as well as in intensive in-home therapy
services for children who have been sexually victimized and/or sexually aggressive towards others.
Mandy graduated with a BA in Liberal Arts from Thomas Aquinas College in 1998, where she developed
a strong interest in philosophy – particularly in consideration of epistemology, scientific
methodology, and ethics/human behavior theories. In 2002, she received her MSW from Edinboro
University of Pennsylvania, where she researched the roles of stigma and social construction of
illness in developing legislative policies and social work practice strategies for people diagnosed
with serious mental illness. Mandy is chair of her local NASW division, and is also on the board of
the Inclusive Arts Collaborative – a collaboration of artists and social service partners, whose
aim is to increase access and integration in the arts for people with disabilities.
MALIKAH MARRUS (Cohort '05) currently works as a social worker for the Southwest
Juvenile Defender Center (SWJDC), a non-profit organization inHouston, Texas.
The center's mission is to ensure quality, holistic legal
representation for children.
Malikah provides assistance to local and student attorneys who
represent juveniles in delinquency and abuse cases.
She is responsible for providing alternative dispositional reports,
service plans, and home studies for the cases.
Prior to joining SWJDC, Malikah was an on-site coordinator and group
counselor for an inner-city elementary after-school program funded by the Hogg Foundation.
She provided group and individual counseling for at-risk children,
recruited mentors for the children, and did community outreach.
Malikah received her BA in History from Fisk University in 1992, and
did graduate work in American History at the University of California at Santa Barbara, where she
was a teaching assistant.
Malikah also created a program for females incarcerated in the
California Youth Authority.
This program taught inmates the life skills that they would need upon
their release.
Malikah garnered financial and other resource support from local
businesses.
She also lectured at the Lompoc Federal Penitentiary.
After moving to Houston, Malikah taught History at Houston Community
College, and received the Innovation in Teaching Award for an oral history project her students
completed.
In 2003, she presented at the First National Gerontological Social
Work Conference held in Atlanta, GA.
She received her MSW degree from University of Houston in 2003.
SUNGHEE NAM (Cohort '05) received her BSW degree from Ewha Womans University,
Seoul, Korea, in 2002. Assisting blind students in Seoul National School for the Blind, as a
volunteer worker for 3 years, she found that family is the most important group for children with
special needs. Her experiences with the blind brought forth an interest in encouraging parents of
children with disabilities to participate in the programs and services. She is also interested in
providing support for mothers of children with disabilities, who become burned out with day-to-day
responsibilities. She received her Master's of Social Work degree from Washington University, St.
Louis, MS., in 2005. She was employed as an intensive in-home service specialist for Edgewood
Children's Center (her field practicum) in St. Louis, assisting at-risk families. She also assessed
the overall improvement of families, via the Missouri Family Functioning Assessment Scale (MFFAS),
who were provided intensive in-home service. During the past year and a half, she participated in a
research project entitled "Hispanic, Language, and Psychiatric Diagnosis." This research project
aims to investigate how cultural factors influence psychiatric diagnosis. Her 2-1/2 years'
experience in the United States – in school and in the field – has enabled her to understand why
cultural issues are so important in this diverse country.
LANCE PETERSON (Cohort '05) received his Bachelor's degree in psychology in 1998.
Prior to graduating, Lance was a research assistant to Dr. Michael Lambert in his investigation of
the Youth Reclamation Program, an alternative program to placement for ungovernable youth. Lance
received his MSW from Brigham Young University in April 2000. One of his internships was at the
Family Support and Treatment Center in Orem, UT, where he was an outpatient therapist for adults
and children. In that setting, Lance received excellent training in child-centered play therapy. He
also interned at Wasatch Mental Health in Provo, Utah, where he worked as a school-based therapist
for behavior disordered children. Shortly after receiving his MSW, Lance began working in Randolph,
NY, at Randolph Children's Home, where he served as a residential social worker for one year. While
there, he also worked with ungovernable teenagers and their families. Lance then transferred to The
Resource Center in Jamestown, NY, where he worked for 3 l/2 years as a mental health clinician at.
He has provided individual, family, and group therapy to adults and children in that setting.
Lance's doctoral interests include family therapy, theory, and welfare-to-work.
LAUREN STEVENSON (Cohort '05) received her Master of Science in Social
Administration (MSSA) from the Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, Case Western Reserve
University in May 2005.
While earning her MSSA, she worked as a graduate research assistant
with the Semi J. and Ruth W. Begun Center for Violence Prevention Research and Education, focusing
primarily on a project funded by the Prison Rape Elimination Act of 2003, in addition to
collaborating with other community organizations to write grants, to provide violence prevention
programming and to develop local conferences.
Prior to beginning her MSSA, Lauren worked as a foster care specialist
with Child and Family Services of Northwest Michigan, providing intensive foster care case
management services and teaching independent living skills for children leaving the foster care
system.
She also provided assistance to families in a grief counseling program
with Michael's Place in Traverse City, MI.
In 2001, Lauren earned her Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from
Kalamazoo College, and was awarded the Marshall Hallock Brenner Prize in Psychology for her
excellence research and potential for future research.
She completed her Senior Individualized Project (thesis) entitled
Dynamic Stereotypes of Men and Women: A Cross-Cultural Study, under Dr. Alice H.
Eagly of the Social Psychology Department at Northwestern University which she presented at the
Midwestern Psychological Association's Annual meeting in May 2001.
Lauren has also lived abroad as part of two separate exchange
programs.
Her interests include statistics and violence prevention research.
KEN STOLTZFUS (Cohort '05) is an Assistant Professor of Social Work at Malone
College in Canton, OH.
In this capacity, he teaches the following courses: Introduction to
the Profession and Practice of Social Work, Practice Skills I and II, Senior Field Placement
Seminar, and Professional Issues in Social Work.
Ken also serves as director of Field Education, and is responsible for
developing and supervising social work field placements.
Prior to his faculty appointment at Malone College in 2003, Ken was
the program director for the Lancaster County Youth Advocate Program in Lancaster, PA.
His professional experience also includes serving as clinical
operations director and therapist at an outpatient addiction treatment clinic, and serving as a
program director and counselor at a residential treatment facility for addicted and delinquent
youth.
Ken is a member of the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE),
National Association of Social Workers (NASW), and North American Association of Christians in
Social Work (NACSW).
He is also a Licensed Independent Social Worker and Licensed
Independent Chemical Dependency Counselor in Ohio.
Ken received his BS in Education from Lock Haven University in 1994,
and his MSW from Temple University in 2000.
During his MSW studies, Ken was a two-time recipient of the J.F.
Steinman Fellowship, awarded for graduate study in the field of mental health.
SCOTT A. WILKES (Cohort '05) has been working in the field of child welfare for
the past 18 years. His most recent position was with Beech Brook, where he was the director of
business development, in charge of new program development and marketing. Scott has also held two
other positions at Beech Brook. He originally began working as the director of managed care. In
that capacity, he was awarded and implemented the Case Rate Pilot Project, a 5.6 million dollar
project designed to test managed care principles in the delivery of child welfare services. As the
director of this program, he worked collaboratively with the Cuyahoga County Department of Children
and Family Services in the implementation of new strategies to reduce the cost of care and to
expedite permanency for children placed in out-of-home care. In addition to serving as director, he
was also the vice president of Outpatient Services. In that capacity, he managed the Outpatient
Mental Health Clinic, located in theMount Pleasant community. Comprised of 20 therapists and 3
supervising clinicians, the clinic provided therapeutic services to children in Breech Brook
programs, as well as to children and families in the community. He has also worked briefly for the
Presbyterian Child Welfare Agency (PCWA) as the Vice President of Ohio, and for the Legal Aid
Society, Juvenile Rights Division in New York City. Scott received his Masters Degree in Social
Work from Columbia University and later obtained his Juris Doctor from Case Western Reserve
University, School of Law. Scott's research interests include children's mental health, child
welfare, and managed care and its impact on the cost and delivery of services.
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