{"id":49562,"date":"2024-10-07T15:09:24","date_gmt":"2024-10-07T15:09:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/faculty\/?page_id=49562"},"modified":"2025-08-14T14:53:25","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T14:53:25","slug":"sabala-genevieve","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/faculty\/sabala-genevieve\/","title":{"rendered":"Sabala, Genevieve"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Sabala teaches in the MSW program at º¬Ð߲ݴ«Ã½. She educates to empower learners through skills, knowledge, practice, and critical thinking! She spent years working with refugee youth and families from war-torn countries across the world. Her interests in macro social work practice led her to develop several programs for a nonprofit organization, including a youth leadership program that empowered refugee kids to strive higher and achieve their academic goals; and Convergence Paths, a cultural competence annual training of public school educators that transformed how they interacted with refugee kids in their classrooms, resulting in a significant reduction in their suspensions. Her interests include the impact of current social, economic, political, organizational, and cultural structures\/systems on communities and organizations. As a society, how can we plan, develop,and implement initiatives\/programs that are sustainable and transformative? How can we integrate anti-oppressive practices and achieve social justice for the vulnerable and marginalized in our society?<\/p>\n<h2>Education<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Ph.D., Nova Southeastern University, Fort Lauderdale, FL<\/li>\n<li>M.P.A., Grand Valley State University, Allendale, MI<\/li>\n<li>M.S.W., Grand Valley State University, Allendale, MI<\/li>\n<li>B.A. Egerton University, Njoro, Kenya<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Courses<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Practice Methods and Skills 1: Individuals<\/li>\n<li>Integrated Field Seminar<\/li>\n<li>Advanced Practice Methods<\/li>\n<li>Community Organizing and Social Movements and Theory<\/li>\n<li>Global Elective-Namibia<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Sabala teaches in the MSW program at º¬Ð߲ݴ«Ã½. She educates to empower learners through skills, knowledge, practice, and critical thinking! She spent years working with refugee youth and families from war-torn countries across the world. Her interests in macro social work practice led her to develop several programs for a nonprofit organization, including &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":520,"featured_media":49563,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-49562","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/49562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/520"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49562"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/49562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49564,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/49562\/revisions\/49564"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}