Board of Directors
Megan Sarasek
Graduate Student Representative
Megan Sarasek (BA, DePaul University) is a current MSW student at Loyola University Chicago. Born and raised in Evanston, Illinois, she attended Baker Demonstration School and Evanston Township High School for grade school and high school respectively. At the age of seventeen, she went out to Washington, DC, to attend American University and proceeded to study law and public policy. After struggling with personal medical issues, she came back home to Chicago and finished her bachelor’s degree at DePaul University, majoring in political science. She had fine instructors at DePaul, and a great mentor who encouraged her to follow her dreams and pursue a master’s in social work at Loyola University. She has always been committed to social justice, and spent much of her undergraduate years lobbying and working for political campaigns. In her current social work education, she has taken a clinical focus in her field work, yet remains committed to policy work and advocacy and is looking forward to finding more ways to get involved in both micro- and macro-level forms of intervention. She is extremely interested in mental health and substance abuse policy, and for this reason has decided to specialize in the mental health track at Loyola while also pursuing her Certificate in Alcohol and Drug Counseling (CADC). She looks forward to contributing her knowledge, experience, and passion for social work and social justice in the future.
