Getting to know each other

Hello, classmates!

My name is Christy Camp and I am a graduate student at the School of Social Work at UT. I have a CAL (Community and Administrative Leadership) focus here at the School of Social Work and I am pursuing a portfolio from the LBJ School of Public Affairs in Nonprofit Management. I got an undergraduate degree in Social Work with a double minor in Psychology and Substance Abuse & Addiction from the University of North Texas in May 2012. Currently, I serve as a Refugee Advocate at Caritas of Austin. I am being mentored by a case manager from Nairobi and we work specifically with people from Nairobi, the capital of Kenya. My passions lie in advocating for the LGBT community, people living with HIV/AIDS, and sex workers. I decided I wanted to be a social worker because I was essentially raised by clinical social workers as an adolescent. Social workers changed my life and fostered in me a deep love for people. So, now I plan to give back to the profession that gave me so much. I come from an upper-middle class suburb of Dallas called Flower Mound.  

I choose to devote my professional career to community development/community leadership because it empowers the underrepresented, the vulnerable, and the disenfranchised by giving a voice to those who may not otherwise have one. I believe assisting in strengthening a community's capacities to meet their own needs helps solve social problems. (Whether that be globally or domestically)

I look forward to learning from my classmates, who have such a diverse and different story from mine.

I am a huge fan of photos, so here are some pictures I would like to share:

 My dog, Ramona:

Junie my cat: