Mildred “Mit” Joyner has thrown her hat into the ring seeking the vice presidency of the National Association of Social Workers (NASW), according to a recent article on SocialJusticeSolutions.org. Joyner spent 25 years at West Chester University as professor of social work and chairperson of the baccalaureate social work program.

Her other credentials include: 

• former president and board chair of the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE)

• owner of MCJ Consultants, "which provides technical assistants to organizations and supervision for clinical social workers or those obtaining an LCSW who are in need of supportive supervision"

• director of DNB First, a Chester County bank for nearly a decade (the first African American woman on the DNB board of directors)

• founding board member of the Congressional Research Institute for Social Work and Policy (CRISP)

• serves on the board of directors of the Chester County Food Bank in Exton

• five years with the Chester County Department of Children, Youth and Families

• has a scholarship in her honor—the Mit Joyner Gerontology Leadership Award—for undergraduate faculty and students via the Association of Gerontology in Social Work

• board member for the Institute for Geriatric Social Work

• co-author of Critical Multicultural Social Work published in 2008 by Lyceum Books

• named as a NASW Pioneer in 2013

• served as president of the Association of Baccalaureate Social Work Programs (BPD)

• served as chair of Living Beyond Breast Cancer