UT Knoxville Alumni recently presented the inaugural class of Volunteer 40 Under 40 award-winners. Volunteer 40 Under 40 recognizes forty alumni under the age of 40 who have excelled personally and professionally since completing their degree at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Congratulation to College of Social Work alumnus Jennifer Drake-Croft for making it into the inaugural class.

Jennifer Drake-Croft
MSSW Social Work (’15)

Occupation: Director of Child Well-Being Tennessee Commission on Children and Youth, Nashville, TN

Favorite UT Memory: Meeting people who have become some of my best friends and colleagues I continue to work with.

Bio: Jennifer Drake-Croft, MSSW, IMH-E®, is the Director of Child Well-Being with the Tennessee Commission on Children and Youth. Sitting on multiple state and local committees, Jennifer has helped lead and shape macro-level initiatives and policies to promote healthy child development, prevent Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs), and support resilient communities. Most notably, she was a founding member of All Children Excel (ACE) Nashville, a 400-member collective impact initiative seeking to reduce ACEs and promote resilience at the population level using a public health approach.

Click here to see all of the UT 40 Under 40
https://alumni.utk.edu/s/1341/2/20/interior.aspx?sid=1341&gid=2&pgid=14396