Margaret Kiwanuka, M.S.W, LCSW is a Clinical Social Worker based in Boston, MA, and co-founder of Race to Action, founded in 2017. In 1994, Kiwanuka graduated from Simmons Graduate School of Social Work in Boston with her Master's in Social Work. That same year, she was awarded a Fellowship in Social Work from Children's Hospital and Judge Baker Children's Center. While at Judge Baker Children’s Center, Kiwanuka also trained and worked as a staff clinician at the Manville School in Boston. In addition to working at the Manville School in 1995, Kiwanuka worked at the MSPCC (Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children) in Boston as a school and home-based clinician supporting students and families where the courts required support and CHINS (Children In Need of Services) had been filed. As a clinician, Kiwanuka has worked extensively with at-risk children and families in outpatient, inpatient, and school-based settings. Alongside Kiwanuka’s work at the Manville School, she also worked as a clinical social worker at the Boston City Hospital, now Boston Medical Center, coordinating outpatient services to Adolescent and young adults and their children and also was the mental health site coordinator for the Boston Happens program based at the Boston City Hospital, funded by the HIV/AIDS Bureau of the Health Resources and Services Administration. After working at the Manville School for six years, Kiwanuka worked as a clinical consultant for the Epiphany Middle School, a private school in Boston for 3 years. Kiwanuka went on to work as a site coordinator for Project Aspire, an integrated elementary school-based program designed to address social-emotional learning and school climate in the Boston Public Schools in partnership with the Harvard Graduate School of Education for 4 years. As part of Project Aspire, Kiwanuka supervised graduate interns from the Risk and Prevention Program to support the implementation of the curriculum Voices of Love and Freedom. Between 2004 - 2007, Kiwanuka supervised Wheelock and Simmons College BSW/MSW interns in two Boston Public Schools supporting students’ emotional and academic needs. In 2008, Kiwanuka joined Open Circle, a social and emotional learning program at Wellesley College's Stone Center through Wellesley Centers for Women as a trainer/coach, where she worked for six years. In 2013, Kiwanuka began working at the Boston University School of Social Work as an adjunct faculty field supervisor. Since 2016, Kiwanuka has been a Clinical Site Coordinator at Cathedral High School in Boston, MA, supervising graduate interns from Boston University School of Social Work and teaching seminars and clinical courses at BU.

Sarah McSweeney, PsyD is a clinical psychologist and co-founder and partner at Race to Action in Boston, MA. She did her training at the Ilinois School of Professional Psychology in Chicago, IL, from 1991-94, and her internship at Children’s Hospital/Judge Baker Children’s Center in Boston in 1994-95. Her doctoral dissertation focused on how institutions of higher learning adopt new multicultural curricula and how these practices could be improved.

After completing her internship, she was hired at Children’s Hospital to work on their school-based clinical team in the Boston Public Schools. There she worked within school communities doing consultation, therapy (individual, family, and group), and conflict resolution work. In 2001, Dr. McSweeney began her private practice in Lexington, MA, where she continues to work with young adults, adults, and families. In 2004, she authored a chapter in Bias in Psychiatric Diagnosis, edited by Paula J. Caplan & Lisa Cosgrove called, “Women and Depression.”

In addition to private practice, she was a co-founder of The Believe Project, an organization that went into schools and taught children about mindfulness and meditation. In 2017, she co-founded Race to Action with Margaret Kiwanuka-Woernle, MSW. With Race to Action, she and her co-founder go into businesses, institutions, and communities and help them to have difficult conversations about Race and inequities and work with these organizations to shape their present and future goals for diversity, equity, and inclusion work.