Sonia Medina Pranger has been a professor of social work for over eight years. She has worked in varying social work practice settings such as public child welfare, public K-12 schools, veterans population and clinical practice. She has a bachelors and masters in social work, is licensed by the Board of Behavioral Sciences in California, and has a pupil personnel services credential for school social work, academic counseling, and child welfare and attendance from the California Commission on Teacher Credentialing.Currently, Professor Pranger has been employed by Fresno Pacific University (FPU) for five years. She has developed and expanded the field education program as the field coordinator for three years at FPU, and she currently is a full time assistant professor in the social work program where she is the program director for the traditional undergraduate format.She highlights her research interests as ethically integrating faith perspectives in practice, exploring faith integration in field experience modalities of learning, and in identifying and implementing self care among emerging and existing social work professionals. In addition, her interests are in exploring trauma recovery for family systems. Professor Pranger will begin her doctoral studies at Regent University in Virginia in Spring 2019.