Mentzie Rahman

Mentzie Rahman is a student in the 1-year Advanced Standing Master of Social Work program and an IBH Scholar at UNC Charlotte. Her undergraduate degree is in Social Work from North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University. Mentzie is deeply passionate about immigration reform and has worked in various advocacy roles to support refugee and immigrant communities to gain adequate access to human services, and self-sustainability by creating spaces to foster human connection between refugees and the local Greensboro community. As an AmeriCorps Access member for the Center of New North Carolinians at UNC Greensboro, she contributed to a qualitative environmental justice research project, interviewing immigrants about migration and the climate crisis. She presented her findings at a UNC Greensboro panel for the Humanities Action Lab project, ‘Climates of Inequality: Stories of Environmental Justice.’ Mentzie is currently an intern at Atrium Health, Trauma Survivors Network in Charlotte, North Carolina. Her experience includes hospital case management and in-patient hospice social work supporting patients and their families during their end-of-life journey. She intends to become a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) and is committed to normalizing grief, death, and dying.