b'WILLIAM JAMES COLLEGE 21If you toss a pebble into a pond, the impact isnt just seen at the point where the stone enters the water. The ripples reach out and touch other places. A gift made to an organization that serves others can move similarly.with it, and the difficulty to access mentalteaches first-year students at Tufts University health, to identify it, to be able to own itMedical School. She has served on several non- shamelessly, and look at it in a way thatprofits including Jewish Family and Childrens needs attention and correction, she said.Service, Horizons for Homeless Children Svenson, who began her career as a teacherand CJPs The Miriam Fund. Today she is and school counselor, made a career changeretired from clinical work. She focuses her to clinical psychology to fulfill a passion. Attime on family and philanthropy, running the a certain juncture in my life, she said, IHawk foundation with her children and their decided to go back to school to pursue aspousesBenjamin and Lauren Svenson, Sarah career as a Clinical PsychologistI wasand Dana Nielsen, and Eric and Sarah Svenson.interested in deepening my understandingIn their philanthropy decisions, she of human behavior and learning about wayssaid, she works with her family to choose I could be responsive to it as a clinician. organizations where they believe in the Svenson spent more than a decade inleadership and where they believe the community mental health in Brookline beforework can make change happen. opening her own private practice. She now'