UW–Eau Claire: Turning trauma into triumph: Social work grad Emily Casey

Most students expect to face some challenges during college, academically and otherwise. Nothing, however, could have prepared Emily Casey for the difficulties she faced in her first year at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire — physical and emotional struggles that nearly pushed her to give up her college dreams. “In the fall of my first year at UWEC, I suffered two severe concussions that hav...