WORK RESOURCES

 

 

Basic Facts About Low-Income Children in the United States
National Center for Children in Poverty (NCCP)
http://www.nccp.org/topics/childpoverty.html

 

Nearly 13 million children in the United States — 18% of all children — live in families with incomes below the federal poverty level — $20,650 a year for a family of four. Research shows that, on average, families need an income of about twice that level to cover basic expenses. Using this standard, 39% of children live in low-income families.

 

 

National Association of Counties
Rural Action Caucus
http://www.naco.org/

 

The caucus lobbies Congress on behalf of rural counties, identifying critical problems, providing input on national programs and policies, and building coalitions. It also operates a Rural Development Clearinghouse of success stories on a range of issues, and it works with media in identifying how existing and proposed policies affect rural counties and communities. 

 

 

Kids Count Data Center
Annie E. Casey Foundation
http://www.kidscount.org/datacenter

 

The nonprofit foundation's Kids Count Data Center is an outgrowth of the child well-being report released by the foundation each summer. It contains national, state- and city-level data for over 100 measures of child well-being, including health. 

 

 

Office of Family Assistance
Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families
http://www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/ofa/

 

OFA oversees the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program that was created by the Welfare Reform Law of 1996. Its Web site provides a summary of selected characteristics of state TANF plans, links to state human services administrators and other TANF data.

 

 

National Infant and Toddler Child Care Initiative
Department of Health and Human Services
http://www.nccic.org/itcc/

 

The National Infant & Toddler Child Care Initiative at ZERO TO THREE is a project of the Child Care Bureau, Administration for Children and Families, Department of Health and Human Services. The Initiative works collaboratively with Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF) administrators and other partners in their efforts to move forward system initiatives to improve the quality and supply of infant and toddler child care.

 

 

Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics
http://childstats.gov

 

A collaboration of federal agencies and departments, the forum fosters coordination in collecting and reporting federal statistics on education, family and social environment, economic circumstances, health and health care, behavior, physical environment and safety. It releases the "America's Children" report each July. For federal statistics on a range of issues, see www.fedstats.gov

 

 

Child Care and Development Fund State Plan Resources
National Child Care Information Center, Administration on Children and Families, HHS
http://nccic.acf.hhs.gov/pubs/stateplan/stateplan-intro

 

These reports (2002-2009) include a summary of how states and territories are using CCDF funds to improve services for infants and toddlers and their families. The National Child Care Information Center (NCCIC) is a national clearinghouse and technical assistance center linking parents, providers, policy-makers, researchers, and the public to early care and education information. 

 

 

Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
http://www.cbpp.org/

 

CBPP conducts research and analysis to inform debates on fiscal policy and to help ensure that the needs of low-income families and individuals are considered.

 

 

Economic Research Service
U.S. Department of Agriculture
http://www.ers.usda.gov/

 

The ERS provides economic analysis on food, farming, natural resources and rural development. Its economists and social scientists conduct research, analyze food and commodity markets, produce policy studies, and develop economic and statistical indicators. Its work is structured among four divisions: resource and rural economics; food economics; information services; and market and trade economics.

 

 

Add Health
National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, University of North Carolina
http://www.cpc.unc.edu/projects/addhealth/data

 

Add Health is a nationally representative study that explores the causes of health-related behaviors of adolescents in grades 7 through 12 and their outcomes in young adulthood. Add Health seeks to examine how social contexts (families, friends, peers, schools, neighborhoods, and communities) influence adolescents' health and risk behaviors. 

 

 

American Community Survey
U.S. Census Bureau
http://www.census.gov/acs/www/

 

Three reports present a portrait of racial and ethnic population groups in the United States based on data from the 2004 American Community Survey. Each report provides information on a number of characteristics (e.g., education, household type, income, commuting, etc.). 

 

 

State Assessments
National Juvenile Defender Center (NJDC)
http://www.njdc.info/assessments.php

 

The National Juvenile Defender Center conducts state-based assessments of access to and quality of juvenile defense counsel. These reports are part of a nationwide effort to improve juvenile indigent defense across the country. The assessments provide comprehensive examinations of the systemic and institutional barriers that prevent lawyers from providing adequate legal services to indigent children within a particular state legal system. 

 

Population Division
U.S. Census Bureau
http://www.census.gov/

 

The bureau’s population division disseminates data on households and families in the annual Current Population Survey, released in March. The American Community Survey covers the nation as well as states, large counties and cities. The bureau also estimates net international migration for the country, states and counties. The fertility and family statistics branch, at the Suitland, Md., headquarters, provides data on childbearing and more. Contact: public information office, 301.763.3030; pio@census.gov

 

 

Welfare, Children & Families: A Three-City Study
Johns Hopkins University
http://web.jhu.edu/threecitystudy

 

The intensive study assesses the well-being of low-income children and families in Boston, Chicago and San Antonio after welfare reform. Begun in 1999, the study includes longitudinal surveys and developmental and ethnographic studies. The study’s principal investigator is Andrew Cherlin, sociologist and professor of public policy at Johns Hopkins University. Contact: 410.516.2361; welfare@jhu.edu

 

 

“New Housing, Income Inequality, and Distressed Metropolitan Areas,” September 2007
The Brookings Institution
http://www.brookings.edu/reports/2007/09newhousing_wats

 

The Metropolitan Policy Program released this report on new housing and income inequality in distressed neighborhoods.

 

 

"Rural America at a Glance"
Economic Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture
http://www.ers.usda.gov/emphases/rural/ataglance.htm

 

“Rural America At A Glance” is a series of brochures that highlight the most recent indicators of social and economic conditions in rural areas for use in developing policies and programs to assist rural areas. Focuses include the labor market, housing, population, unemployment, industry, race, education, economy, income and poverty trends in rural areas.

 

 

"Combating Poverty: Emerging Strategies From the Nation's Cities," 2007
National League of Cities
http://www.nlc.org/ASSETS/492F291196434AA590778DC436167

 

The NLC's Council on Youth, Education and Families report looks at anti-poverty strategies in 11 cities: Athens, Ga.; Baton Rouge, Columbus, Ga.; Dayton, Ohio, Greenville, S.C., Itta Bena, Miss.; Kalamazoo, Mich.; Miami; New York; San Francisco; and Savannah.

 

U.S. Census Bureau
U.S. Department of Commerce
http://www.census.gov/

 

The bureau’s population division disseminates data on households and families in the annual Current Population Survey, released in March. The American Community Survey covers the nation as well as states, large counties and cities. The bureau also estimates net international migration for the country, states and counties. The fertility and family statistics branch provides data on childbearing and more. 

 

 

“The More Children, More Choices Act of 2007: Middle-Class Tax Relief for Families with Kids”
Heritage Foundation
http://www.heritage.org/

 

The think tank, in Washington, D.C., formulates and promotes conservative public policies based on the principles of free enterprise, limited government, individual freedom and traditional American values. Its domestic research covers economics, education, family and marriage, health care and more. In October 2007, it released Robert E. Moffit’s report, “The More Children, More Choices Act of 2007: Middle-Class Tax Relief for Families with Kids.” Contact: media affairs, 202.675.1761

 

 

Who are America’s Poor Children?
National Center for Children in Poverty
http://www.nccp.org/publications/pub_843.html

 

An October 2008 reports shows that over 13 million American children live in families with incomes below the federal poverty level, which is $21,200 a year for a family of four in 2008. The number of children living in poverty increased by 15 percent between 2000 and 2007. There are 1.7 million more children living in poverty today than in 2000.

 

 

Families and Living Arrangements: Current Population Survey (CPS) Reports
Fertility & Family Statistics Branch, Population Division, U.S. Census Bureau
http://www.census.gov/population/www/socdemo/hh-fam.htm

 

Demographic characteristics of households and families are collected annually in the March CPS. More detail on household and family characteristics for states, metropolitan area, and other geographic locations is collected in the decennial census.

 

 

"Paid Leave in the States: A Critical Support for Low-wage Workers and Their Families," March, 2009
National Center for Children in Poverty (NCCP)
http://www.nccp.org/publications/pub_864.html?utm_sourc

 

Millions of families struggle to juggle work and family responsibilities. Low-wage workers can find this balancing act especially difficult since they are more likely to work in jobs with few benefits and limited flexibility. The report finds that paid leave can promote both family economic security and child and family well-being. In the absence of a federal paid leave policy, a handful of states have enacted paid leave. This brief examines existing policies and concludes with recommendations for policymakers considering paid leave. 

 

 

U.S. Department of Labor
http://www.dol.gov/

 

DOL is charged with protecting workers' wages, health and safety, employment and pension rights; promoting equal employment opportunity; administering job training, unemployment insurance and workers' compensation programs; strengthening free collective bargaining; and collecting, analyzing and publishing labor and economic statistics.

 

 

“Grade Inflation: Too many magazines and organizations set a low bar for honoring ‘family-friendly’ companies,” The American Prospect
http://www.prospect.org/cs/articles?article=grade_infla

 

Every year, Working Mother magazine announces its much-anticipated “100 Best Companies.” Employers leap to publicize their inclusion on the list. But is it, and similar lists published by other magazines and organizations, much more than public relations? 

 

 

"The Cost of Doing Nothing: The Economic Impact of Recession-Induced Child Poverty" 2008
First Focus
http://www.firstfocus.net/Download/CostNothing.pdf

 

First Focus' report, "The Cost of Doing Nothing: The Economic Impact of Recession-Induced Child Poverty" finds the United States will suffer a future economic loss of over $1.7 trillion if the current recession drives an additional 3 million children into poverty, as has been predicted. First Focus examines the long term economic cost of persistent poverty.

 

 

National Center for Children in Poverty (NCCP)
Columbia University
http://www.nccp.org/publications/pub_864.html?utm_sourc

 

"Paid Leave in the States: A Critical Support for Low-wage Workers and Their Families," March, 2009 Millions of families struggle to juggle work and family responsibilities. Low-wage workers can find this balancing act especially difficult since they are more likely to work in jobs with few benefits and limited flexibility. The report finds that paid leave can promote both family economic security and child and family well-being. In the absence of a federal paid leave policy, a handful of states have enacted paid leave. This brief examines existing policies and concludes with recommendations for policymakers considering paid leave. 

 

 

Faststats
National Center for Health Statistics, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/default.htm

 

The center provides state and territorial data and demographics on diverse health topics.
 
 

 

Shelley M. MacDermid Ph.D., Director
Military Family Research Institute
The Center for Families at Purdue University

 14 N. Second St.
Lafayette, IN 47901
765.423.2266; shelley@purdue.edu
www.mfri.purdue.edu/ ...
The institute, at Purdue University in Lafayette, Ind., conducts research on the quality of life for military members and their families. It’s funded by the Department of Defense’s Office of Military Community and Family Policy. MacDermid is a professor of Child Development and Family Studies.

 

Susan Nierenberg, Senior Director of Communications
Catalyst

120 Wall St., 5th Floor
New York, NY 10005
212.514.7600 x333; snierenberg@catalyst.org
www.catalyst.org...
Founded in 1962, Catalyst is a nonprofit corporate membership research and advisory organization working globally with businesses and the professions to build inclusive environments and expand opportunities for women and business. Its members represent more than 340 corporations, firms, business schools and associations. The organization has offices in New York, San Jose, Toronto and Zug, Switzerland. 

 

Johanna Ramos-Boyer, Communications Consultant
Corporate Voices for Working Families

2600 Virginia Ave. Suite 205
Washington, DC 20037
703.646.5137; johanna@jrbcomm.com
www.cvworkingfamilies.org...
The nonpartisan, nonprofit organization represents corporate perspectives in work-family issues. Its 55 partner companies – with most listed in the Fortune 500 – employ more than 4 million people among all 50 states, and its members help develop policies for their own workforces.

 

Michael Volpe, Media Relations
U.S. Department of Labor
Job Corps.
200 Constitution Ave., NW
Washington, DC 20210
202.693.3984; volpe.michael@dol.gov
http://jobcorps.dol.gov/...
The DOL is charged with preparing the U.S. workforce for new and better jobs. Job Corps. aims to help youths 16 through 24. 

 

Joan Williams, Director
UC Hastings College of the Law
Center for Work Life Law
200 McAllister St.

San Francisco, CA 94102
415.565.4805; joanwilliams@worklifelaw.org
www.worklifelaw.org...
The center – part of the University of California, Hastings College of the Law – is a nonprofit research and advocacy organization. It works with employees, employers, attorneys, legislators, journalists and researchers to identify and prevent family responsibilities discrimination.

 

 

J. Lawrence Aber Ph.D.
Professor of Applied Psychology
Steinhardt School of Education
New York University

New York, NY 10053
212.998.5410; la39@nyu.edu
http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/faculty_bios/view/J._Law...
Aber is a professor of applied psychology and public policy, and he's also board chair of New York University's Institute for Human Development and Social Change. He previously taught at Barnard College, Columbia University and at the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University, where he directed the National Center for Children in Poverty. Aber's basic research examines the influence of poverty and violence, at the family and community levels, on the social, emotional, behavioral, cognitive and academic development of children and youth. An internationally recognized expert in child development and social policy, Aber has written extensively about issues. His most recent book is "Child Development and Social Policy: Knowledge for Action" (2007, APA Publications).

 

Gina Adams, Senior Research Associate and Child Care Team Leader
Urban Institute
2100 M St., N.W.
Washington, DC 20037
202.833.7200; gadams@urban.org
http://www.urban.org/bio/GinaAdams.html...
The institute is a nonprofit policy research organization that investigates social and economic problems. Adams directs research on the policies and programs that affect the affordability, quality and supply of child care and early education.

 

Eileen Appelbaum Ph.D., Professor and Director
Center for Women and Work
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Ruth Dill Johnson Crockett Building

162 Ryders Lane, 3rd Floor
New Brunswick, NJ 08901
732.932.4614, ext 1; eappelba@rci.rutgers.edu
http://www.cww.rutgers.edu/...
Appelbaum's research focuses on work-life practices of organizations, with an emphasis on issues related to work time and flexibility. Formerly, she was research director at the Economic Policy Institute in Washington, D.C., and professor of economics at Temple University.

 

Morris Ardoin, Director of Communications and Public Affairs
Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University
National Center for Children in Poverty
215 W. 125th St., 3rd Floor
New York, NY 10027
646.284.9616; ardoin@nccp.org
www.nccp.org...
A division of Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health, the nonpartisan research organization promotes the economic security, health and well-being of America’s low-income families and children. It pushes family-oriented solutions at the state and national levels, producing reports and fact sheets that highlight strategies to end child poverty. The site has a basic-needs budget calculator, plus demographics and policy tools to create custom tables of national- and state-level statistics about low-income or poor children. In October, it published two reports: “Who Are America’s Poor Children” and “Basic Facts About Low-Income Children.” Founded in 1989 at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health, the nonprofit research center promotes the economic security, health and well-being of America’s low-income families and children. It pushes family-oriented solutions at the state and national levels, producing reports and fact sheets that highlight strategies to end child poverty. (See its fact sheet, “Basic Facts About Low-Income Children in the United States,” http://www.nccp.org/topics/childpoverty.html)

 

Dean Baker Ph.D., Co-Director
Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR)
1611 Conn. Ave. NW, Suite 400
Washington, DC 20009
202.293.5380; baker@cepr.net
http://www.cepr.net...
CEPR conducts both professional research and public education so that the public is better prepared to choose among the various policy options. The goal of CEPR is to ensure that the citizenry has the information and analysis that allows it to act effectively in the public interest. Baker is a macroeconomist and previously worked as a senior economist at the Economic Policy Institute and an assistant professor at Bucknell University. His blog, Beat the Press is located at http://beatthepress.blogspot.com.

 

Alan Barber, Communications Coordinator
Center for Economic and Policy Research
1611 Connecticut Ave., NW Suite 400
Washington, DC 20009
202.293.5380 x115; barber@cepr.net
www.cepr.net...
Through research and public education, the nonprofit center promotes democratic debate on economic and social issues. Shawn Fremstad co-directs its Inclusion initiative, which develops policy ideas to foster social and economic inclusion. It focuses on improving job quality, wages and benefits.

 

Rosalind Barnett, Executive Director
Community, Families & Work Program (CFWP)
Brandeis University
Brandeis University, Mailstop 079, 515 South St.
Waltham, MA 02454
781.736.2287; rbarnett@brandeis.edu
http://www.brandeis.edu/centers/wsrc/scholars/Scho...
Barnett's focus includes: Work-family, gender, job stress—illness relationship, dual earner couples, alternative work schedules, after-school stress. She is also a Senior Scientist at the Women's Studies Research Center.

 

Douglas Besharov, Program Director and Professor
UMD School of Public Affairs
Welfare Reform Academy
4131Van Munching Hall
(AEI) 17th St. NW, Suite 1100, Washington, DC 20036
College Park, MD 20742

301.405.6341; besharov@umd.edu
http://www.puaf.umd.edu/facstaff/faculty/besharov....
Besharov is a professor in UMD's School of Public Policy and a senior scholar at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C. He's also a lawyer. Besharov runs UMD's Welfare Academy, which helps state and local officials, private social service providers and others reshape programs in keeping with the 1996 welfare reform law. It has provided training in program design, implementation and evaluation for Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, Medicaid, food stamps, job training, child care and more. Besharov served as founding director of the U.S. National Center on Child Abuse from 1975 to 1979. He's the author of "Recognizing Child Abuse: A Guide for the Concerned" and 14 other books, including "The Vulnerable Social Worker: Liability for Serving Children and Families." 

 

Suzanne Bianchi Ph.D., Professor of Sociology and Director
Maryland Population Research Center
University of Maryland
3129 Art-Sociology Building
College Park, MD 20742
301.405.6409; bianchi@socy.umd.edu
http://www.popcenter.umd.edu/people/bianchi_suzann...
Bianchi’s research focuses on family demography and gender equality in the workplace. She is engaged in a research project funded by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development to design new models for explaining family change and variation. She also is writing a book on time use patterns in American families.

 

Barbara Blum, Director

Research Forum on Children, Families
National Center for Children in Poverty
Columbia University
Mailman School of Public Health, 154 Haven Ave.
New York, NY 10032
212.304.7132 or 212.304.7; bbb10@columbia.edu
http://www.researchforum.org...
Blum is the director of the Research Forum on Children, Families, and the New Federalism, whose mission is to help develop rigorous, policy relevant research about the effects of the new federalism on poor and vulnerable populations.

 

Margaret Bridges, Research Director
Child Development
UC Berkeley
2140 Shattuck #705
Berkeley, CA 94720
510.642.9163; mbridges@berkeley.edu
Bridges is the director of Child Development Projects at PACE. She is the author of a study by UC Berkeley and Stanford researchers who found that middle-class children -- not just kids from the poorest families -- receive a boost in language and math skills from preschool. The findings are found in: "How much is too much? The Influence of Preschool Centers on Children's Development Nationwide" 

 

Xavier de Souza Briggs, Director and Associate Professor of Sociology and Urban Planning
The Community Problem-Solving Project
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
77 Massachusetts Ave., Room 9-521
Cambridge, MA 02139
617.253.7956; xbriggs@mit.edu
http://www.community-problem-solving.net/...
Briggs is an expert on urban neighborhoods as contexts for children and families, race and inequality, housing and community development policy, and local politics and governance. 

 

J. Larry Brown Ph.D., Executive Director
Center on Hunger and Poverty
Heller Graduate School, Brandeis University
Mailstop 077
Waltham, MA 02454
781.736.8885; jlbrown@brandeis.edu
http://www.centeronhunger.org/...
The center is an outgrowth of the Harvard-based Physician Task Force on Hunger in America which, during the 1980s, made field visits across the U.S. and released studies on the extent and causes of hunger. Brown, created the center as a vehicle to address not only hunger, but its cause - growing poverty and income inequality in America. The center maintains data on food insecurity: http://www.centeronhunger.org/hunger/state.html.

 

Maria Cancian, Director
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Institute for Research on Poverty (IRP)
305 Observatory Hill Office Building
University of Wisconsin–Madison
Madison, WI 53706-1211
608.263.6633; cancian@lafollette.wisc.edu
http://www.irp.wisc.edu/home.htm...
IRP is a center for interdisciplinary research into the causes and consequences of poverty and social inequality in the U.S. One of three Area Poverty Research Centers sponsored by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, it has a particular interest in poverty and family welfare in the Midwest. Cancian is also a professor of Social Work and Public Affairs. Her research interests include poverty, welfare and child support policy, and the economic well-being of families with children.

 

Randy Capps Ph.D., Senior Policy Analyst
Immigration Studies
Migration Policy Institute
1400 16th St. NW, Suite 300
Washington, DC 20036
202.266.1938; rcapps@migrationpolicy.org
http://migrationpolicy.org/...
Capps researches welfare and immigration policy. Formerly an analyst at the Urban Institute, his recent report, “The Health and Well-Being of Young Children of Immigrants,” centered on the 5.1 million children of immigrants under age 6 in the U.S. and their access to TANF, food stamps, center-based child care and schooling. Other areas of study include illegal immigration, the application and eligibility determination process for immigrants, and the role of immigrants in the No Child Left Behind Act.

 

David Card Ph.D., Professor of Economics
Department of Economics
University of California, Berkeley
549 Evans Hall #3880
Berkeley, CA 94720-3880
510.642.5222; card@econ.berkeley.edu
http://www.iir.berkeley.edu/faculty/card/index.htm...
Cards' research focuses on economics, education and immigration, such as labor market competition between immigrants and natives and inequalities between the earnings of blacks and whites. Card has published widely on issues regarding welfare reform; the effects of Medicaid programs; pension and retirement; labor supply; school financing and the distribution of education resources; wage structure; unions and strikes; and unemployment. 

 

Judi Casey, Director and Principal Investigator
Sloan Work and Family Research Network
3 Lake St. Building, 2nd floor
140 Commonwealth Ave.
Chesnut Hill, MA 02467
617.552.1708; wfnetwork@bc.edu
wfnetwork.bc.edu...

Supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the Boston College-based network supports research and teaching, promotes best practices in the workplace, and informs state policy. 

 

Nancy Cauthen, Deputy Director
National Center for Children in Poverty
215 W. 125th St., 3rd Floor
New York, NY 10027
646.284.9626; cauthen@nccp.org
http://www.nccp.org/...
NCCP is dedicated to promoting the economic security, health, and wellbeing of America’s low-income families and children. It seeks to advance family-oriented solutions and the strategic use of public resources at the state and national levels to ensure positive outcomes for the next generation.

 

Rosemary Chalk, Director
Board on Children, Youth and Families
The National Academies
500 Fifth St. N.W., 11th Floor
Washington, DC 20001
202.334.1935; rchalk@nas.edu
http://www7.nationalacademies.org/bocyf/...
Created by the National Academies in 1993, the nonpartisan board addresses policy-relevant issues involving the health and development of children, youth and families and convenes experts to analyze and evaluate research.

 

Andrew Cherlin Ph.D., Griswold Professor of Public Policy
Department of Sociology
Johns Hopkins University

Mergenthaler Hall/3400 Charles St
Baltimore, MD 21218
410.516.2370; cherlin@jhu.edu
http://www.soc.jhu.edu/people/cherlin/...

Cherlin's research focus is the sociology of the family and public policy, particularly in the area of divorce and remarriage. He is the principal investigator of an ongoing study of the consequences of a 1996 welfare reform law for parents and children. The intensive study assesses the well-being of low-income children and families in Boston, Chicago and San Antonio after welfare reform.

 

Scott Coltrane Ph.D., Professor/Associate Director
Center for Family Studies
University of California, Riverside
1206 Watkins Hall
Riverside, CA 92521
951.827.5444; coltrane@ucr.edu
http://www.facultydirectory.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/pub/pu...
Coltrane is a co-principal investigator of a five-year National Institute of Health grant to study Latino families. His research focuses on family responses to economic stress, family strengths, fatherhood, gender relations and media images of masculinity.

 

Stephanie Coontz, Professor of History and Family Studies
The Evergreen State College
808 N. Rogers St.
Olympia, WA 98505
360.352.8117; coontzs@evergreen.edu
http://academic.evergreen.edu/c/coontzs/home.htm...
Coontz teaches history and family studies and is the director of research and public education for the Council on Contemporary Families, which she chaired from 2001-04. Her books include "The Way We Never Were: American Families and the Nostalgia Trap" (Basic Books, new edition 2000) and "The Way We Really Are: Coming to Terms with America's Changing Families" (Basic Books, 1997).

 

Amy Cox Ph.D., Social Scientist
Center for the Study of Social Welfare Policy
RAND Corporation
1776 Main St.
Santa Monica, CA 90407
310.393.0411, Ext. 6718; cox@rand.org
http://www.prgs.edu/faculty/profiles/cox.html...
Cox's research focuses on the relationships among social inequalities, labor markets/social systems, and demographic phenomena such as economic well being, welfare use and family processes. Cox's other ongoing research includes studies of racial-ethnic differences in social support and exchange among family members, the relationship between declines in childbearing and declines in welfare participation.

 

Al Cross, Director
University of Kentucky
The Institute for Rural Journalism and Community Issues
122 Grehan Building
University of Kentucky
Lexington, KY 40506
859.257.3744; al.cross@uky.edu
http://www.uky.edu/CommInfoStudies/IRJCI/...
The Institute for Rural Journalism and Community Issues interprets rural issues for metro news media, conducts seminars, and publishes research and good examples of rural journalism. It helps non-rural journalists learn about rural issues, trends and events in places that have much in common with their own. It helps rural journalists how to exercise editorial leadership in small markets.

 

Peter Cunningham Ph.D., Senior Health Researcher
Center for Studying Health System Change (HSC)
600 Maryland Ave. S.W., Suite 550
Washington, DC 20024
202.484.4242; pcunningham@hschange.org
http://www.hschange.org...
Cunningham has had primary responsibility for overseeing the design and implementation of the Community Tracking Study household survey and a survey of health insurance plans. Cunningham's research has been primarily concerned with the uninsured. His work has been published in a wide variety of scholarly journals, including JAMA, Health Affairs, Inquiry, Health Services Research and various HSC Data Bulletins and Issue Briefs. Earlier Cunningham was a researcher at the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research (now the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality).

 

Elisabeth H. Donahue, Associate Editor of The Future of Children Journal
Woodrow Wilson School
Princeton University
Woodrow Wilson School
Princeton University
Princeton, NJ 08544-1013
609.258.0340; edonahue@Princeton.edu
http://webdb.princeton.edu/dbtoolbox/query.asp?qna...
Donahue worked for the National Women’s Law Center, focusing on child support, welfare reform and child care issues. She has taught both undergraduate and graduate courses on child support, welfare reform, childcare, children’s health, family policy and social policy financing.

 

Bob Drago, Professor, Labor Studies and Industrial Relations
The Work/Family Initiative
Pennsylvania State University
133 Willard Bldg.
University Park, PA 16801
814.865.0751; drago@psu.edu
http://lsir.la.psu.edu/workfam/drago.htm...
Drago's recent research concerns biases against caregiving in the workplace, working time, the value of work-family policies. He is president elect for 2006 of the College and University Work/Family Association, a co-founder of the Take Care Net, and a member of the Council on Contemporary Families and the International Association for Feminist Economics.

 

Greg Duncan Ph.D., Professor of Education
Department of Education
University of California, Irvine
Berkeley Place 2062
Irvine, CA 92697-5500
949.824.7831; gduncan@uci.edu
http://www.gse.uci.edu/person/gduncan/gduncan_biog...
Duncan is an expert on family and neighborhood poverty and child development. He formerly worked at the Institute for Policy Research at Northwestern University. Dunca's research focuses on the effects of poverty on families and neighborhoods, and the intergenerational consequences of welfare use. He has investigated the concentration of persistent poverty among certain population subgroups, in particular African-Americans. Duncan and colleagues also have examined the life consequences for adolescents in families that receive at least partial income from welfare. He has written extensively about income distribution, child poverty and welfare dependence and is the co-author or co-editor of several books. A former principal investigator of the Michigan Panel Study of Income Dynamics, Duncan was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2001. He was elected president of the Population Association of America for 2008 and president of the Society for Research in Child Development for 2009-2011.

 

Diana Eck, Professor
Comparative Religion and Indian Studies
Harvard University
Faculty of Arts and Sciences, University Hall
Cambridge, MA 02138
617.493.1600; dianaeck@fas.harvard.edu
http://www.hds.harvard.edu/faculty/eck.html...
Eck’s academic work focuses on India and America and the challenges of religious pluralism in a multi-religious society. Since 1991, she has headed the Pluralism Project, which now includes a network of some 60 affiliates exploring the religious dimensions of America’s new immigration; the growth of Hindu, Buddhist, Sikh, Jain and Zoroastrian communities in the United States; and the issues of religious pluralism and American civil society.

 

Kathryn Edin Ph.D., Professor of Public Policy and Management
Kennedy School
Harvard University
79 JFK Street
Cambridge, MA 19104
617.495.2067; kathy_edin@ksg.harvard.edu
http://ksgfaculty.harvard.edu/kathryn_edin...
Edin's research focuses on urban poverty and family life, social welfare, public housing, child support and nonmarital childbearing. Her most recent publication (with Paula England), Unmarried Couples with Children, is an analysis of a four-year study of 50 unmarried couples who shared a birth in 2000. Previous publications include the results of a six-year ethnographic study in eight Philadelphia neighborhoods, Promises I Can Keep: Why Poor Women Put Motherhood Before Marriage (with Maria J. Kefalas), and Making Ends Meet: How Low Income Single Mothers Survive Welfare and Low Wage Work (with Laura Lein). Her next book is tentatively titled Marginal Men: Fatherhood in the Lives of Low Income Unmarried Men (with Timothy Nelson and Laura Lein). Current projects include a study nested within the interim evaluation of the Moving to Opportunity Experiment, an evaluation of the Gautreaux Two housing mobility program in Chicago, and Investing in Enduring Resources with the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC), a study of EITC allocation among low-income households in Boston and Central Illinois.

 

Ronald Ferguson, Lecturer in Public Policy
Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy
Harvard University John F. Kennedy School of Government
Taubman-474
79 John F. Kennedy St.
Cambridge, MA 02138
617.495.1104; ronald_ferguson@harvard.edu
http://ksgfaculty.harvard.edu/Ronald_Ferguson...
Ronald F. Ferguson, is an economist and senior research associate at Harvard's Weiner Center for Social Policy. Much of his research since the mid-1990s has focused on racial achievement gaps, and as appeared in many publications, books and scholarly journals. He also works with school districts on closing achievement gaps. He is the creator and director of the Tripod Project for School Improvement and is also the faculty chair and director of the Achievement Gap Initiative at Harvard University. Ferguson earned an undergraduate degree from Cornell University and a Ph.D. from MIT, both in economics.

 

Barbara Ferman Ph.D., Director
University Community Collaborative of Philadelphia
Temple University
428 Gladfelter Hall
1115 W. Berks St.
Philadelphia, PA 19122
215.204.6276; bferman@temple.edu
http://www.temple.edu/uccp/...
Ferman, a political science professor and Brooklyn native, primarily focuses on urban politics. Her interest in practical applications led her, in 1997, to start the UCCP, which leverages the university's research and pedagogical expertise for larger community ends. With an emphasis on community development and youth civic engagement, the UCCP conducts direct programming, capacity building and applied research in collaboration with community-based and other nonprofit organizations. It addresses issues of housing and community development, neighborhood politics and community organizations, and political leadership and urban public policy.

 

Tom Fricke Ph.D., Associate Prof. of Anthropology; Senior Associate
Center for the Ethnography of Everyday Life
University of Michigan
426 Thompson St.
Ann Arbor, MI 48106
734.763.1500; tomf@umich.edu
http://www.ethno.isr.umich.edu/index.html...
Fricke is an associate professor of anthropology and a senior associate research scientist at the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan. He is also director of the Center for the Ethnography of Everyday Life, an Alfred P. Sloan Center for the study of working families. Fricke’s research has focused on social transformations in family and work in a variety of settings, including Nepal, Pakistan, Taiwan and the United States. He is the author of numerous papers on topics ranging from fieldwork methods through demography to the cultural contexts of family change. Recent publications include “Himalayan Households: Tamang Demography and Domestic Processes” (Columbia University, 1994) and "Home Work" in the October 1998 Anthropology Newsletter. His most recent ethnographic research on rural families in the Great Plains has been featured in articles appearing in the Los Angeles Times, The Chronicle of Higher Education and Discover Magazine. His 1984 Ph.D. in anthropology is from the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

 

Rachel Friedberg Ph.D., Senior Lecturer

Economics
Brown University
Department of Economics, Brown University
64 Waterman St.
Providence, RI 02912

401.863.7578; Rachel_Friedberg@Brown.edu
http://research.brown.edu/research/profile.php?id=...
Friedberg joined Brown in 1992 as an assistant professor of economics. She has been a faculty research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research since 1993. Friedberg's research focuses on the economics of immigration. In particular, she studies the impact of immigration on the receiving labor market – how immigration affects the earnings and job oppporunities of native-born workers. She also studies the determinants of labor market success among immigrants, including factors such as the human capital (education and work experience) acquired abroad vs. domestically, language, and age at arrival. Her work focuses on the United States and Israel.

 

Richard Fry Ph.D.
Senior Research Associate
Pew Hispanic Center
1615 L St. N.W., Suite 700
Washington, DC 20036
202.419.3600; rfry@pewhispanic.org
http://pewhispanic.org...
The center works to improve understanding of the U.S. Hispanic population and to chronicle Latinos' growing impact on the entire nation. Fry researches education and employment trends among Hispanics. Previously, he was a senior economist at the Educational Testing Service (ETS), where he focused on trends in U.S. college enrollment. At the U.S. Department of Labor, his research focused on immigrants.

 

Bruce Fuller, Associate Professor
Graduate School of Education
University of California
Tolman Hall 3659
Berkeley, CA 94720
510.642.0709; B_FULLER@UCLINK4.Berkeley.EDU
http://gse.berkeley.edu/faculty/BFuller/BFuller.ht...
Fuller co-authored a new study by UC Berkeley and Stanford researchers that found that middle-class children -- not just kids from the poorest families -- receive a boost in language and math skills from preschool. The study is called: "How much is too much? The Influence of Preschool Centers on Children's Development Nationwide"

 

Frank Furstenberg Ph.D., Chair

Zellerbach Family Professor of Sociology
Network on Transitions to Adulthood
University of Pennsylvania
3718 Locust Walk
Philadelphia, PA 19104
215.898.6718; fff@pop.upenn.edu
http://www.pop.upenn.edu/transad/about/index.htm...
The network examines the changing nature of early adulthood and the policies, programs and institutions that support young people as they move into adulthood. Funded by the MacArthur Foundation, the network documents cultural and social shifts and explores how families, government and social institutions shape the course of young adults’ development. Furstenberg's current research focuses on the family in the context of disadvantaged urban neighborhoods, adolescent sexual behavior, cross national research on children's well-being and urban education. His most recent book is "Managing to Make It: Urban Families in High-Risk Neighborhoods." His previous books and articles center on children, youth, families and the public.

 

Vivian Gadsden, Director
National Center on Fathers and Family (NCOFF)
University of Pennsylvania
3700 Walnut St., Box 58
Philadelphia, PA 19104
215.573.5500; vgadsden@gse.upenn.edu
http://www.ncoff.gse.upenn.edu/...
An interdisciplinary policy research center, NCOFF is dedicated to research and practice that expands the knowledge base on father involvement and family development, and that informs policy designed to improve the well-being of children.

 

Lourdes Gouveia Ph.D., Director, Office of Latino/Latin American Studies; Professor of Sociology
Latino/Latin American Studies and Sociology
University of Nebraska at Omaha
Arts and Sciences Hall, Room 106
University of Nebraska
Omaha, NE 68182
402.554.3358; lgouveia@mail.unomaha.edu
http://www.unomaha.edu/socanth/gouveia.htm...
Gouveia studies the interrelation between the global restructuring of agriculture and meatpacking, the recruitment of Latino immigrant labor, and the implications of these changes for the future of Latinos, immigrants and communities. Her most recent publications include a forthcoming report commissioned by the Century Foundation on state policies toward immigrant integration and an article on Latinos and new immigrants settling in rural America published in the Journal of Latino/Latin American Studies.

 

Mark Grey Ph.D.
Iowa Center for Immigrant Leadership and Integration
University of Northern Iowa
Lang Hall 221
Cedar Falls, IA 50614
319.273.3029; mark.grey@uni.edu
www.newiowans.com...
Grey is a professor of anthropology at the University of Northern Iowa and director of the Iowa Center for Immigrant Leadership and Integration. The Iowa Center provides consultation, training and publications to Iowa communities, as they deal with the arrival of new immigrants and refugees. Grey is also associate director of the Iowa Project EXPORT Center of Excellence on Health Disparities.

 

Diane Halpern Ph.D., Director
Berger Institute for Work, Family, and Children
Claremont McKenna College
890 Columbia Berger Institute
Claremont, CA 91711
909.607.9647; diane.halpern@claremontmckenna.edu
http://berger.claremontmckenna.edu/...
The Berger Institute offers information about a wide range of work and family issues, including the effects of changing demographics and diversity on work-family balance, the business case for family-friendly workplaces, poverty issues for working families, and the relationships among stress, health and child development. also see: http://academic.claremontmckenna.edu/faculty/profile.asp?Fac=302

 

Kathleen Mullan Harris, Assistant Chair of Sociology
Sociology Department
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Carolina Population Center, CB #8120 University Square
123 W. Franklin St.
Chapel Hill, NC 27516
919.962.1388; kathie_harris@unc.edu
http://www.cpc.unc.edu/bios/index.php?person=harri...
Harris has conducted research on risk behavior among adolescents in immigrant families. She found that adolescents born in the U.S. to immigrant parents suffer poorer health and engage in riskier behaviors than children born in other countries who then immigrate to the U.S. with their parents.

 

Everett Henderson, Research Associate
Immigration Studies Program
Urban Institute
2100 M St. N.W.
Washington, DC 20037
202.833.7200; ehenders@ui.urban.org
http://www.urban.org...
Henderson is co-author of “Civic Contributions: Taxes Paid by Immigrants in the Washington, DC, Metropolitan Area” (The Urban Institute, 2006). He also co-authored profiles of the foreign-born populations of Connecticut (released 11/05), Arkansas (forthcoming) and the Louisville metro area (forthcoming). He is currently assessing the impact of the 2002 Farm Bill on immigrant use of food stamps and analyzing the effect of welfare reform on immigrant program participation. Henderson is currently using several longitudinal data sets to study determinants of entry into science and engineering careers among the native-born, in order to better understand why the science and technology sectors of our economy have increasingly become dependent on high skilled foreign-born workers.

 

Thomas Hertz Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Economics
Department of Economics
American University
4440 Massachusetts Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20016
202.885.2756; hertz@american.edu
http://www.american.edu/academic.depts/cas/econ/...
Hertz's areas of interests include poverty, minimum wage, race and gender-based wage differentials and wealth gaps, and the process of intergenerational transmission of economic status. His 2006 report, “Understanding Mobility in America,” studied inequalities in the economic mobility of black and white families. The report found that education, race, health and state of residence are four key channels by which economic status is transmitted from parent to child.

 

Jody Heymann, Associate Professor of Health and Social Behavior
Harvard Center for Society and Health
Harvard University
Kresge Building, Room 723
Boston, MA 02115
617.432.3914; jheymann@hsph.harvard.edu
http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/society/index.html...
The center is dedicated to the task of identifying the social and economic determinants of health and intervening to improve the public’s health. Heymann is currently principal investigator on "The Behavioral and Cognitive Development of Children Living in Poverty: How is it Affected by Parental Working Conditions," a research project using large national databases.

 

Ariel Kalil Ph.D., Associate professor, developmental psychologist
Harris School of Public Policy Studies
University of Chicago
1155 E. 60th St.
Suite 110
Chicago, IL 60637

773.834.2090, a-kalil@uchicago.edu
http://harrisschool.uchicago.edu/faculty/web-pages...
Kalil, a developmental psychologist, studies how economic conditions affect child and family functioning. Her projects have examined how transitions from welfare to work affect mothers and children, barriers to employment for welfare recipients, and family process and child development in female-headed, teenage-parent and cohabiting-couple households. She has had a William T. Grant Faculty Scholars Award and is in the Foundation for Child Development's Changing Faces of America's Children Young Scholars Program.

 

Lynn Karoly Ph.D., Senior Economist
Center for the Study of Social Welfare Policy
RAND Corporation
1200 South Hayes St.
Arlington, VA 22202
703.413.1100, Ext. 5359; karoly@rand.org
http://www.rand.org/news/experts/bios/expert_karol...
Karoly's research has focused on early childhood investments, social welfare policy and U.S. labor markets. She has investigated the costs and benefits of early childhood intervention programs. And other recent research includes: the impact of welfare reform on child and family well-being, and the implications of demographic trends, technological change and globalization for the future U.S. workforce and workplace.

 

Maria Kefalas Ph.D., Assistant Professor
Department of Sociology
St. Joseph's University
College of Arts and Sciences
5600 City Ave., 139 Post Hall
Philadelphia, PA 19131
610.660.2618; mkefalas@sju.edu
http://www.sju.edu/IVRP/personnel/kefalas.htm...
Kefalas researches urban and community life, motherhood, marriage and the sociology of culture. Her book with Kathryn Edin, "Promises I Can Keep: Why Poor Women Put Motherhood Before Marriage" (University of California Press, 2005), is an ethnographic study of mother-headed families in poor communities. She also wrote "Working-Class Heroes: Protecting Home, Community, and Nation in a Chicago Neighborhood" (University of California Press, 2003) examines life in a working- and lower-middle -class white Chicago neighborhood. Kefalas also serves as Principal Investigator with ethnographer and criminologist Patrick Carr on the Heartland Study, focused on 120 young people who attended the local high school in rural, northeast Iowa in the 1990s.

 

Louis Keith M.D., Professor
Children and Families
The Center for the Study of Multiple Birth
333 East Superior Street, Suite 464
Chicago, IL 60611
312.695.1677; lgk395@northwestern.edu
http://www.multiplebirth.com...
Dr. Keith is a professor in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Northwestern University Medical School.He founded CSMB in 1977 along with his identical twin, Donald. CSMB's long-range objectives include distributing information on reducing the medical risks and social costs of multiple birth, sponsoring scientific conferences on the care of twin children and higher-order multiples, and encouraging funding for medical and social research relating to multiple birth.

 

Susan Kellam, Senior communications adviser
Brookings Institution
1775 Massachusetts Ave., NW
Washington, DC 20036
202.797.6310; skellam@brookings.edu
www.brookings.edu...
Kellam promotes Brookings, a think tank supporting a wide scope of research. Its Center on Children and Families examines policies affecting the well-being of U.S. children and their parents, especially children in less advantaged families. Directed by Ron Haskins and Isabel Sawhill, it co-publishes the twice-yearly journal Future of Children.

 

Madhulika Khandelwal, Associate Professor
Urban Studies
Queens College, City University of New York
65-30 Kissena Blvd.
Flushing, NY 11367
718.997.3056; Madhulika.Khandelwal@qc.cuny.edu
http://qcpages.qc.cuny.edu/Asian_American_Center/...
Madhulika S. Khandelwal is the director of the Asian/American Center and associate professor in the Urban Studies department at Queens College, City University of New York. She has taught Asian American studies at a number of universities and has conducted research on contemporary Asian American communities. Khandelwal’s main interests include immigrants, women, the South Asian diaspora, Asian American communities and multicultural issues in the United States. Her ethnographic research on South Asian immigrant communities in the New York area has been published in her book, “Becoming American, Being Indian: An Immigrant Community in New York City” (Cornell University Press, 2002). Born in India, Khandelwal was educated in both India and the United States and has a doctorate in history from Carnegie-Mellon University. Her academic career focuses on engaging diverse cultural and community issues.

 

Jacob Klerman, Director
Center for the Study of Social Welfare Policy
RAND Corporation

1776 Main St.
Santa Monica, CA 90407
310.393.0411, Ext. 6289; klerman@rand.org
http://www.rand.org/labor...
Klerman led the official evaluation of welfare reform in California. His other research interests include: the determinants of recruiting into the armed forces, women's work behavior and fertility.

 

Jeffrey Kling, Deputy Director

Economic Studies Program
The Brookings Institution
1775 Massachusetts Ave., N.W.
Washington, DC 20036-2118
202.797.6304; jkling@brookings.edu
www.brookings.edu...
Kling’s focus is on economics, social policy, poverty in the U.S. and government expenditure programs. His current projects include housing vouchers and offender re-integration as well as unemployment insurance, Medicare and other aspects of social insurance in the U.S.

 

Virginia Knox, Director
Work, Community, and Economic Security
MDRC
16 East 34 Street
19th Floor
New York , NY 10016-4326
212.532.3200; virginia_knox@mdrc.org
http://www.mdrc.org/staff_16.html...
Knox brings 20 years’ experience to the study and evaluation of social programs, with special expertise in how supports for low-income workers — particularly child support and financial incentives — affect families and children. She currently directs the Supporting Healthy Marriage project, a federally funded evaluation of interventions aimed at improving child well-being by strengthening the relationships of married couples. She also oversees the Next Generation project, a multidisciplinary initiative to study welfare reform programs' impacts on the well-being of children and families. Knox has direct knowledge of welfare systems, having been special assistant to the executive deputy commissioner for income maintenance in New York City’s Human Resources Administration, where her responsibilities included estimating the cost of welfare reform programs. The author of numerous reports and papers, Knox has a doctorate in public policy from Harvard University.

 

Anirudh Krishna Ph.D., Assistant Professor
Public Policy
Duke University
212 Sanford Institute
Box 90245
Durham, NC 27708
919.613.7337; krishna@pps.duke.edu
http://www.pubpol.duke.edu/centers/hlp/about/facul...
Krishna’s studies focus on democracy, community development (especially rural), political participation, social capital and poverty reduction. Most recently, Krishna has been working on poverty and democracy at the micro level. He has headed the International Poverty Study and has conducted field research on this subject in India, Kenya, Peru and Uganda.

 

Annette Lareau Ph.D., Professor of Sociology
Department of Sociology
Center for the Advanced Study of the Behavioral Sciences

University of Maryland, College Park
2112 Art-Sociology Building
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742
301.405.9369; alareau@socy.umd.edu
http://www.bsos.umd.edu/socy/faculty/alareau.html...
Lareau is an expert on inequality, particularly in terms of race and wealth, in American society. She is the author of “Unequal Childhoods: Class, Race, and Family Life” (University of California Press, 2003) and “Home Advantage: Social Class and Parental Intervention in Elementary Education” (Falmer Press, 1989). Lareau teaches sociology at the University of Maryland, College Park.

 

Sharon M. Lee, Professor
Sociology
Portland State University
P.O. Box 751
Portland, OR 97207
503.725.3962; lees@pdx.edu
http://www.sociology.pdx.edu/lee.htm...
Lee is an expert on Asian-American immigration and population trends.

 

Barbara Lee Ph.D., Director
National Children's Center for Rural and Agricultural Health and Safety
Marshfield Medical Research Foundation
1000 N. Oak Ave.
Marshfield, WI 54449
715.389.4999; lee.barbara@mcrf.mfldclin.edu
Lee directs this federally funded center to improve children's safety in rural areas, and lessen the number of agricultural injuries on U.S. farms and ranches.

 

Jodie Levin-Epstein, Senior State Policy Analyst
Center for Law & Social Policy
1616 P St. NW, Suite.150
Washington, DC 20036
202.328.5174; jodie@clasp.org
http://www.clasp.org/...
The Center for Law and Social Policy is a public interest law firm seeking to improve economic conditions of low-income families with children. Levin-Epstein focuses on welfare initiatives and provides technical assistance to policy makers and agency staff. The Spotlight on Poverty and Opportunity initiative, launched in October 2007, aims to focus attention on the poor during the 2008 presidential campaign. It features a growing cache of data, analyses and reports. Its advisory council includes: Rebecca Blank, director of the University of Michigan’s National Poverty Center; Geoffrey Canada of the Harlem Children’s Zone; Ron Haskins, co-director of the Brookings Institution’s Center on Children and Families; and William S. Cohen, former secretary of defense. Initial support comes from the Annie E. Casey and Eos foundations. http://www.spotlightonpoverty.com

 

Judith Levine Ph.D., Faculty Affiliate
Population Research Center
University of Chicago
773.702.1149; jlevine@uchicago.edu
http://www.ssa.uchicago.edu/faculty/j-levine.shtml...
Judith Adrienne Levine's fields of special interest include poverty and social policy, social stratification, low-wage work, gender inequality, sociology of the family, health, and economic sociology. She has had a long-standing interest in understanding poor women's welfare program participation and employment patterns. Levine is engaged in a two-wave longitudinal qualitative study comparing women’s experience in the low-wage labor market pre- and post-welfare reform. In addition, she has collaboratively examined the effects of welfare reform on health insurance coverage for disadvantaged women.

 

Phillip Levine, Economics
Wellesley College
106 Central Street
Wellesley, MA 02481
781.283.2162; plevine@wellesley.edu
Levine’s research has largely been devoted to empirical examinations of the impact of government programs and social legislation on individual and business behavior. Topics include the impact of imperfect experience rating in the unemployment insurance system on firms’ layoff behavior, whether welfare recipients move between states because of differences in welfare generosity, and the impact of abortion policy changes on pregnancy, abortion and birth. This last topic is addressed in Levine’s book, Sex and Consequences: Abortion, Public Policy, and the Economics of Fertility (Princeton University Press, 2004), which asks whether individuals change their behavior when abortion access increases.

 

Cyra Master, Communications Coordinator
Center for Law and Social Policy
1015 15th St. NW, Suite 400
Washington, DC 20005
202.906.8027; cmaster@clasp.org
www.clasp.org...
The national nonprofit conducts research and policy analysis to improve low-income people’s economic security, educational and workforce prospects. Specifically, it aims to: increase adults’ access to quality education, training and transitional jobs; create universal opportunities for early childhood education; improve access to supports such as child care, food stamps, Medicaid and cash assistance; help young people avoid risky behavior; and help more kids grow up with two involved parents.

 

David J. Maume, Director

Kunz Center for Study of Work and Family
Department of Sociology
University of Cincinnati
2624 Clifton Ave.
Cincinnati, OH 45221
513.556.4713; david.maume@uc.edu
http://ucaswww.mcm.uc.edu/sociology/kunzctr/...
David J. Maume Jr. is professor of sociology, and director of the Kunz Center for the Study of Work and Family at the University of Cincinnati. His recent research includes studies of the career impact of occupational segregation, family influences on the length of paid work schedules, and gender differences in work interference with family life. As Kunz Center director, he oversees the Survey of Ohio's Working Families, an annual survey that explores conflict between work and family obligations. His has been recently published in the American Behavioral Scientist, Social Forces, Work and Occupations, Journal of Family Issues, and Journal of Comparative Family Studies. Maume received his bachelor's degree in sociology from Old Dominion University and his master's and doctoral degrees in sociology from the University of North Carolina. 

 

Rebecca Maynard Ph.D., Professor
Graduate School of Education
University of Pennsylvania
3700 Walnut Street Room 409
Philadelphia, PA 19104
215.898.3558; rmaynard@gse.upenn.edu
http://www.gse.upenn.edu/faculty/maynard.html...
Maynard has directed many large-scale social experiments and policy analyses on issues related to welfare policy, employment and training policy, services for teenage parents, teenage pregnancy prevention, and child care policy. She is director of an ongoing federally funded evaulation of abstinence programs. The first report is at: http://www.mathematica-mpr.com/publications/PDFs/e
valabstinence.pdf

 

Monica McGrath Ph.D., Adjunct Associate Professor of Management Faculty
Wharton School of Business
University of Pennsylvania
mcgrath@wharton.upenn.edu
http://www.whartonsp.com/articles/article.asp?p=41...
McGrath spearheaded a study called, "Back in the Game. Returning to Business after a Hiatus: Experiences and Recommendations for Women, Employers, and Universities." McGrath's study focuses on the fact that women executives who leave the corporate world when they hit a glass ceiling, want to raise a family full-time or decide to focus on other interests, encounter roadblocks in their attempts to re-enter the workforce.

 

Sara McLanahan Ph.D., Director and Professor
Center for Research on Child Well-being (CRCW)
Princeton University
265 Wallace Hall
Princeton University
Princeton, NJ 08544
609.258.5894; mclanaha@princeton.edu
http://crcw.princeton.edu/...
CRCW researchers have studied the relationship between earnings, socioeconomic status and child health status, and the effects of child health on parents’ relationship status and ability to work. McLanahan is an expert on single parent families. Her research interests include family demography, poverty and inequality, and social policy.

 

Vonnie C. McLoyd, Senior Research Scient
Center for Human Growth & Development
University of Michigan
300 N. Ingalls, 10th Floor
Ann Arbor, MI 48109
734.764.2443; vcmcloyd@umich.edu
http://www.umich.edu/~chgdwww/faculty/mcloyd.html...
McLoyd, who also is a professor of psychology, focuses on the impact of economic hardship on family processes and children’s mental health and beliefs. She recently examined the effects of maternal unemployment and income loss on the mental health of single African-American mothers and their adolescent children.

 

Barbara Medina Ph.D., Director

English Language Acquisition Unit
ELAU
Colorado Department of Education
201 E. Colfax Ave Rm40
Denver, CO 80203
303.866.6758; medina_b@cde.state.co.us

Medina is the director of the Colorado Department of Education’s English Language Acquisition Unit. The ELAU aims to provide linguistic, social and academic support for all migrant, immigrant and refugee English language learners. It encompasses programs – such as the federal Title I and Title III, as well as state efforts – for nearly 100,000 pre-K-12 students in the state’s public schools.

 

Ronald Mincy Ph.D., Maurice V. Russell Professor of Social Policy and Social Work Practice
School of Social Work
Columbia University
Columbia University School of Social Work
1255 Amsterdam Ave.
New York, NY 10027
212.851.2406; rm905@columbia.edu
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/ssw/faculty/profiles/mi...
Mincy teaches and directs the School of Social Work's Center for Research on Fathers, Children and Family Well-being. He studies the effects of welfare, child support, family support, housing, and employment and training policies and practices on family formation and father involvement. Before joining Columbia's faculty in 2001, Mincy was a Ford Foundation senior program officer, working on such issues as improving U.S. social welfare policies for low-income fathers, especially child support, and workforce development policies. He also served on the Clinton Administration's Welfare Reform Task Force. Mincy is a co-principal investigator of the Fragile Families and Child Well-being Survey, and he has been involved in numerous other research grants. He is a member of the MacArthur Network on the Family and the Economy and serves on advisory boards for many organizations, including the African American Healthy Marriage Initiative and the University of Michigan's National Poverty Center.

 

Katherine Newman
Professor of Sociology and International Affairs
Sociology/Woodrow Wilson School
Princeton University
151 Wallace Hall
Princeton, NJ 08544
609.258.8723; knewman@princeton.edu
Newman's interests lie in the qualitative study of social stratification, with a special emphasis on the cultural meaning of mobility, work, poverty and violence. Her latest book, with Victor Tan Chen, is "The Missing Class: The Near Poor Experience in Modern America" (Beacon Press, 2007). She also has written "Chutes and Ladders: Navigating the Low Wage Labor Market" (Harvard University Press and Russell Sage, 2006), which studies African American and Latino service workers; "A Different Shade of Gray: Midlife and Beyond in the Inner City" (New Press, 2003); and "No Shame in My Game: The Working Poor in the Inner City" (Knopf/Russell Sage, 1999). She edited "Rampage: The Social Roots of School Shootings" (Basic Books, 2004). Newman previously taught at Columbia, Berkeley and Harvard.

 

Paul Ong Ph.D.
Professor
Urban Planning, Social Welfare and Asian American Studies
University of California, Los Angeles
3320 Public Policy Building
University of California, Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1656
310.206.2193 ext. 62193; pmong@ucla.edu
http://www.spa.ucla.edu/dept.cfm?d=up&s=faculty&f=...
Ong’s studies include the labor market status of minorities and immigrants, the impact of immigration on the employment status of young African Americans, work and welfare and transportation access. He is currently engaged in several projects, including studies on the effects of neighborhood economies on welfare and work, community economic development in minority communities, and the labor market for healthcare workers. Ong is also director of the Ralph and Goldy Lewis Center for Regional Policy Studies, a nonprofit organization at UCLA founded to seek equality for Asian Pacific Americans.

 

Jeffrey Passel, Researcher
Urban Institute
2100 M Street, N.W.
Washington, DC 20037
202.261.5678; jpassel@ui.urban.org
http://www.urban.org/authors/passel.html...
Passel's research has focused on the impacts and integration of immigrants into American society, and the demography of immigration, particularly the measurement of illegal immigration. Most recently, Passel and his colleagues have been investigating integration of immigrants and the second generation, welfare use by immigrants, the fiscal impacts of immigrants, including taxes paid and social services used, and size of the undocumented population. His interests also include measuring and defining racial/ethnic groups in the United States.

 

James Perrin M.D., Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School
Director, Center for Child and Adolescent Health Policy
MassGeneral Hospital for Children
50 Staniford St., Suite 901
Boston, MA 02114
617.726.8716; perrin.james@mgh.harvard.edu
http://www.massgeneral.org/mghfc/MGHfC_forprofessi...
Dr. Perrin's research has examined asthma, middle ear disease, children’s hospitalization and childhood chronic illness and disabilities, with a recent emphasis on studies of the Supplemental Security Income Program for children and adolescents. For the American Academy of Pediatrics, he also co-chairs a committee to develop a practice guideline for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. He served on the Institute of Medicine’s Committees on Maternal and Child Health under Health Care Reform and on Quality of Long-Term-Care Services in Home and Community-Based Settings, the National Commission on Childhood Disability, and the Disability Policy Panel of the National Academy of Social Insurance (Chair, Children’s Committee). He chaired the American Academy of Pediatrics Committee on Children with Disabilities and is past president of the Ambulatory Pediatric Association. A graduate of Harvard College and Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, he trained in pediatrics at the University of Rochester and has been on the pediatric faculties of the University of Rochester and Vanderbilt University, with an additional appointment at the Institute for Public Policy Studies at the latter institution.

 

Joanne Pfleiderer
Director of Communications
Mathematica Policy Research, Inc.
PO Box 2393
600 Alexander Park
Princeton, NJ 08543
609.275.2372; jpfleiderer@mathematica-mpr.com
http://www.mathematica-mpr.com...
Mathematica conducts public policy research and surveys on health care, education, welfare, employment, nutrition, child development, and other policy issues. The Center for Studying Health System Change (HSC) is an affiliate research organization that designs and conducts studies focused on the U.S. health care system.

 

William Pollack Ph.D., Co-Director, Clinical Psychologist
Centers for Men and Young Men
Harvard University
115 Mill St.
Belmont, MA 02178
617.855.2750; info@williampollack.com
http://www.williampollack.com/bio.html...
An authority on boys and men, Pollack's expertise includes boy's development and education; male violence, suicide and depression; school safety (including bullying prevention); workplace violence; and gender studies and parenting.

 

David Popenoe Ph.D, Co-Director
Rutgers University
The National Marriage Project
54 Joyce Kilmer Ave., Lucy Stone Hall B217
Piscataway, NJ 08854
732.445.7922; marriage@rci.rutgers.edu
http://marriage.rutgers.edu...
The project provides research and analysis in two areas: the state of marriage in America and the social, economic and cultural conditions affecting marital success and child well-being. The National Marriage Project works to strengthen the institution of marriage through research and analysis. Popenoe is a professor of sociology and specializes in the study of family and community life in modern societies.

 

Harriet B. Presser, Distinguished University Professor
Department of Sociology
University of Maryland
2112 Art & Sociology Bldg., Room 4101
College Park, MD 20742
301.405.6422; presser@socy.umd.edu
http://www.bsos.umd.edu/socy/hpresser.html...
Harriet B. Presser is distinguished university professor in the department of sociology, and director, Center on Population, Gender and Social Inequality at the University of Maryland, College Park. She is past president of the Population Association of America (1989). She has held previous faculty positions at the University of Sussex in England and at Columbia University in New York. Presser’s research expertise is in social demography, focusing on the intersections of gender, work and family. She also studies population and family policy issues from a national and international perspective. Her recent book, "Women’s Empowerment and Demographic Processes: Moving Beyond Cairo" (Oxford University Press, 2000), was co-edited with Gita Sen of India. She is currently writing a book, "Toward a 24-Hour Economy," to be published by the Russell Sage Foundation. She received her Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1969.

 

Mark Rank Ph.D., Herbert S. Hadley Professor of Social Welfare
George Warren Brown School of Social Work
Washington University in St. Louis
George Warren Brown School of Social Work
Washington University, Campus Box 1196, One Brookings Drive
St. Louis, MO 63130-4899
314.935.5694, markr@wustl.edu
http://gwbweb.wustl.edu/people/fac/rank.html...
Rank's research and teaching areas focus on poverty, social welfare, economic inequality and social policy. His first book, "Living on the Edge: The Realities of Welfare in America," explored the conditions of surviving on public assistance. His most recent book, "One Nation, Underprivileged: Why American Poverty Affects Us All," provides a new understanding of poverty in America, one in which we are all directly or indirectly affected by poverty.

 

Jeannette Rogowski Ph.D., Senior Economist
Center for the Study of Social Welfare Policy
RAND Corporation
1776 Main St.
Santa Monica, CA 90407
310.393.0411, Ext. 5356; jeannette_rogowski@rand.org
http://www.rand.org/labor/staff/rogowski/...
Rogowski directs the RAND Center for Employer-Sponsored Health and Pension Benefits and co-directs RAND’s Center for Health Care Markets and Vulnerable Populations. Her research includes studying the effects of changing health care market structure on access to care for vulnerable populations and on the quality of care provided by safety net hospitals. Other work on vulnerable children includes developing measures of quality of care for high-risk infants and studying the effects of welfare reform on disabled children.

 

Alvin Rosenfeld M.D., Psychiatrist and Author
4 E 89th Street
New York, NY 10128
212.348.5900;
http://www.hyper-parenting.com/abouttheauthors.htm...
Author of the book "The Over-Scheduled Child: Avoiding the Hyper-Parenting Trap" (2001, with Nicole Wise), Dr. Rosenfeld has also studied "typical" families and how they teach sexual values and attitudes to their 2 - 10 year old children. He has been a contributor over the years to our thinking about sexual rearing styles and "normal" sexual development. Dr. Rosenfeld is also founder of a grass roots movement, National Family Night (www.nationalfamilynight.org) which is devoted to rebalancing family priorities.

 

Kim Rueben Ph.D., Researcher and Adjunct Fellow
Urban Institute, Public Policy Institute
2100 M St. NW
Washington, DC 20037
202.261.5662; krueben@ui.urban.org
http://www.ppic.org/main/bio.asp?i=141...
Kim Rueben, Ph.D., is a research fellow at the Public Policy Institute of California, where she studies school finance and resource equity issues as well as state and local public finance. She is currently a visiting scholar at the Tax Policy Center, a joint venture of the Urban Institute and The Brookings Institution, where she studies the effects of changing the federal deductibility of state and local taxes on state and local governments. She holds a bachelor’s degree in applied math-economics from Brown University, a master’s degree in economics from the London School of Economics and a doctorate in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

 

Harriet Scarupa, Director of Communications
Child Trends, Inc.
4301 Connecticut Ave. NW, Suite 100
Washington, DC 20008
202.572.6000;
http://www.childtrends.org...
Child Trends is dedicated to improving the lives of children by conducting research and providing science-based information to improve the decisions, programs and policies that affect children and their families.

 

Barry Schwartz, Dorwin Cartwright Professor of Social Theory and Social Action Psychology
Swarthmore College
500 College Ave.
Swarthmore, PA 19081
610.328.8418; bschwar1@swarthmore.edu
http://www.swarthmore.edu/SocSci/bschwar1/index.ht...
Schwartz focuses on psychology and economics. His specific research interests are: decision making, the creation of values, the interaction of morality and self interest; work satisfaction; the role of ideology in assessing psychological theories; and basic learning processes. 

 

Arloc Sherman, Senior Researcher
Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
820 First St., NE, Suite 510
Washington, DC 20002
202.408.1080; sherman@cbpp.org
http://www.cbpp.org/pubs/povinc.htm...
Sherman researches trends in income inequality, employment of single mothers, the causes and consequences of family and child poverty, and welfare reform and policies that reduce poverty.

 

Kristine Siefert, Associate Director and Professor of Social Work
Center for Poverty, Risk and Mental Health
University of Michigan
1080 S. University, 2846 SSWB
Ann Arbor, MI 48109
734.763.6201, ksiefert@umich.edu
http://www.ssw.umich.edu/faculty/profile-ksiefert....
Siefert's research investigates social and environmental risk factors for poor health and mental health among low-income women and children in diverse racial and ethnic populations. Recent studies include the impact of household food insufficiency on the physical and mental health of low income women and social and environmental determinants of major depression in low-income women.

 

Margaret Simms, Senior Fellow
Low-Income Working Families project
Urban Institute
2100 M St NW
Washington, DC 20037
202.261.5283 (press), http://www.urban.org/index.cfm...
Simms, a nationally recognized expert on the economic well-being of African Americans, joined the Institute in 2007, following 21 years with the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies. She directs the Institute’s Low-Income Working Families project, a research initiative exploring challenges faced by 9 million families and their 19 million children.

 

Audrey Singer, Immigration Fellow
The Brookings Institution
1775 Massachusetts Ave., NW
Washington, DC 20036
202.797.6241; asinger@brookings.edu
http://www.brookings.edu/scholars/asinger.htm...
Singer’s expertise includes: demography, international migration, immigration policy, and urban and metropolitan change. She has written extensively on U.S. immigration trends, including naturalization and citizenship issues, undocumented migration, and the changing racial and ethnic composition of the U.S. Currently, her research focuses on the economic, social and political incorporation of immigrants. She is working on a study of contemporary immigrant settlement and emerging gateways in the U.S.

 

Anastasia Snyder Ph.D., Associate Professor of Rural Sociology and Demography
Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology
Ohio State University
135 Campbell Hall
1787 Neil Avem
Columbus, OH 43210
614.688.4169; asnyder@ehe.osu.edu
http://ehe.osu.edu...
Snyder's research focuses on children, youth and families, with two central themes: rural youth development and the changing American family. Her focus is primarily in understanding how the family institution is evolving in rural areas – and its implications for policy. Her research examines outcomes specifically for rural Native Americans, African Americans and Latino immigrants. Snyder is the principal investigator on "Education, Careers and Migration of Rural Youth" in declining areas, a federally funded, four-year study ending in 2010. Her other research includes studies of youth agricultural workers; and risk-taking behaviors involving sex and alcohol use.

 

Susan Solomon Ph.D., Author
47 Hardy Drive
Princeton, NJ 08540
609.937.6939; info@curatorialresources.com
http://www.recentamericanplaygrounds.com/...
Solomon is an expert in public playgrounds. She is the author of "American Playgrounds: Revitalizing Community Space" (University Press of New England, 1995), which examines problems with contemporary playgrounds, suggests improvements and addresses undervalued public space. She also explores American attitudes on safety and how that impacts play and places for public assembly. Trained as an art historian with a concentration on 20th-century architecture, she heads her own research firm, Curatorial Resources and Research, in Princeton, N.J.

 

Andrew Sum, Director, Professor of Economics
Center for Labor Market Studies
Northeastern University

360 Huntington Ave.
Boston, MA 02115
617.373.2242; a.sum@neu.edu
http://www.economics.neu.edu/people/sum/...
Sum is an expert in employment trends among young people and has researched employment policymaking, planning and evaluation at the local, state and national level for nearly three decades. His recent reports include: “The Age Twist in Employment Rates in the U.S., 2000–2004: The Steep Tilt Against Young Workers in the Nation’s Labor Markets” (2005, with Ishwar Khatiwada and Sheila Palma); “The Paradox of Rising Teen Joblessness in An Expanding Labor Market: The Absence of Teen Employment Growth in the National Jobs Recovery of 2003–2004” (2005, with Ishwar Khatiwada, Joseph McLaughlin and Sheila Palma); and “The Literacy Proficiencies of the Nation’s Immigrant Population and their Labor Market and Social Consequences” (2004, with Irwin Kirsch and Kentaro Yamamoto).
 

Mark Testa Ph.D., Director
Children and Family Research Center
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
150 N. Wacker, Suite 2120
Chicago, IL 60606
312.641.2493; mtesta@uiuc.edu
http://www.socialwork.uiuc.edu/people/Testa.html...
Testa is an associate professor of social work, a child welfare researcher and former research director for the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services. For 30 years, he has provided leadership on research and public engagement to improve the lives of children and families involved in the income assistance and child protection systems. Testa is the architect of several major child welfare innovations in Illinois, including the Home of Relative Reform in 1995 and the federal Subsidized Guardianship Demonstration in 1997. He is leading the evaluations of replications of the Illinois subsidized guardianship demonstration project in the states of Wisconsin and Tennessee. 

 

Marta Tienda Ph.D., Research Associate, Professor
Office of Population Research
Princeton University
Wallace Hall
Princeton, NJ 08544-2091
609.258.5808; tienda@princeton.edu
http://lotka.princeton.edu/~tienda/...
In addition to being director of the Office of Population Research, Tienda is a professor of sociology and public affairs at Princeton University. Her research focuses on social inequalities regarding race and ethnic differences, such as poverty, welfare, education and employment.

 

Michael Wald
Jackson Eli Reynolds Professor of Law, Emeritus
School of Law
Stanford University
Crown Quad 215
Stanford, CA 94305
650.723.0322; mwald@stanford.edu
http://www.law.stanford.edu/faculty/wald...
Wald has had a distinguished career as an academic researcher and teacher. A leading national authority on legal policy toward children, he drafted the American Bar Association’s Standards Related to Child Abuse and Neglect, as well as major federal and state legislation regarding child welfare. Wald served as deputy general counsel for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services during the Clinton Administration, executive director of the San Francisco Department of Human Services, and senior adviser to the president of the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation.

 

Margy Waller
Project Director
Center for Community Change
1536 U Street NW
Washington, DC 20009
202.339.9300; info@communitychange.org
http://www.communitychange.com.org...
After leaving her position as a Visiting Fellow at the Brookings Institution, Waller became Director of the Center for Community Change's project "The Mobility Agenda: New Ideas for Low-wage Work." Waller served as Senior Advisor for Welfare and Working Families at the White House Domestic Policy Council in the Clinton Administration. Prior to that, Waller she was Senior Fellow for Social Policy and Director of the Working Families Project at the Progressive Policy Institute (PPI) where she focused on welfare policy, working families and urban issues.

 

James Weidman, Director
Editorial Services, Communications and Marketing
Heritage Foundation
214 Massachusetts Ave. NE
Washington, DC 20002
202.546.4400; james.weidman@heritage.org
http://www.heritage.org...
The think tank formulates and promotes conservative public policies based on the principles of free enterprise, limited government, individual freedom and traditional American values. Its domestic research covers economics, education, family and marriage, health care and more.

 

Heather Weiss, Director
Harvard Family Research Project
Harvard University
Harvard Graduate School of Education Harvard Graduate School of Education
3 Garden Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
617.495.9108;hfrp@gse.harvard.edu
http://www.gse.harvard.edu/hfrp/about/bios/heather...
Dr. Weiss also is a senior research associate and lecturer at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. The HFRP's mission is to help create more effective practices, interventions and policies to support children's successful development from birth to adulthood.

 

Rebecca Wind, Senior Communications Associate
Alan Guttmacher Institute
120 Wall St.
New York, NY 10005
212.248.1111, ext. 2203; rwind@guttmacher.org
http://www.agi-usa.org/...

Paul Wise M.D., Professor of Child Health and Society
Center for Health Policy, Center for Primary Care and Outcomes Research
Stanford University
117 Encina Commons
Stanford, CA 94305-6019
650.725.5645;  pwise@stanford.edu
http://healthpolicy.stanford.edu/mediaguide/paulhw...
Wise’s areas of study focus on the health of children, women and families, particularly children's health policy; disparities in health outcomes by race, ethnicity and socioeconomic status; and the impact of medical technologies on disparities in health outcomes. Before coming to Stanford in July 2004, he was a professor of pediatrics at Boston University and vice chief of Social Medicine and Health Inequalities at Brigham and Women's Hospital. Earlier, he directed emergency and primary care services at the Children's Hospital of Boston, and he led the Harvard Institute for Reproductive and Child Health. He also has served as a special expert at the National Institutes of Health and as special assistant to the Surgeon General.

 

Min Zhou Ph.D., Professor
Departments of Sociology and Asian American Studies
UCLA

264 Haines Hall, Box 951551
Los Angeles, CA 90095
310.825.3532; mzhou@soc.ucla.edu
http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/soc/faculty/zhou/...
Zhou’s main areas of research are international migration; ethnic and racial relations; education and the new second generation; immigrant youth; Asia and Asian Americans; and urban sociology. She is the author of “Chinatown: The Socioeconomic Potential of an Urban Enclave” (Temple, 1992); co-author of “Growing up American: How Vietnamese Children Adapt to Life in the United States” (Russell Sage Foundation, 1998); co-editor of “Contemporary Asian America: a Multidisciplinary Reader” (New York University Press, 2000); and co-editor of “Asian American Youth: Culture, Identity, and Ethnicity” (Routledge, 2004). She is writing a book entitled “Chinatown, Koreatown and Beyond: Social Capital Conducive to Education in Los Angeles’ Immigrant Communities.”

 

Edward Zigler Ph.D., Director
Bush Center in Child Development and Social Policy
Department of Psychology

Yale University
310 Prospect St.
New Haven, CT 06511
203.432.9935; edward.zigler@yale.edu
http://www.yale.edu/bushcenter...
Zigler is a Sterling Professor of Psychology. His areas of interest include: Social policy, child development, preschool education and daycare. As former director of the Office of Child Development, Zigler was responsible for administering the Head Start Program and was instrumental in establishing innovative programs such as Health Start, Home Start, Education for Parenthood and the Child and Family Resource Program. The goal of the center is to bring research-based knowledge of child development to federal and state policy arenas. The Head Start Research Unit conducts research and policy analysis related to Head Start and other early childhood programs.

 

Laurie Zoloth Ph.D., Director, Professor
Medical Humanities and Bioethics; Religion
Center for Genetic Medicine
750 N. Lake Shore Dr., 6th floor
Chicago, IL 60611-625
312.503.4621; lzoloth@northwestern.edu
http://www.cgm.northwestern.edu/faculty%20bios/zol...
Zoloth is director of bioethics at Northwestern University’s Center for Genetic Medicine. Her research focuses on ethics regarding religion and science, justice in health care and ethical issues in genetics, particularly abortion and stem-cell research.

 

 

Greg Acs, Senior Research Associate
Income and Benefits Policy Center
Urban Institute
2100 M St. N.W.
Washington, DC 20037
202.261.5522; gacs@ui.urban.org
http://www.urban.org/bio/GregoryAcs.html...
Acs studies welfare policy and the well-being of low-income families and children. He has examined the spending patterns of low-income working families with children; the impact of welfare reform on children's living arrangements and how those affect child well-being; federal and state welfare-to-work policies and programs; and welfare dynamics, income inequality and employer-sponsored health insurance.

 

Enola Aird, Director
The Motherhood Project
Institute for American Values
1841 Broadway, Suite 211
New York, NY 10023
203.250.0637; EGAird@juno.com
http://www.motherhoodproject.org/...
The project seeks to promote national conversations, and social, cultural, and policy changes informed by the diverse voices and views of all mothers - mothers employed in the workforce and mothers who are not; mothers of all races, backgrounds, and points of view; mothers who want to focus on mothers’ needs and rights; and mothers who also want to address the needs and rights of children. Aird spent several years in corporate law before working at the Children's Defense Fund in Washington, D.C., directing its violence prevention program and serving as acting director of its Black Community Crusade for Children.

 

Jeanne Allen, President and Founder
Center for Education Reform (CER)
1001 Connecticut Ave NW
Suite 204
Washington, DC 20036
202.822.9000; cer@edreform.com
http://www.edreform.com/index.cfm?fuseAction=secti...
CER creates opportunities for and challenges obstacles to better education for America's communities. CER seeks to combine education policy with grassroots advocacy to work within the nation's communities to foster positive and bold education reforms. CER advocates reforms that produce high standards, accountability and freedom, such as strong charter school laws, school choice programs for children most in need, common sense teacher initiatives, and proven instructional programs.

 

Ellen Bassuk M.D., President
National Center On Family Homelessness
181 Wells Ave.
Newton Centre, MA 02459
617.964.3834, Ext. 10; ellen.bassuk@familyhomelessness.org
http://www.familyhomelessness.org...
Dr. Bassuk researches the impact of homelessness and the roles of violence, trauma and mental illness. She has worked on applied research projects like the Worcester Family Research Study, a comprehensive longitudinal study of sheltered homeless and low-income housed families and their children. Dr. Bassuk is currently project director for the National Child Traumatic Stress Initiative's National Collaborative for Trauma-Surviving Homeless Children, directs the National Resource Center on Homelessness and Mental Illness, and is technical project director for the federal Chronic Homelessness Initiative.

 

Gary Bauer, President
American Values
2800 Shirlington Road
Suite 950
Arlington, VA 22206
703.671.9700; gary.bauer@mail.amvalues.org
http://www.ouramericanvalues.org/...
Bauer is chairman of the political action committee, the Campaign for Working Families, and president of American Values, an organization focused on issues such as marriage, culture and education. Previously he was president of the Family Research Council for ten years. Prior to joining FRC, Bauer served in President Ronald Reagan's administration for eight years, during the last two years as the president's chief domestic policy advisor.

 

Laura Beavers, Research Associate
Kids Count
Annie E. Casey Foundation
701 St. Paul St.
Baltimore, MD 21202
410.223.2975; lbeavers@aecf.org
http://www.aecf.org/kidscount/...

The annual Kids Count Data Book is a national and state-by-state project of the Casey Foundation to track the status of children in the United States. Data from the 2008 “Right Start for America’s Newborns” report are available. State- and city-level data on birth outcomes are available on the online database, Kids Count Data Center, which allows users to generate custom graphs, maps, ranked lists, and state-by-state profiles; or download the entire data set. The 2007 Kids Count Data Book, to be released on June 26, 2007, looks at the goal of permanence or ensuring that every child and young person served by the child welfare system achieves a lifelong family connection. Alternative Kids Count contact: William O'Hare, senior fellow, Annie E. Casey Foundation; WOhare@aecf.org; 410.547.6600, ext. 2049; 443.472.7434 (cell)

 

Michael L. Benjamin, Executive Director
National Council on Family Relations (NCFR)
3989 Central Ave., N.E., Suite 550
Minneapolis, MN 55421
763.781.9331 Ext. 21; mbenjamin@ncfr.org
http://www.ncfr.com...
NCFR is a nonpartisan, nondenominational membership organization for family researchers, educators, policymakers and practicing professionals. It publishes the Journal of Marriage and Family. NCFR produced a series of fact sheets related to current family policy and relevant family issues available on its Web site.

 

Helen Blank, Director of Leadership and Public Policy
National Women's Law Center
11 Dupont Circle, N.W., # 800
Washington, DC 20036
202.588.5180; hblank@nwlc.org
http://nwlc.org/index.cfm...
The National Women's Law Center works on getting new laws on the books and enforced; litigating ground-breaking cases in state and federal courts all the way to the Supreme Court; and educating the public about ways to make the law and public policies work for womenand their families. The center's focus is on education, employment, family economic security, and health -- with special attention given to the needs of low-income women and their families.

 

David Blankenhorn, President
Institute for American Values
1841 Broadway, Suite 211
New York, NY 10023
212.246.3942; info@americanvalues.org
http://www.americanvalues.org/html/about_david_bla...
The institute is a private, nonpartisan organization devoted to contributing intellectually to the renewal of marriage and family life, and to the sources of competence, character and citizenship in the United States.

 

Tanya Broder, Staff Attorney
Public Benefits
National Immigration Law Center
1212 Broadway, Suite 1400
Oakland, CA 94612
510.663.8282, Ext. 307; Broder@nilc.org
http://www.nilc.org...

 

Brett Brown Ph.D., Director of Social Indicators Research
Child Trends
4301 Connecticut Ave. N.W., Suite 100
Washington, DC 20008
202.362.5580, ext. 6052; bbrown@childtrends.org
http://www.childtrends.org...
Brown manages numerous projects related to the development and use of social indicators of child and family well-being at the international, national and state levels. Other areas of research interest include single-father families and the determinants of successful transitions from youth to adulthood.

 

B.J. Bryant, Executive Director
Education
American Association for Employment in Education (AAEE)
3040 Riverside Drive, Suite 125
Columbus, OH 43221
614.485.1111; aaee@osu.edu
http://www.aaee.org/...
AAEE disseminates information on the educational marketplace, promote ethical standards and practices in the employment process and provide opportunities for training, networking, and the exchange of information between educators. Bryant is an expert on the market for teachers, such as teacher shortages and supply and demand.

 

Jane Rinzler Buckingham, President
Youth Intelligence
9 West 10th Street
New York, NY 10011
212.982.5428;  info@youthintelligence.com
http://www.youthintelligence.com/...
Youth Intelligence is a research and trend analysis service for the youth market. It works with clients on projects such as marketing, brand positioning and new product development.

 

Donna M. Butts, Executive Director
Generations United
1333 H St., NW
Suite 500 W
Washington, DC 20005
202.289.3979; DButts@gu.org
http://www.gu.org...
Donna M. Butts is executive director of Generations United, the only national membership organization focusing on intergenerational policies, strategies and programs. Generations United represents more than 100 national, state and local organizations that, in turn, represent more than 70 million Americans; it also houses the National Center on Grandparents and Other Relatives Raising Children. The organization’s mission is to improve the lives of children, youth and older people through intergenerational collaboration, public policies and programs. Butts has almost 30 years of experience working with nonprofit organizations. She serves on several boards, including the International Consortium of Intergenerational Programmes. She is also a speaker and author, publishing book chapters on kinship care and the intergenerational field. She is a graduate of Marylhurst College in Oregon. She was honored in 2004 with the National Council on the Aging’s Jack Ossofsky award for leadership, creativity and innovation in programs and services for older persons.

 

Steven Camarota, Director of Research
Center for Immigration Studies
1522 K St. N.W., Suite 820
Washington, DC 20005
202.466.8185; sac@cis.org
http://www.cis.org...
The center supports admitting fewer immigrants to the United States but providing “a warmer welcome” for those who have been admitted. It conducts research and policy analysis of the economic, social, demographic, fiscal and other impacts of immigration on the U.S. Research director Steven Camarota is author of a 2007 report that found that immigrants and their U.S.-born children account for one in four people living in poverty and that they’ve contributed to nearly three-fourths of the increase in the uninsured population since 1989. His most recent report is “How Many Americans.”

 

James Carr M.S., Chief operating officer
National Community Reinvestment Coalition
727 15th St. N.W.
Suite 900
Washington, DC 20005
jcarr@ncrc.org
www.communityinvestmentnetwork.org...
Carr manages day-to-day operations for the coalition, formed in 1990 to increase the flow of private capital into -- and improve banking and credit services in -- underserved communities. Members include community development corporations, civil rights groups, community reinvestment advocates, local and state government agencies, and churches. Previously, Carr served as senior vice president of innovation and research for the Fannie Mae Foundation, a private nonprofit organization devoted to affordable housing. He also is a visiting professor of urban planning at Columbia University. Before moving to the foundation in 1996, Carr served as vice president for housing research at Fannie Mae. Earlier, he worked as assistant director for tax policy for the U.S. Senate Budget Committee and as a research associate at Rutgers University’s Center for Urban Policy Research. He has published and lectured extensively on housing and urban policy, housing finance, community reinvestment, personal financial services, and state and local finance. Editor of the scholarly journal Housing Policy Debate since 1991, he also edited the Journal of Housing Research from 1991 to 2003. He co-edited the book “Replicating Microfinance in the United States” (Fannie Mae Foundation, Woodrow Wilson Center and Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003) and edited “The New Imperative for Housing Equality” (forthcoming).

 

David Carrier, Outreach Director
Child Trends
4301 Connecticut Ave., NW, Suite 350
Washington, DC 20008
202.572.6138; dcarrier@childtrends.org
http://www.childtrends.org/...

The nonprofit, nonpartisan research center studies children at every stage of development. It is a key source of information on a wide range of topics, including early childhood development, foster care and adoption, education, teen sex and pregnancy, and marriage and family. The Child Trends DataBank is a one-stop source for the latest national trends and research on more than 100 key indicators of child and youth well-being. Its recent reports include “Child Care Use by Low-Income Families: Variations Across States.” The nonprofit, nonpartisan organization provides research guidance to improve policies, programs and practices affecting children and their families. Its major research areas include: early childhood and youth development; child welfare; education; health; teen sex and pregnancy; fatherhood and parenting; and marriage and family. It studies children and youth at every stage of development and in every important subgroup (e.g., by race/ethnicity, family income, immigrant status). Its online DataBank provides the latest statistics on more than 100 indicators of well-being.

 

Nancy Coleman, Director of Communications
Economic Policy Institute (EPI)
1330 H St., NW, Suite 300, East Tower
Washington, DC 20005-4707
202.331.5546; ncoleman@epinet.org
http://www.epinet.org...
The independent, nonprofit think tank researches the impact of economic trends and policies on low- and middle-income Americans and their families. It urges government to set market standards, and it supports a strong, effective labor movement. EPI conducts research in four main areas: living standards and labor markets; government and the economy; globalization and trade; and education. It publishes “The State of Working America” every two years.

 

Sara Collins Ph.D., Assistant Vice President
Program on the Future of Health Insurance
The Commonwealth Fund
One East 75th Street
New York, NY 10021
212.606.3800; src@cmwf.org
http://www.cmwf.org/...
The Commonwealth Fund is a private foundation that promotes better access to healthcare, improved quality and greater efficiency of healthcare -- particularly for low-income people and the uninsured, minorities, children and the elderly. Collins is an economist whose responsibilities include research and policy analysis, and program management for the Fund's health care coverage and access program.

 

Kevin Cowl,  Executive Vice President
National Community Reinvestment Coalition
727 15th St., NW, Suite 900
Washington, DC 20005
202.464.2725; kcowl@ncrc.org
www.ncrc.org...
The association of more than 600 community-based institutions promotes access to basic banking services, including credit and savings, to create and sustain affordable housing, job development and vibrant communities for America’s working families. Members include community development corporations, local and state government agencies, faith-based institutions, community organizing and civil rights groups, minority and women-owned business associations and social service providers.

 

Anne Dunkelberg, Assistant Director
Center for Public Policy Priorities
900 Lydia St.
Austin, TX 78702
512.320.0222, Ext. 102; dunkelberg@cppp.org
www.cppp.org...
Dunkelberg is a senior policy analyst with the Center for Public Policy Priorities, where she focuses on policy and budget issues related to health care access, as well as general issues related to immigrants' access to public benefits. She was previously with the State Medicaid director's Office at the Texas Health and Human Services Commission, where she was primary author of the first edition of "Texas Medicaid in Perspective." 

 

Carol Emig, President
Child Trends
4301 Connecticut Ave., N.W., Suite 350
Washington, DC 20008
202.572.6003; cemig@childtrends.org
http://www.childtrends.org/...
Emig has run Child Trends since late 2006. The nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization provides guidance to improve policies, programs and decisions affecting children and their families. Its major research areas include: early childhood development; child welfare; education; youth development and the transition to adulthood; health; teen sex and pregnancy; fatherhood and parenting; and marriage and family. It studies children and youth at every stage of development and in every important subgroup (by race/ethnicity, family income, parents’ marital status, immigrant status, etc.). Child Trends’ online DataBank provides the latest statistics on more than 100 key indicators of child and youth well-being. 

 

Michael Fix, Vice President and Director of Studies
Migration Policy Institute
1400 16th St. N.W., Suite 300
Washington, DC 20036
202.266.1924; mfix@migrationpolicy.org
http://www.migrationpolicy.org/...
Fix's work focuses on immigrant integration, citizenship policy, immigrant children and families, the education of immigrant students, the effect of welfare reform on immigrants and the impact of immigrants on the U.S. labor force. Fix served as a principal research associate at the Urban Institute, where he directed the Immigration Studies Program from 1998 through 2004. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences’ panel on the redesign of the U.S. citizenship test.

 

Linda Foley, Co-Executive Director
Identity Theft Resource Center
PO Box 26833
San Diego, CA 92196
858.693.7935; itrc@idtheftcenter.org
http://www.idtheftcenter.org/...
Foley is the co-founder/director of the Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC), a nation-wide nonprofit based in San Diego that helps victims, including children, of identity theft.

 

Henry Freedman, Executive Director
National Center for Law and Economic Justice
275 7th Ave., Suite 1506
New York, NY 10001
212.633.6967; freedman@nclej.org
http://www.nclej.org/...
The National Center for Law and Economic Justice advances the cause of economic justice for low-income families, individuals and communities. The center engages in legal representation and policy advocacy to improve the administration of cash assistance, Medicaid, food stamps and child care. The Center is a recognized for using litigation to improve welfare progams.

 

Vivian Gadsden, Director
National Center on Fathers and Families
3440 Market St., Suite 450
Philadelphia, PA 19104-3325
215.573.5500; viviang@gse.upenn.edu
http://www.ncoff.gse.upenn.edu/...
NCOFF is an interdisciplinary center dedicated to research and policy analysis on father involvement and family development. Its focus includes father engagement, child support enforcement, support for young fathers, the effects of joblessness and systemic barriers to fathers’ involvement. Its research database includes more than 9,000 entries.

 

Ellen Galinsky, President
Families & Work Institute
330 Seventh Ave. 14th Fl
New York, NY 10001
212.465.2044; emgalinsky@aol.com
http://www.familiesandwork.org/...
Families and Work Institute (FWI) is a nonprofit center for research that provides data to inform decision-making on the changing workforce, changing family and changing community. Founded in 1989, it offers comprehensive research on the U.S. workforce, including "The National Study of the Changing Workforce (NSCW )." Other recent research includes "Overwork in America: When the Way We Work Becomes Too Much" and Generation & Gender in the Workplace." 

 

Peggy Gillespie, Co-Founder and Director
Family Diversity Projects
236 N. Pleasant St.
Amherst, MA 01002
413.256.0502; info@familydiv.org
http://www.lovemakesafamily.org...
Peggy Gillespie, CSW, MLS, is a journalist and co-founder/director of Family Diversity Projects, a nonprofit organization in Amherst, Mass. Gillespie is the interviewer and editor-in-chief of four award-winning photo-text exhibits and companion books produced and distributed by Family Diversity Projects: “Love Makes a Family: Portraits of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender People and their Families”; “Of Many Colors: Portraits of Multiracial Families”; “Nothing to Hide: Mental Illness in the Family”; and “In Our Family: Portraits of All Kinds of Families.” The result of Gillespie’s interviews with hundreds of families, including teens and children, these exhibits travel worldwide to colleges, museums, public libraries, schools, houses of worship, corporate headquarters, hospitals and conferences. The first two exhibits were published as books by the University of Massachusetts Press, and “Nothing to Hide” was published by New Press, Inc. Gillespie has also written numerous feature articles for magazines and newspapers, including a cover story about multiracial families for The Boston Globe Magazine. Formerly a social worker and co-founder of the Stress Reduction and Mindfulness Program at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center, Gillespie co-authored the book “Less Stress” (Signet, 1986). She has a master’s degree from the University of Oklahoma, a bachelor’s degree from Smith College, and is a certified social worker.

 

Dee Dee Gordon, Founding Partner
Look-Look
6685 Hollywood Boulevard
Hollywood, CA 90028
323.856.5555; brandy@look-look.com
http://www.look-look.com/dynamic/looklook/html/ind...
Look-Look is a research company that specializes in youth culture. Gordon has done interviews on the subject of marketing to teens, and the best way to gauge teens' preferences.

 

Libby Gray, Director
Project Reality
1701 E. Lake Avenue
Suite# 371
Glenview, IL 60025
847.729.3298; www.projectreality.org...
Project Reality specializes in the development, teaching and evaluation of abstinence programs. Gray is regularly involved in media communications on the subject of abstinence.

 

Robert Greenstein, Executive Director
Center on Budget & Policy Priorities
820 First St. N.E., Suite 510
Washington, DC 20002
202.408.4080; greenstein@cbpp.org
http://www.cbpp.org/staff/robert-greenstein.htm...
Greenstein is founder and executive director of the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. His area of expertise is the federal budget, particularly the impact of tax and budget proposals on low-income people. Greenstein has written numerous reports, analyses, op-ed pieces and magazine articles on poverty-related issues, appears on national television news and public affairs programs and is frequently asked to testify on Capitol Hill. Prior to founding the center, Greenstein was administrator of the Food and Nutrition Service at the U.S. Department of Agriculture, where he directed the agency that operates the federal food assistance programs.

 

Selena Guber, President
Children's Market Research, Inc.
1385 York Avenue
New York, NY 10021
212.794.0983; TRENDS2000@AOL.COM
http://www.kidtrends.com/about.html...
The company provides qualitative and quantitative research, trend analysis and strategic insights into the youth market. Clients include advertising agencies, the media, toy marketers, trade associations, and non-profit organizations. Guber is currently the chairperson of the American Marketing Association/N.Y, Children's Marketing Leadership Council. Guber also is the executive editor of KIDTRENDS & TARGETING TEENS, two monthly newsletters about the youth market.

 

Samuel Halperin, Founder and Senior Fellow
American Youth Policy Forum
1836 Jefferson Place, NW
Washington, DC 20036
202.775.9731; shalperin@aypf.org
http://www.aypf.org/...
Samuel Halperin is the founder of and a senior fellow at the American Youth Policy Forum in Washington, D.C. He has held leadership positions in academia, the federal government, a foundation and nonprofit organizations for over 40 years. Halperin has served as president of the Institute for Educational Leadership, deputy assistant secretary at the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare, and Congressional Fellow of the American Political Science Association, where he worked on U.S. Senate and House of Representatives committees dealing with major education legislation. He has also served as study director of Youth and America’s Future: The William T. Grant Foundation Commission on Work, Family and Citizenship.

 

James Harper, Director of Information Policy Studies
Cato Institute
1000 Massachusetts Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20001
202.789.5200
http://www.cato.org/people/harper.html...
Harper focuses on issues at the intersection of business, technology and public policy. His work focuses on the problems of adapting law and policy to the unique problems of the information age. He is editor of Privacilla.org, a Web-based think-tank devoted exclusively to privacy. He is a member of the Department of Homeland Security's Data Privacy and Integrity Advisory Committee.

 

Ron Haskins
Senior Fellow, Economic Studies
Brookings Institution
1775 Massachusetts Ave., N.W.
Washington, DC 20036
202.797.6057; rhaskins@brookings.edu
http://www.brookings.edu/scholars/rhaskins.htm...
Haskins is a senior fellow at Brookings and senior consultant at the Annie E. Casey Foundation. He co-directs Brookings’ Center on Children and Families, which disseminates research to Congress, advocates and the public. He served President George W. Bush in 2002 as a senior adviser on welfare policy. Before joining Brookings and AECF in 2000, Haskins spent 14 years working for the House Ways and Means human resources subcommittee. He edited several editions of its Green Book, a compendium that analyzes federal social programs and domestic policy issues including health care, poverty and unemployment. Haskins wrote “Work Over Welfare: The Inside Story of the 1996 Welfare Reform Law” (Brookings, 2006). He has co-edited several books, including “Welfare Reform and Beyond: The Future of the Safety Net” (Brookings, 2002).

 

Sarah Heynen, Communications Coordinator
National Partnership for Women and Families
1875 Connecticut Ave., NW, Suite 650
Washington, DC 20009
202.986.2600; info@nationalpartnership.org
www.nationalpartnership.org...
The nonprofit, nonpartisan organization, founded in 1971 as the Women’s Legal Defense Fund, promotes fairness in the workplace, quality health care, and policies that help women and men meet the dual demands of work and family. Its president is Debra L. Ness.

 

Marielena Hincapié, Director of Programs and Staff Attorney
National Immigrant Law Center (NILC)
3435 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 2850
Los Angeles, CA 90010
213.639.3900; hincapie@nilc.org
http://www.nilc.org/index.htm...
NILC focuses on immigration law, and the employment and public benefits rights of immigrants. NILC conducts policy analysis and impact litigation and provides publications, technical advice and trainings to a broad constituency of legal aid agencies, community groups and pro bono attorneys. Hincapié is director of programs, and oversees the employment, public benefits and immigration programs of the organization. She also specializes in protecting and advancing the rights of immigrant workers.

 

Wayne Ho, Executive Director
Coalition for Asian American Children & Families (CACF)
50 Broad St., Suite 1701
New York, NY 10004

212.809.4675, ext. 101; who@cacf.org
www.cacf.org...
The Coalition for Asian American Children and Families (CACF) is an advocacy organization dedicated to improving the health and well-being of Asian Pacific American children in New York City. CACF is the nation's only pan-Asian children's advocacy organization.

 

Sue Hofer, Media Relations
America's Second Harvest
35 E. Wacker Drive, Floor 20
Chicago, IL 60601
312.263.2303, Ext. 127; shofer@secondharvest.org
http://www.secondharvest.org/default.asp...
America's Second Harvest supports a network of more than 200 regional member food banks and food-rescue programs throughout the United States. In 2004, the network provided food assistance to more than 23 million low-income hungry people, including more than 9 million children.

 

Michelle Joyner, Communications Director
National Military Family Association
2500 North Van Dorn St., Suite 102
Alexandria, VA 22302-1601
703.931.663, michelle.joyner@nmfa.org
www.nmfa.org...
NMFA is a resource on issues affecting military families’ quality of life. It addresses housing, education, health care, separation and more. The Virginia-based association provides resources and support to spouses and children of those serving in the Air Force, Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Coast Guard, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the Public Health Service.

 

Wanjiru Kamau, Executive Director
African Immigrant and Refugee Foundation
1525 Newton St. NW
Washington, DC 20010
202.234.2473; airfound@aol.com
http://www.airfound.org/Home.asp...
The mission of the African Immigrant and Refugee Foundation (AIRF) is to facilitate the effective transition of African immigrants to American society and to support their productive, sustainable integration into their new homeland through mental health and relevant acculturation programs.

 

Stuart Kantor, Senior Public Affairs Associate
Urban Institute
2100 M St. NW
Washington, DC 20037
202.261.5283; skantor@urban.org
http://www.uipress.org/Template.cfm?Section=Bookst...
The nonpartisan research institute investigates, analyzes and seeks solutions to U.S. social and economic problems. It works on issues involving work and income, housing and communities, child welfare, and civic engagement and philanthropy. Urban has 10 policy centers, including those focusing on low-income working families, economic security, education, health policy, criminal justice and taxes.

 

James Kemple, Director
K-12 Education Policy Area
MDRC
16 E. 34 St., 19th Floor
New York, NY 10016-4326

212.340.8676; james.kemple@mdrc.org
http://www.mdrc.org/index.html ...
Once focused on evaluations of state welfare-to-work programs, MDRC now studies public school reforms and programs to help low-income people succeed in college. Its five main policy areas are: promoting family well-being and child development, improving public education, promoting successful transitions to adulthood and supporting low-wage workers and communities. Also see: http://www.mdrc.org/publications/428/overview.html
and http://www.betterhighschools.org/docs/NHSC_EmergingEvidenceBrief_111606F...
 

Martha Kempner, Director of Public Information
SIECUS/Sexuality Information and Education Council of the U.S.
130 W. 42nd St, Suite 350
New York, NY 10036
212.819.9770, ext 324; mkempner@siecus.org
http://www.siecus.org/...
Each year, SIECUS distributes hundreds of thousands of print and electronic resources to educators, advocates, parents, researchers, physicians and others working to expand sexual health programs, policies and understanding. SIECUS also helps individuals locate research, write accurate news articles, create sexual health curriculum and build support for high quality programs in their community.

 

Irwin Kirsch, Senior Research Director
Educational Testing Service
Rosedale Road
Princeton, NJ 08541
609.734.1516; ikirsch@ets.org
http://www.ets.org...
Kirsch was the lead author of the study, “America’s Perfect Storm: Three Forces Changing Our Nation's Future,” which examined the challenges of inadequate literacy skills, a changing economy and a diverse population and workforce.

 

Donna M. Klein, President and CEO
Corporate Voices for Working Families
1899 L St. N.W., Suite 250
Washington, DC 20036
301.380.6856; DKlein@CVWorkingFamilies.org
http://www.cvworkingfamilies.org...
Corporate Voices for Working Families is a non-partisan, non-profit corporate membership organization created to bring the private sector voice into the public dialogue on issues affecting working families.

 

Joan Kuriansky, Executive Director
Wider Opportunities for Women
1001 Connecticut Ave. N.W., Suite 930
Washington, DC 20005
202.464.1596; info@WOWonline.org
http://www.wowonline.org/default.cfm...
WOW works nationally and in its home community of Washington, D.C., to build pathways to economic independence for America’s families, women, and girls. It developed a “D.C.-Metro Area Self-Sufficiency Calculator” to help individual users and counselors learn more about the real cost of living in the area for those want to find jobs, education and training, housing, child care, health care and government benefits.

 

Claire Lerner LICSW, Director
Parenting Resources
Zero to Three
2000 M St., NW
Washington, DC 20036
202.638.1144; clerner@zerotothree.org
www.zerotothree.org...

Lerner is a licensed clinical social worker, child development specialist, and director of parenting information and resources at Zero To Three where she oversees development of all parenting content, including its web site and numerous publications. She is also the co-author of Zero To Three's parent books, "Learning & Growing Together" and "Bringing Up Baby." Lerner writes a regular column in American Baby Magazine on young children's behavior. She is frequently quoted in Parents Magazine, Parenting, Child Magazine and Fit Pregnancy. In addition, she has been quoted in numerous national daily newspapers such as the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe and London Times. Lerner has been a practicing clinician for over 17 years, providing parent education and counseling services to families with children of all ages. She also trains early childhood professionals and pediatricians on early childhood development and working effectively with parents. Lerner has participated on numerous national advisory panels and task forces related to early child development. She is currently on the Council of the National Parenting Education Network and is a liaison to the American Academy of Pediatric's Committee on Early Childhood Development.

 

Victoria Lopez, Executive Director
The Florence Project
Florence Immigrant and Refugee Rights Project
300 S Main Street
PO Box 654
Florence, AZ 85232
520.868.0191
The Florence Project is a nonprofit legal service organization that provides free legal services to men, women and children detained by the Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), formerly known as the INS.
 

Patrick McCarthy, President and CEO
Annie E. Casey Foundation
701 St. Paul St.
Baltimore, MD 21202
410.223.2852; media@aecf.org
www.aecf.org...
McCarthy oversees the foundation's work in income security; child welfare; general, reproductive and mental health; substance abuse; juvenile justice; education; and early childhood and youth development.
 

Linda Meric, National Director
9to5, National Association of Working Women
207 E Buffalo St. #211
Milwaukee, WI 53202
303.628.0925; lindam@9to5.org
www.9to5.org...
The Milwaukee-based national, grassroots membership organization works for economic justice, including family-friendly policies for low-wage women. It also supports expanding family and medical leave benefits, including minimum requirements for paid sick leave, and increasing access to childcare and other family-flexible supports through TANF and other block grants.

 

Ann Morse, Program Manager
The Immigrant Policy Project
National Conference of State Legislatures
444 North Capitol Street, N.W., Suite 515
Washington, DC 20001
202.624.8697; ann.morse@ncsl.org
http://www.ncsl.org...
The nonpartisan project represents the interests of local and state governments in dealing with federal immigration policies and programs. Based at NCSL’s offices in Washington, D.C., it’s a collaborative effort with five other organizations: the National Governors’ Association, the National Association of Counties, the U.S. Conference of Mayors, the National League of Cities and the American Public Human Services Association. The conference works to develop a comprehensive body of knowledge on state and local roles in immigrant policy and the impacts of immigrants on U.S. communities. Its Multicultural Health Project examines barriers to health care faced by immigrants, particularly immigration status and cultural and linguistic differences.

 

Debra Ness, President
National Partnership for Women & Families
1875 Connecticut Ave. N.W., Suite 710
Washington, DC 20009
202.986.2600; info@nationalpartnership.org
http://www.nationalpartnership.org...
The partnership uses public education and advocacy to promote fairness in the workplace, quality health care, and policies that help women and men meet the dual demands of work and family.

 

Jose Padilla, Executive Director
California Rural Legal Assistance
631 Howard St., Suite 300
San Francisco, CA 94105
415.777.2752; hn0097@handsnet.org
http://www.crla.org/...
Padilla's work has focused on immigration, civil rights and education law. He became legal advisor to California’s Migrant Education Parent Advisory Council and co-drafted AB 1382, the Migrant Education Statute, which addresses the special educational needs of California’s migrant children. CRLA’s legal work emphasizes assistance to the special needs of the farm worker community with cases focusing on pesticide exposure, housing, labor, education, civil rights, immigration and environmental justice.

 

Laura Rodriguez, Communication Director
Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF)
634 South Spring St.
Los Angeles, CA 90014
202.746.7825, ext. 124; lrodriguez@maldef.org
www.maldef.org...
The national nonprofit protects and promotes civil rights for 40 million Latinos living in the United States. Based in Los Angeles, with several regional offices, it handles cases involving education, employment, political access, immigration and public resource equity.

 

Roger Rosenthal, Executive Director
The Migrant Legal Action Program
2001 S Street, NW Suite 310
Washington, DC 20009
202.462.7744; HN1645@handsnet.org
http://www.mlap.org/...
The Migrant Legal Action Program (MLAP) is a national advocacy center which provides legal representation to and works on behalf of indigent migrant and seasonal farmworkers. MLAP works to enforce rights and to improve public policies affecting farmworkers' working and housing conditions, education, health, nutrition, and general welfare.

 

Marc Rotenberg, Executive Director
Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
1718 Connecticut Ave. NW
Suite 200
Washington, DC 20009
202.483.1140, ext 106; rotenberg@epic.org
http://www.epic.org/...
EPIC is a public interest research center in Washington, D.C. It was established in 1994 to focus public attention on emerging civil liberties issues and to protect privacy, the First Amendment, and constitutional values. Rotenberg teaches information privacy law at Georgetown University Law Center and has testified before Congress on many issues, including access to information, encryption policy, consumer protection, computer security, and communications privacy.

 

Diane Rowland, Executive Director
Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured
1330 G St., NW
Washington, DC 20005
202.347.5270; kcmu@kff.org
http://www.cmwf.org/profiles/profiles_show.htm?doc...
Rowland is the executive vice president of the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation and the executive director of the Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured. She is also an adjunct professor in the department of health policy and management at the Bloomberg School of Public Health of the Johns Hopkins University. Rowland is a noted authority on health policy, Medicare and Medicaid, and health care for low-income, elderly and disadvantaged populations, and has published widely on these subjects.

 

Kelly Sakai, Media Contact
Families and Work Institute
267 Fifth Ave., Floor 2
New York, NY 10016
212.981.2559; ksakai@familiesandwork.org
www.familiesandwork.org...
The nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization studies the changing workforce, family and community. It examines issues such as caregiving leave, workplace flexibility, reduced work time and increased productivity in its “2008 Guide to Bold New Ideas for Making Work Work” (www.familiesandwork.org/3w/boldideas.pdf). FWI is based in New York. The New York-based nonprofit provides research and analysis in four major areas: the workforce and workplace; education, care and community (including early education); parenting; and youth development. Ellen Galinsky is its president.

 

Paul Schmitz, President and CEO
Public Allies
633 W. Wisconsin Ave., Suite 610
Milwaukee, WI 53203
414.273.0533, ext. 16; pauls@publicallies.org
http://www.publicallies.org/au_vision.html...
Public Allies operates a leadership development program in 13 communities across the country that prepares young adults from diverse and under-represented backgrounds for careers in nonprofit and community leadership. It co-founded and co-leads the Nonprofit Sector Workforce Coalition that works to strengthen talent pipelines into the nonprofit sector and diversify pipelines into nonprofit leadership.

 

Eric Sigmon, Immigration Program Assistant
National Center for Refugee and Immigrant Children
1717 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 200
Washington, DC 20036
202.347.3507; NationalCenter@uscridc.org
http://www.refugees.org/article.aspx?id=1260&subm=...
The National Center for Refugee and Immigrant Children provides pro bono legal and social services to unaccompanied children released from detention in the United States. Sigmon provides support by reviewing and processing case referrals, matching children with pro bono attorneys, and coordinating the pro bono trainings.

 

Dan Stein, President
Federation for American Immigration Reform
1666 Connecticut Ave., NW, Suite 400
Washington, DC 20009
202.328.7004 (main); stein@fairus.org
http://www.fairus.org...
The Federation for American Immigration Reform is a national, nonprofit, public-interest membership organization of citizens that seeks to improve border security and to stop illegal immigration.

 

Paul Taylor, Acting Director
Pew Hispanic Center
1615 L St. NW
Suite 700
Washington, DC 20036-5610
202.419.3600; info@pewhispanic.org
www.pewhispanic.org...
The nonpartisan research organization aims to improve understanding of the U.S. Hispanic population and to chronicle its growing impact on the nation. Researchers have expertise in demographics, immigration and more. Based in Washington, D.C., it’s supported by The Pew Charitable Trusts. 

 

Michael Teitelbaum,Vice President
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
630 Fifth Ave., Suite 2550
New York, NY 10111
212.649.1649; teitelbaum@sloan.org
http://www.sloan.org/main.shtml...
Teitelbaum is a speaker on demographic change and immigration, an invited witness before committees of the U.S. Congress, and is a published writer in scientific journals and in national op-ed pages.

 

Mala Thakur, Executive Director
National Youth Employment Coalition
1836 Jefferson Pl., NW
Washington, DC 20036
202.659.1064; mt@nyec.org
www.nyec.org...
The nonprofit NYEC, based in Washington, D.C., is a network of more than 230 youth employment/development organizations. It works in four areas: tracking and influencing policy; setting quality standards; supporting professional development; and building organizations’ and programs’ capacity.

 

Carl Tubbesing, Deputy Director, D.C. headquarters
National Conference of State Legislatures
202.624.5400; carl.tubbesing@ncsl.org
www.ncsl.org...
The bipartisan organization serves legislators and staffs. Its experts – on subjects from child well-being and social services to family economic success to immigration – can identify trends, and its Web site suggests story ideas.

 

Barry L. Van Lare, Director
Office of Management & Consulting
National Governors Association
444 N. Capitol St.
Suite 267
Washington, DC 20001-1512
202.624.7895; bvanlare@nga.org
Van Lare serves as NGA's primary liaison to governors' chiefs of staff, assisting governors in leading and managing state government. He provides on-site consulting as well as printed and electronic informatio. He organizes an annual series of seminars for governors' office staff -- and spouses -- on best practices and duties. He also coordinates and manages the NGA biennial Seminar for New Governors. Van Lare joined NGA in 2006. Earlier, he directed the Center for Public Strategies at the Sagamore Institute for Policy Research; was senior vice president of Workforce Services, MAXIMUS; was executive director of the Welfare Information Network, The Finance Project; and served as deputy executive director, NGA; and associate commissioner for Social Security, Office of Family Assistance.

 

Ellen Vollinger, Legal Director
Food Research and Action Center (FRAC)
1875 Connecticut Ave. N.W., Suite 540
Washington, DC 20009
202.986.2200 Ext. 3016; evollinger@frac.org
http://www.frac.org...
FRAC works to improve hunger policies and conducts research to document the extent of hunger and its impact on low-income families with children. In addition to hunger trend reports, its Web site includes key state contacts for after-school and nutrition programs. http://www.frac.org/html/building_blocks/bblox_ind
ex.html

 

Michele Waslin, Director
Immigration Policy Research
National Council of La Raza
The Raul Yzaguirre Building
1126 16th St., NW
Washington, DC 20036
202.776.1735; mwaslin@nclr.org
http://www.nclr.org...
The National Council of La Raza – the largest national Hispanic civil rights and advocacy organization in the United States – works to improve opportunities for Hispanic Americans. NCLR conducts applied research, policy analysis, and advocacy, providing a Latino perspective in five key areas – assets/investments, civil rights/immigration, education, employment and economic status, and health. In addition, it provides capacity-building assistance to its affiliates who work at the state and local level to advance opportunities for individuals and families.

 

Alan Weil, Executive Director
National Academy for State Health Policy
50 Monument Square, Suite 502
Portland, ME 04101
207.874.6524; aweil@nashp.org
http://www.nashp.org...
The National Academy for State Health Policy is a non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to helping states achieve excellence in health policy and practice. NASHP conducts research into areas of vital importance to states and to those who depend on state governments for health coverage.

 

Marie Weller, President
Parents Without Partners
1650 South Dixie Highway, Suite 510
Boca Raton, FL 33432

561.391.8833; pwppres@parentswithoutpartners.org

Parents Without Partners provides single parents and their children with an opportunity for enhancing personal growth, self-confidence and sensitivity towards others by offering an environment for support, friendship and the exchange of parenting techniques.stody issues for both custodial and noncustodial parents. Resources are provided through local chapters.

 

James H. Wendorf, Executive Director
National Center for Learning Disabilities
381 Park Ave. South, Suite 1401
New York, NY 10016
212.545.7510, jwendorf@ncld.org
http://www.ncld.org/...
NCLD seeks to ensure that children, adolscents and adults with learning disabilities have every opportunity to succeed in schoo, work and life. The Web site offers state-specific resources and fact sheets.

 

Donald Whitehead, Executive Director
National Coalition for the Homeless
1012 Fourteenth St., N.W., Suite 600

Washington, DC 20005
202.737.6444; nch@ari.net
http://www.nationalhomeless.org/...

 The National Coalition for the Homeless, founded in 1984, is a national network of people who are currently experiencing or who have experienced homelessness, activists and advocates, community-based and faith-based service providers, and others committed to ending homelessness. The coalition can connect journalists with the names of over 150 regional, state and local advocates across the country.

 

Maya Wiley, Founder and Director
Center for Social Inclusion (CSI)
50 Broad St., Suite 1820
New York, NY 10004
212.248.2785; mwiley@thecsi.org
http://www.centerforsocialinclusion.org/...
The Center for Social Inclusion is a national policy advocacy organization that works to dismantle structural racism. Wiley previously was a senior adviser on race and poverty for the Open Society Institute’s U.S. programs. She also helped develop and implement the OSI’s criminal justice initiative in South Africa.

 

Joan Williams, Professor of Law, Director
The Center for WorkLife Law (WLL)
200 McAllister St.
San Francisco, CA 94102
415.565.4640; williams@uchastings.edu
http://www.uchastings.edu/?pid=3624...
Williams is an author, who researches work and family issues. Her studies focus on social psychology, conflicts between work and family, caregiving issues and workplace bias against mothers. Williams also is founding director of the Center for WorkLife Law (WLL), a research and advocacy center that seeks to eliminate employment discrimination against caregivers such as parents and adult children of aging parents.

 

Marian Wright Edelman, President
Children's Defense Fund
25 E St. NW
Washington, DC 20001
202.662.3500 work or 202.244.9004 home; cdfinfo@childrensdefense.org
http://www.childrensdefense.org...
CDF advocates for the children of America who cannot vote, lobby or speak for themselves, paying particular attention to the needs of poor and minority children and those with disabilities. CDF encourages preventive investment before children get sick, into trouble, drop out of school, or suffer family breakdown. CDF was founded in 1973 by Marian Wright Edelman; it is supported by foundation and corporate grants and individual donations. Edelman, a graduate of Spelman College and Yale Law School, began her career in the mid-60s when, as the first black woman admitted to the Mississippi Bar, she directed the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund office in Jackson, Mississippi. In l968, she moved to Washington, D.C., as counsel for the Poor People's Campaign that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., began organizing before his death. She founded the Washington Research Project, a public-interest law firm and the parent body of CDF. For two years, she served as the Director of the Center for Law and Education at Harvard University and, in l973, began the Children's Defense Fund.

 

Marci Young, Deputy Director
Center for the Child Care Workforce
555 New Jersey Avenue N.W.
Washington, DC 20001
202.662.8005; myoung@ccw.org
http://www.ccw.org/...
The center – a project of the American Federation of Teachers Educational Foundation – works to ensure that the early care and education workforce is well-educated, better paid and heard. Its provides data, recent reports and archived newsletters.

 

Andrea Young, Director of Public Policy
National Black Child Development Institute
1101 15th St. N.W., Suite 900
Washington, DC 20005
202.833.2220; ayoung@nbcdi.org
http://www.nbcdi.org...
Young is director of public policy for the National Black Child Development Institute. She has more than 20 years experience in law and public policy and has served as a legislative policy aide for Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., and chief of staff to Rep. Cynthia McKinney, D-Ga., as well as a program director for the United Church of Christ and vice president for external affairs for Planned Parenthood of Metropolitan Washington. Young is the author of “Life Lessons My Mother Taught Me” (Tarcher/Putnam, 2000) and her articles have appeared in a number of publications. She earned her bachelor’s degree from Swarthmore College and her juris doctor from Georgetown University Law Center. She was admitted to the state bar of Georgia in 1979.

 

 

Michael Bergman, Public Information Officer
U.S. Census Bureau
301.763.3046; michael.l.bergman@census.gov
http://www.census.gov/econ/census02/...
Bergman handles queries about Census economics programs. The Economic Census profiles American business every 5 years, from the national to the local level.

 

Stephen Buckner, Public Information Officer
U.S. Census Bureau
301.763.3586; stephen.l.buckner@census.gov
http://www.census.gov/acs/www/...
Buckner handles queries about the decennial and American Community Survey.

 

Lynne M. Casper Ph.D., Demographic and Behavioral Sciences Branch (DBS)
National Institute of Child Health and Human Development

Demographic and Behavioral Sciences Branch
Executive Building, Room 8B07, 6100 Executive Boulevard, MSC 7510
Bethesda, MD 20892-7510
301.496.1174; casperl@mail.nih.gov
http://www.nichd.nih.gov/cpr/dbs/...
Casper's areas of scientific responsibility include: Family and household formation, structure, behavior and processes; fertility; marriage, divorce, and cohabitation; marriage and couple relationships; work, family and health; fatherhood; child care; child support and visitation; and child well-being. The Demographic and Behavioral Sciences Branch is one of three programs in the Center for Population Research of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development.

 

W. Alan Coulter Ph.D., Project Director
National Center for Special Education Accountability Monitoring
504.556.7559; acoulter@lsuhsc.edu
http://www.monitoringcenter.lsuhsc.edu/aboutus.htm...
NCSEAM), also known as the National Monitoring Center, is federally funded by the Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP) of the U.S. Department of Education to assist states, local agencies, and OSEP in the implementation of focused monitoring and evidenced-based decision-making about compliance with federal law so that improved results are achieved for children with disabilities and their families. NCSEAM is housed at the Human Development Center at Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans.

 

Maureen Dunn, Division Director
Division of Unaccompanied Children's Services (DUCS)
Division of Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR)
370 L'Enfant Promenade, S.W., 6th Floor
Washington, DC 20447
202.401.5709; MDunn@acf.hhs.gov
http://www.acf.dhhs.gov/programs/orr/mission/ducs....
DUCS, in accordance with the Homeland Security Act of 2002, assumes responsibility for care and placement of unaccompanied alien children. It also consults with appropriate child welfare professionals and the Department of Homeland Security. It develops placement policy, decisions and recommendations to ensure that children are receiving appropriate care.

 

Shara Godiwalla, Director
Federal Agency Forum on Child and Family Statistics
301.458.4256; sgodiwalla@cdc.gov
http://www.childstats.gov/topiccontacts.asp...
A collaboration of federal agencies and departments, the forum fosters coordination in collecting and reporting federal statistics on family and social environment, economic circumstances, health and health care, physical environment and safety, behavior and education. It releases an annual report, “America’s Children: Key National Indicators of Well-being,” each July. For 2007 data, see http://www.childstats.gov/americaschildren/index.asp

For federal statistics on a range of issues, see www.fedstats.gov

 

Dolline Hatchett, Media Relations
U.S. Department of Labor
Employment Standards Administration
200 Constitution Ave., NW
Washington, DC 20210
202.693.4651; hatchett.dolline@dol.gov
http://www.dol.gov/esa/...
The DOL is charged with preparing the U.S. workforce for new and better jobs. The administration oversees compliance with the Family Medical Leave Act and with youth employment laws, among others.

 

Wade Horn Ph.D., Director
U.S. / State Government Sector
Deloitte Consulting LLP
12010 Sunset Hills Road
Suite 500
Reston, VA 20190
703.885.6000;
http://www.deloitte.com/dtt/press_release/0,1014,s...
Horn is an adviser to health and human services clients of Deloitte Consulting’s state government practice. Before joining Deloitte in 2007, he'd been assistant secretary for ACF since 2001. While there, Horn worked to increase the effectiveness of Head Start and early childhood education programs, promote positive youth development and build partnerships with community and faith-based organizations in delivering social services to the poor. Additionally, Horn launched a mentoring program for children of incarcerated parents and a public awareness campaign to help rescue victims of human trafficking. Earlier, Horn was president of the National Fatherhood Initiative. Contact Tourang Nazari in public relations at 703.885.6233 or tnazari@deloitte.com.

 

Jennifer Kaplan, Media Relations
U.S. Department of Labor
Employment and Training Administration
200 Constitution Ave., NW
Washington, DC 20210
202.693.5052; kaplan.jennifer@dol.gov
http://www.doleta.gov...
The DOL is charged with preparing the U.S. workforce for new and better jobs. The administration has many programs aimed at adults and youth.

 

Louis Kincannon, Director
U.S. Census Bureau
301.763.2135; charles.louis.kincannon@census.gov
http://www.census.gov/dmd/www/KincannonBio.html...
President George W. Bush nominated Kincannon for director of the Census Bureau on July 27, 2001, and the Senate confirmed him unanimously on March 13, 2002. He began his career as a statistician at the U.S. Census Bureau in 1963.

 

Rosalind B. King Ph.D.
Demographic and Behavioral Sciences Branch
Executive Building, Room 8B07, 6100 Executive Boulevard, MSC 7510
Bethesda, MD 20892-7510

301.496.1174; rozking@mail.nih.gov
http://www.nichd.nih.gov/cpr/dbs/dbs.htm#staff...
King's areas of scientific responsibility include: early child development; socioeconomic contexts of child/adolescent social and physical development; research using the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health; infertility and fertility; adoption; work, family, and health. The Demographic and Behavioral Sciences Branch is one of three programs in the Center for Population Research of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development.

 

Kenneth Meyer, Chief Public Information Officer
U.S. Census Bureau

4600 Silver Hill Road
Washington, DC 20233
301.763.3100; pio@census.gov
http://www.census.gov...
The bureau’s population division disseminates data on households and families in the annual Current Population Survey, released in March. The American Community Survey covers the nation as well as states, large counties and cities. The bureau also estimates net international migration for the country, states and counties. The fertility and family statistics branch, at the Suitland, Md., headquarters, provides data on childbearing and more. 

 

Martin O'Connell, Chief
Fertility and Family Statistics Branch
U.S. Census Bureau/Population Division
Room 2351, Building 3
Washington, DC 20233
301.763.2406; martin.t.oconnell@census.gov
http://www.census.gov/population/www/socdemo/hh-fa...
O’Connell is the author of many papers on fertility, child-care and demographic issues related to children, youth and families. The division collects supplemental data regarding fertility for the most current U.S. population survey.

 

Daniel Schneider Ph.D., Acting Assistant Secretary for Children and Families
Administration for Children and Families (ACF)
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
370 L'Enfant Plaza Promenade SW
Washington, DC 20201
202.690.5977; Daniel.Schneider@HHS.GOV
http://www.acf.hhs.gov/orgs/bios/schneider.htm...
Schneider became acting assistant secretary in April 2007. ACF oversees programs that promote the social and economic well-being of America’s children, youth and families. Before joining ACF, Schneider served as the general counsel at the National Endowment for the Humanities. During his NEH appointment, he spent a year as deputy associate director of the White House Office of Presidential Personnel.

 

Mark Tolbert, Deputy Public Information Officer
U.S. Census Bureau
301.763.8327; mark.tolbert.iii@census.gov
http://www.census.gov/...
The Census Bureau serves as the leading source of data about the nation's people and economy. 

 

Jack Tweedie, Program Director

Children and Families Program
National Conference of State Legislatures
1560 Broadway, Suite 700
Denver, CO 80202
303.364.7700; jack.tweedie@ncsl.org
http://www.ncsl.org/programs/press/contact.htm...
Tweedie directs the National Conference of State Legislature’s Children and Families Program. He oversees NCSL’s assistance to state legislatures on welfare and poverty, child welfare, early education and child care, and youth. His current efforts focus on state Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF) flexibility and state strategies to reduce child and family poverty. He provides technical assistance to states considering policy changes in TANF and poverty programs. He has helped the states maintain successful programs and services, improve key outcomes such as job retention and advancement for parents leaving work for welfare, while meeting the higher federal work participation rates. He leads NCSL’s effort to help states develop broad-based strategies to reduce family poverty and reduce the effects of children growing up in poverty. He also works with state officials on strengthening supports for low-income working families, collaboration between human services and other agencies, the effects of tight state budgets on human service programs and efforts to strengthen marriage and fatherhood. Tweedie has written several articles in State Legislatures magazine on welfare reform, welfare to work, and states’ efforts to support healthy marriages. Before joining NCSL in 1995, he taught political science and public policy at the University of Denver and the State University of New York at Binghamton. He has a bachelor’s degree in political science from Washington State University and a Ph.D. and a law degree from UC-Berkeley.

 

Kenneth Wolfe, ACF Acting Deputy Director
Administration on Children and Families
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
370 L'Enfant Promenade, S.W.
Washington, DC 20201
202.401.9215; kenneth.wolfe@acf.hhs.gov
http://www.acf.hhs.gov/index.html...
ACF funds state, territory, local and tribal organizations to improve the economic and social well-being of families, children, individuals and communities. It oversees roughly 60 programs involving child welfare and child support, Head Start, child care, family violence, fatherhood and marriage.