Edited by Rowena Fong, Ruby Lee Piester Centennial Professor, School of Social Work, University of Texas - Austin, Edited by James Lubben, Louise McMahon Ahearn Endowed Professor in Social Work, Boston College, and Edited by Richard P. Barth, Dean and Professor, School of Social Work Dean and Professor, School of Social Work, University of Maryland at Baltimore
Rowena Fong, EdD, MSW is the Ruby Lee Piester Centennial Professor at the University of Texas at Austin, School of Social Work. A Fellow of SSWR and AASWSW, she is the Treasurer of AASWSW, co-principal investigator of a $23M grant for the National Quality Improvement Center for Adoption and Guardianship Support and Preservation, and has authored over 100 publications, including 10 books.
James Lubben, PhD/DSW, MPH, MSW, is the Louise McMahon Ahearn Professor of Social Work at Boston College and Professor Emeritus at UCLA. He has edited 5 books and authored over 100 articles and chapters. He has been principal investigator of over $35M of extramural grants. He is a Fellow in the AASWSW and the Gerontological Society of America.
Richard P. Barth, PhD, MSW is Dean of the University of Maryland School of Social Work and Past-President of AASWSW. He has written more than 10 books and 200 articles and chapters about children's services. He has twice served as a Fulbright Scholar, received a Lifetime Achievement Award from SSWR, and is a Fellow of APA, SSWR.
Heidi L. Allen, PhD, MSW is an Associate Professor at Columbia University School of Social Work.
Christina M. Andrews, PhD, MSW, is an Assistant Professor of Social Work at the University of South Carolina.
Audrey Begun, PhD, MSW, is a Professor of Social Work at the Ohio State University.
Stephanie Cosner Berzin, Ph.D., is Assistant Dean, Doctoral Program, at Boston College School of Social Work.
Julie Birkenmaier, PhD, LCSW, is a Professor of Social Work at Saint Louis University School of Social Work.
Suzanne Brown, PhD, LMSW, is an Assistant Professor of social work at Wayne State University in Detroit.
Teri Browne, PhD, MSW is an Associate Professor at the University of South Carolina College of Social Work
Sarah Christa Butts, MSW is the Executive Director of the Grand Challenges for Social Work Initiative
Christine Callahan, PhD, is a Research Assistant Professor with the Financial Social Work Initiative (FSWI) at the University of Maryland School of Social Work.
Rocío Calvo, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor at the Boston College School of Social Work
John D. Clapp, PhD, MSW is a Professor and Executive Vice Dean at the Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work at the University of Southern California.
Claudia J. Coulton, PhD, is the Distinguished University Professor and Co-Director, Center on Urban Poverty and Community Development, Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, Case Western Reserve University
Sandra Edmonds Crewe, Ph.D., ACSW is Professor and Dean of Social Work at Howard University.
Mathieu R. Despard, MSW, PhD, is an Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan School of Social Work
Diana DiNitto, Ph.D., is the Cullen Trust Centennial Professor in Alcohol Studies and Education and Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Texas at Austin School of Social Work.
Joanna Doran, PhD, is an Assistant Professor in the California State University in Los Angeles.
Matthew W. Epperson, PhD, is an Associate Professor at the University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration and Co-Founding Director of the Smart Decarceration Initiative.
Marilyn L. Flynn, PhD is Dean and 2U Chair of Educational Innovation and Social Work in the Suzanne Dworak Peck School of Social Work at the University of Southern California.
Terri Friedline, PhD, is an Assistant Professor at the University of Kansas School of Social Welfare.
Melanie Gironda, PhD, MSW, is Director of Care Management at WISE & Healthy Aging in Santa Monica, CA.
Jeremy Goldbach, PhD, is an Assistant Professor at the USC Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work.
Ernest Gonzales, PhD, MSSW, is an Assistant Professor and Peter Paul Professor at Boston University, School of Social Work.
Annie Grier, MSW, is a Project Manager at the Center for Social Development, George Warren Brown School of Social Work Washington University in Saint Louis
J. David Hawkins, PhD, is the Endowed Professor of Prevention and Founding Director of the Social Development Research Group, University of Washington School of Social Work.
Julia Henly, Ph.D is an Associate Professor at the University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration,
Benjamin F. Henwood, PhD, MSW, is an Assistant Professor at the University of Southern California,
Jin Huang, PhD, MSW, is an Associate Professor at Saint Louis University School of Social Work.
Jacquelyn B. James, PhD, is Co-Director of the Boston College Center on Aging & Work, Research Professor in the Lynch School of Education
Jeffrey M. Jenson, Ph.D., is the Philip D. and Eleanor G. Winn Endowed Professor for Children and Youth in the Graduate School of Social Work, University of Denver.
Carrie Johnson, MSW, LCSW, is a special consultant for the University Institute on Aging and a Field Advisor in the School of Social Work at Boston College.
Raven Jones, MSW Candidate December 2017 is a Graduate Student at the University of Michigan School of Social Work,
Susan P. Kemp, PhD is the Charles O. Cressey Endowed Professor at the University of Washington School of Social Work and Professor at the University of Auckland Faculty of Education and Social Work.
Jooyoung Kong, PhD, MSW, is a recent graduate of Boston College and currently a postdoctoral fellow in the Center for Healthy Aging at the Pennsylvania State University.
Laura Lein, Ph.D. is the Katherine Reebel Collegiate Professor of Social Work and Professor of Anthropology at the University of Michigan.
Rebecca J. Macy, PhD, is the Preyer Distinguished Chair for Strengthening Families at the UNC at Chapel Hill School of Social Work.
Peter Maramaldi, PhD, MPH, LCSW, is a Professor at the Simmons College School of Social Work.
Christina Matz-Costa, MSW, PhD is an Assistant Professor in the Boston College School of Social Work and a Senior Research Associate at the Center on Aging & Work.
Robin McKinney, MSW, is Director and Co-Founder of the Maryland CASH Campaign,
Ruth McRoy, PhD, MSW is the Donahue and DiFelice Endowed Professor of Social Work at Boston College and Ruby Lee Piester Centennial Professor Emerita at the University of Texas at Austin.
Nancy Morrow-Howell, MSW, PhD, holds the Bettie Bofinger Brown Distinguished Professorship at the George Warren Brown School of Social Work at Washington University.
Michelle R. Munson, PhD, MSW is an Associate Professor at the New York University Silver School of Social Work and the Saul Cohen Chair of Child and Family Mental Health at The Jewish Board in New York City.
Deborah K. Padgett, PhD is a Professor at the Silver School of Social Work at New York University.
Yolanda C. Padilla, Ph.D. is the Clara Pope Willoughby Centennial Professor in Child Welfare at the University of Texas at Austin School of Social Work and director of the CSWE Center for Diversity and Social & Economic Justice.
Lawrence Palinkas, PhD, is the Albert G. and Frances Lomas Feldman Professor of Social Policy and Health and Chair of the Department of Children, Youth and Families in the Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work and Professor in the Departments of Anthropology and Preventive Medicine at the University of Southern California.
Carrie Pettus-Davis, PhD, is the founding director of the Institute for Advancing Justice Research and Innovation and the Smart Decarceration Initiative.
Michelle Putnam, PhD is a Professor at Simmons College, School of Social Work.
Lisa Reyes Mason, PhD, is Assistant Professor at the University of Tennessee College of Social Work
Jennifer Romich, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Social Work and Director of the West Coast Poverty Center at the University of Washington.
David Rothwell, PhD, studies and teaches courses on families, poverty, and social policy at Oregon State University.
Erika L. Sabbath, ScD, is an Assistant Professor at Boston College School of Social Work.
Leon Sawh, MPH, is a Project Manager at the Smart Decarceration Initiative, based at the University of Chicago's School of Social Service Administration.
Trina Shanks, PhD, is an Associate Professor at the University of Michigan School of Social Work.
Margaret S. Sherraden, PhD, is a Founders Professor, at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, and a Research Professor, at Washington University in St. Louis.
Michael Sherraden, PhD, is the George Warren Brown Distinguished University Professor and founding director of the Center for Social Development (CSD) <http://csd.wustl.edu/> at Washington University in St Louis.
Michael S. Spencer, PhD, MSSW, is the Fedele F. Fauri Collegiate Professor of Social Work at the University of Michigan.
Martell Teasley, PhD, is Dean of the College of Social Work at the University of Utah and serves at the Editor-in-Chief for the NASW journal Children & Schools.
Amanda Tillotson, PhD is a researcher at the University of Michigan School of Social Work.
Elizabeth M. Tracy, MSW, LISW, Ph.D., is the Grace Longwell Coyle Professor in Social Work at Case Western Reserve University..
Edwina Uehara, PhD, is Professor and Ballmer Endowed Dean, University of Washington School of Social Work, and Co-chair of the American Academy for Social Work and Social Welfare's Grand Challenges for Social Work Executive Committee.
Karina L. Walters, PhD, MSW, is the William P. and Ruth Gerberding Endowed Professor at the University of Washington School of Social Work, Director of the Indigenous Wellness Research Institute, and an enrolled member of the Choctaw Nation in Oklahoma.
Darrell P. Wheeler, PhD, MPH, ACSW is Interim Provost & Sr. VP for Academic Affairs and Vice Provost for Public Engagement at the University at Albany - SUNY.
Bradley J. Zebrack, PhD, MSW, MPH is Professor of Social Work at the University of Michigan.
Karen A. Zurlo, PhD, MSW, is an Associate Professor in the School of Social Work at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey
