DEMOGRAPHICS AND IMMIGRATION RESOURCES

  • June 06, 2009

 

DATA/REPORTS

 
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.
 
 
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. 
 
 
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. 
 
 
Who are America’s Poor Children?
National Center for Children in Poverty
http://www.nccp.org/publications/pub_843.html 
A 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.
 
 
"International Adoption: Trends and Issues," 2007
Child Welfare League of America
http://ndas.cwla.org/include/pdf/InterntlAdoption_FINAL 
The two-page brief notes that, between 1989 and 2005, 234,358 children were adopted in the U.S. from other countries. In 2005 alone, 22,710 foreign-born children were adopted by Americans, while 51,278 were adopted from the public welfare system. Little is known about the number of private adoptions in the United States, because there are no reporting requirements.
 
 
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.  
 
 
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. 
 
 
Migration Information Source
Migration Policy Institute
http://www.migrationinformation.org/ 
MPI provides analysis, development and evaluation of international migration and refugee trends at the local, national and international levels. The Source offers data, tools and essential facts on the movement of people worldwide. 
 
Cooperative State Research, Education and Extension Service;
U.S. Department of Agriculture
http://www.csrees.usda.gov/index.html
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s nationwide, noncredit educational network represents experts who provide practical, research-based information to consumers, youth, small-business owners, agricultural producers and others in rural areas and communities. Each state or territory has an office at its land-grant university and a network of local or regional offices. See the Web site for links to your own state.
 
 
“Paying the Price: The Impact of Immigration Raids on America's Children,” 2007
Institute and the National Council of La Raza
http://www.urban.org/publications/411566.html
This new report details the consequences of immigrant raids on children’s psychological, educational, economic and social well-being. 
 
 
The Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life
The Pew Charitable Trusts
http://pewforum.org/ 
The Forum gathers and disseminates objective information through polls and reports. 
 
 
Child Well-Being Index
Foundation for Child Development
http://www.fcd-us.org/initiatives/initiatives_show.htm? 
The FCD Index of Child Well-Being (CWI) is a composite measure that makes it possible to analyze national trends in overall child well-being over time. The CWI is based on 28 indicators in seven key areas of well-being beginning in 1975. 
 
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.).  
 
 
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. 
 
 
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
 
 
Data and Statistics
Administration on Children and Families, HHS
http://www.acf.hhs.gov/acf_policy_planning.html#stats 
Find statistics, publications and other data on all ACF programs including child care, child support, child welfare (including neglect/abuse and foster care), Head Start, refugees and welfare.
 
 
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
 
 
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. 
 
Pew Hispanic Center
Pew Research Center
http://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. 
 
 
Office of Refugee Resettlement
Administration on Children, Youth and Families, HHS
http://www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/orr/
ORR assists refugees and other special populations in obtaining economic and social self-sufficiency in the United States. It funds programs that offer cash and medical assistance, employment preparation and job placement, skills training, English-language training, social adjustment and aid for victims of torture. Its Web site provides monthly data reports on refugee arrivals by state of destination and country of origin, plus contact information for state refugee coordinators.
 

The Population Reference Bureau
http://www.prb.org/ 
PRB provides data, analysis and assistance with key demographic information. Its domestic programs focus on a wide range of U.S. research areas and trends, including: children and families, aging, population dynamics, rural and regional analyses, labor force, and health disparities. 
 
 
Board on Children, Youth and Families
National Academies
http://www7.nationalacademies.org/bocyf/ 
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. 
 
 
The nonprofit research organization provides analysis and effective solutions addressing challenges around the world. Its child policy division supports research and publications on issues from prenatal to age 18, yielding information to improve decisions and policies. 
 
 
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.
 
 
 
Constance Ahrons Ph.D.
Emeritus Professor of Sociology
University of Southern California
 
Address:
Department of Sociology
Los Angeles, CA 90089
 
Phone:
858.274.8943
 
 
 
Ahrons' research focuses on families in society, marriage and family therapy and gender issues. She has published several books on families and divorce, and has conducted a 20-year longitudinal study of divorced families. Other research interests have included: remarriage and stepfamilies; stresses of contemporary American families; mid-life and later life transitions; active retirement; gender issues; work and family issues; politics of "family values"; and, couples and family therapy.
 
 
Joseph P. Allen Ph.D.
Director
Virginia Adolescence Research Group
University of Virginia
 
Address:
Gilmer Hall, Room 102
Charlottesville, VA 22903
 
Phone:
804.982.4727
 
 
 
The group conducts longitudinal studies that examine the influence of social relationships on adolescent development. Allen's research focuses on adolescent social development, family relations, peer relations & problematic behaviors (ranging from delinquency and teen pregnancy to depression and anxiety). Specific topics of Allen's research include: development of peer influence and peer pressure in adolescence; prevention of teen pregnancy; and development of autonomy and relatedness in adolescent social interactions. 
 
 
Paula Allen-Meares Ph.D.
Dean and Norma Radin Collegiate Professor of Socia
University of Michigan
 
Address:
1080 S. University, 4728 SSWB
Ann Arbor, MI 48109
 
Phone:
734.764.5347
 
 
 
Allen-Meares' research interests include the tasks and functions of social workers employed in educational settings; psychopathology in children, adolescents, and families; adolescent sexuality; premature parenthood; and various aspects of social work practice.
 
 
Paul Amato Ph.D.
Sociology Professor
Penn State
 
Address:
0604 Oswald Tower
University Park, PA 16802
 
Phone:
814.865.8868
 
E-mail:
pxa6@psu.edu
 
Amato's research has focused on marital quality, divorce, parent-child relationships and the long-term consequences of patental discord and divorce for children. 
 

Eloise Anderson
Director
Program for the American Family
The Claremont Institute
 
Address:
2716 13th Street
Sacramento, CA 95818
 
Phone:
916.446.7924
 
 
 
Anderson was previously director of social services for Wisconsin and California. While directing California's welfare system, the nation's largest, Anderson led the way in crafting California's new welfare reform program, CalWORKs. As part of The Claremont Institute's contribution to the debate on California's Proposition 22, Anderson co-authored the booklet "Will Any Two Parents Do? The Essential Roles of Mothers and Fathers in the Raising of Children." She has written and presented papers on faith-based social services, marriage policy, child welfare, TANF and various issues in welfare reform. Anderson has a bachelor's degree in sociology.
 
 
Claudia Angelelli Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Spanish and Portugese
San Diego State University
 
Address:
Department of Spanish and Portuguese
5500 Campanile Drive
San Diego, CA 92182-1234
 
Phone:
619.594.1678
 
 
 
Angelelli developed the first empirically driven language proficiency and interpreter readiness test. She serves on the Board of Directors of the American Translators Association and the American Translation Studies Association and as an advisor for the National Council of Interpreters in Healthcare and Hablamos Juntos.
 
 
Morris Ardoin
Director of Communications and Public Affairs
Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University
National Center for Children in Poverty
 
Address:
215 W. 125th St., 3rd Floor
New York, NY 10027
 
Phone:
646.284.9616
 
 
 
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) 
 
 
Jeffrey Jensen Arnett Ph.D.
Research Professor
Department of Psychology
Clark University
 
Address:
950 Main St.
Worcester, MA 01610
 
Phone:
508.799.2834
 
 
 
Arnett is the author of “Emerging Adulthood: The Winding Road from the Late Teens Through the Twenties” (Oxford University Press, 2004) and “Adolescence and Emerging Adulthood: A Cultural Approach” (Prentice Hall, 2004). He has and extensively researched young adults, ages 18-29. 
 
 
Adrienne Asch Ph.D.
Professor
Biology, Ethics and the Politics of Human Reproduction
Yeshiva University
 
Address:
500 West 185th Street
New York, NY 10033
 
Phone:
212.960.5400
 
E-mail:
asch@yu.edu
 
 
Asch is the Henry R. Luce Professor in Biology, Ethics and the Politics of Human Reproduction at Wellesley College. She is currently on leave and is working at Yeshiva University in New York. Her work focuses on issues regarding human reproduction and the family. Areas of interest include abortion rights; the rights of women, minorities and the disabled; prenatal testing; the parent-child relationship; and assisted reproduction such as sperm and egg donations and surrogate motherhood.
 

Don Bailey
Director and Senior Scientist
Frank Porter Graham Child Development Center
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
 
Address:
Campus Box 8180, 105 Smith Level Rd.
Chapel Hill, NC 27599
 
Phone:
919.966.4250
 
 
 
The Frank Porter Graham Child Development Center is one of the nation's oldest multidisciplinary centers for the study of young children and their families. Most of the institute’s work addresses young children ages birth to 8 years. They have a special focus on children who experience biological or environmental factors that challenge early development and learning. 
 
 
Mary Jo Bane
Professor of Public Policy
Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy
Harvard University
 
Address:
79 JFK Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
 
Phone:
617.496.9703
 
 
 
Bane was Assistant Secretary for Children and Families at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. She also was Commissioner of the New York State Department of Social Services. She is the author of a number of books and articles on poverty, welfare, and families. She is currently doing research on the role of churches in poverty and welfare issues.
 
 
Rosalind Barnett
Executive Director
Community, Families & Work Program (CFWP)
Brandeis University
 
Address:
Brandeis University, Mailstop 079, 515 South St.
Waltham, MA 02454
 
Phone:
781.736.2287
 
 
 
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.
 
 
Richard Barth Ph.D.
Dean
School of Social Work
University of Maryland, Baltimore
 
Address:
525 W. Redwood St.
Baltimore, MD 21201
 
Phone:
410.706.7794
 
 
 
Barth's research interests include child abuse and neglect, foster care dynamics, adoption policy, shared family care, program evaluation and linkages between child welfare and juvenile justice services. He's the co-author of several books, including "Evidence for Child Welfare Policy Reform" (2005) and is co-principal investigator of the National Study of Child and Adolescent Well-Being. He has received numerous awards and was a senior Fulbright specialist in Australia in 2006.
 

Elizabeth Bartholet
Professor of Law
Law School
Harvard University
 
Address:
Cambridge, MA 02138
 
Phone:
617.495.3128
 
 
 
Elizabeth Bartholet, an expert on civil rights and family law, is the Morris Wasserstein Public Interest Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, where she has taught since 1977. She served from 1968-1972 as staff counsel for the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc., and then founded the Legal Action Center, a public interest firm in New York City focused on criminal justice and substance abuse issues. At Harvard she has, in recent years, specialized in family law issues with a particular focus on child welfare, adoption and reproductive technology. She also writes, lectures, and consults on these issues. In fall 2004 she launched a new program at Harvard called the Child Advocacy Program (CAP). She serves as CAP's Faculty Director and teaches the CAP law, policy and clinical courses. 
 
 
Vern L. Bengtson
AARP University Chair in Gerontology/Professor of Gerontology and Sociology
School of Gerontology
University of Southern California
 
Address:
3715 McClintock Ave.
Los Angeles, CA 90089
 
Phone:
213.740.8242
 
 
 
Bengtson is an expert on changing multigenerational family relationships and on grandparents and grandchildren. 
 
 
Douglas Besharov
Program Director and Professor
UMD School of Public Affairs
Welfare Reform Academy
 
Address:
4131Van Munching Hall
(AEI) 17th St. NW, Suite 1100, Washington, DC 20036
College Park, MD 20742
 
Phone:
UMD: 301.405.6341
 
 
 
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
 
Address:
3129 Art-Sociology Building
College Park, MD 20742
 
Phone:
301.405.6409
 
 
 
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.
 
 
Rebecca Bigler
Director, Professor
University of Texas at Austin
Gender and Racial Attitudes Lab
 
Address:
1 University Station A8000
Austin , TX 78712-0187
 
Phone:
512.471.6261
 
 
 
The Gender and Racial Atittudies Lab conducts research on children’s intergroup attitudes, including social stereotyping, prejudice, and discrimination. Its areas of study include the consequences of gender and racial attitudes for children’s development, how children’s intergroup attitudes affect conceptions of the self, factors that contribute to the formation of intergroup attitudes (e.g., stereotyping, prejudice, and discrimination), and mechanisms of gender and racial attitude change. 
 
 
Robert W. Blum M.D.
William H. Gates Sr. Professor of Pediatrics
Chair, Department of Population and Family Health Sciences
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
 
Address:
615 N. Wolfe St., Suite E4527
Baltimore, MD 21205
 
Phone:
410.955.3384
 
 
 
Dr. Blum’s research interests include adolescent sexuality, chronic illness and international adolescent health care issues. He was co-investigator for the National Longitudinal Study on Adolescent Health, the largest survey of American youth ever undertaken. Recently, he published a study in the American Journal of Public Health debunking the myths that race, income, and family structure can be major predictors of youth health risk behaviors.
 
 
Warren Blumenfeld
Assistant Professor
Department of Curriculum and Instruction
Iowa State University
 
Address:
N128 Lagomarcino
Ames, IA 50011-3191
 
Phone:
515.294.5931
 
 
 
Blumenfeld works on reducing bullying in schools, particularly for gay and lesbian students. He is also a member of the advisory board for Iowa State's Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Student Services. His book, "Butler Matters: Judith Butler's Impact on Feminist and Queer Studies," asserts that sexual identity and racial roles assigned by society are basic to an understanding of gender and race. Blumenfeld has published four other books, all dealing with gay, lesbian, homophobia, diversity and social justice issues. He is currently working on two other books, one on cyber-bullying and the second investigating religious oppression and Christian privilege in the United States. 
 

Deborah Both
Senior Advisor
University Of Maryland
Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement (CIRCLE)
 
Address:
School of Public Policy
College Park, MD 20742
 
Phone:
301.405.2790
 
 
 
The Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement, or CIRCLE, promotes research on the civic and political engagement of Americans between the ages of 15 and 25. Although CIRCLE conducts and funds research, not practice, the projects that it supports have practical implications for those who work to increase young people's engagement in politics and civic life. 
 
 
Margaret Bridges
Research Director
Child Development
UC Berkeley
 
Address:
2140 Shattuck #705
Berkeley, CA 94720
 
Phone:
510.642.9163
 
 
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
 
Address:
77 Massachusetts Ave., Room 9-521
Cambridge, MA 02139
 
Phone:
617.253.7956
 
 
 
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. 
 
 
Maria Cancian
Director
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Institute for Research on Poverty (IRP)
 
Address:
305 Observatory Hill Office Building
University of Wisconsin–Madison
Madison, WI 53706-1211
 
Phone:
608.263.6633
 
 
 
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. 
 
 
Arthur Caplan
Head of Medical Ethics
Center for Bioethics
University of Pennsylvania
 
Phone:
215.898.7136
 
 
 
Dr Caplan's research interests include: transplant research ethics, genetics, reproductive technologies, health policy and general bioethics. He has served on a number of national and international committees including as the Chair of the Advisory Committee to the United Nations on Human Cloning, the Chair of the Advisory Committee to the Department of Health and Human Services on Blood Safety and Availability, and the special advisory panel to the National Institutes of Mental Health on human experimentation on vulnerable subjects.
 
 
David Card Ph.D.
Professor of Economics
Department of Economics
University of California, Berkeley
 
Address:
University of California, Berkeley
549 Evans Hall #3880
Berkeley, CA 94720-3880
 
Phone:
510.642.5222
 
 
 
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. 
 
 
Gilberto Cardenas
Director
The Institute for Latino Studies
University of Notre Dame
 
Address:
McKenna Hall, Room 230
Notre Dame, IN 46556
 
Phone:
574.631.3819
 
 
 
Cardenas is also executive director of the Inter-University Program for Latino Research, a consortium of sixteen Latino-focused research centers located at major U. S. higher education institutions. His areas of study include immigration and border studies, Mexican-American Studies, and links between Latino communities in the United States and countries of origin.
 
 
Andrew Cherlin Ph.D.
Griswold Professor of Public Policy
Department of Sociology
Johns Hopkins University
 
Address:
Mergenthaler Hall/3400 Charles St
Baltimore, MD 21218
 
Phone:
410.516.2370
 
 
 
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. 
 
 
Rebecca Clark
Program Official
Demographic and Behavioral Sciences Branch
National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
 
Address:
Building 31, Room 2A32, MSC 2425
31 Center Drive
Bethesda, MD 20892
 
Phone:
301.496.5133
 
 
 
NICHD is part of the National Institutes of Health. It sponsors research on development before and after birth; maternal, child and family health; reproductive biology and population issues; and medical rehabilitation.
 
 
Jeffrey Cole
Director
Center for the Digital Future
USC Annenberg School for Communication
 
Address:
300 S. Grand Ave., Suite 3950
Los Angeles, CA 90071
 
Phone:
213.437.4433
 
 
 
The research center is conducting a long-term longitudinal study on the impact of computers, the Internet and related technologies on families and society. Also at the center are John C. Beck and Mitchell Wade, co-authors of the study “Got Game” (Harvard Business School Press, 2004), which suggests that gamers will be more successful in business than non-gamers.
 
 
Scott Coltrane Ph.D.
Professor/Associate Director
Center for Family Studies
University of California, Riverside
 
Address:
1206 Watkins Hall
Riverside, CA 92521
 
Phone:
951.827.5444
 
 
 
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
 
Address:
808 N. Rogers St.
Olympia, WA 98505
 
Phone:
360.352.8117
 
 
 
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).
 
 
Philip A. Cowan
Professor of Psychology and Director
Institute of Human Development
University of California, Berkeley
 
Address:
1123 Tolman
Berkeley, CA 94720
 
Phone:
510.643.6095
 
 
 
Cowan's research and clinical interests center on family systems and children's development. He studies how variations in children's cognitive, social and personality development and in their adaptation to school can be understood in the context of the family. With Carolyn Pape Cowan, he examined how five domains of family life combine to predict, and sometimes affect, the ability of young children to deal with the academic and social challenges of elementary and high school: (1) parents' experiences in their families of origin; (2) parents' and children's personality characteristics; (3) the parents' marital relationship quality; (4) the way in which parents and children interact; and (5) parents' outside the family-work lives and children's outside the family relationship. 
 
 
Amy Cox Ph.D.
Social Scientist
Center for the Study of Social Welfare Policy
RAND Corporation
 
Address:
1776 Main St.
Santa Monica, CA 90407
 
Phone:
310.393.0411, Ext. 6718
 
E-mail:
cox@rand.org
 
 
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
 
Address:
122 Grehan Building
University of Kentucky
Lexington, KY 40506
 
Phone:
859.257.3744
 
 
 
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.
 
 
Al Cross
Director
The Institute for Rural Journalism and Community Issues
 
Address:
122 Grehan Building, University of Kentucky
Lexington, KY 40506
 
Phone:
859.257.3744
 
 
 
The Institute for Rural Journalism and Community Issues helps non-metropolitan journalists define the public agenda for their communities, and grasp the local impact of broader issues. It interprets rural issues for metro news media, conducts seminars and publishes research and good examples of rural journalism. It helps journalists learn about rural issues, trends and events in areas they’ve never seen but 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)
 
Address:
600 Maryland Ave. S.W., Suite 550
Washington, DC 20024
 
Phone:
202.484.4242
 
 
 
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
 
Address:
Woodrow Wilson School
Princeton University
Princeton, NJ 08544-1013
 
Phone:
609.258.0340
 
 
 
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
 
Address:
133 Willard Bldg.
University Park, PA 16801
 
Phone:
814.865.0751
 
 
 
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.
 
 
Howard Dubowitz M.D.
Professor of Pediatrics and Director
Center for Child Protection
University of Maryland School of Medicine
 
Address:
22 South Greene St.
Baltimore, MD 21201
 
Phone:
410.328.8919
 
 
 
Special Interests: Failure to Thrive; General Pediatrics; Child Abuse and Neglect. Co-wrote "Handbook for Child Protection Practice" (Sage Publications, 2004) and "Neglected Children: Research, Practice, and Policy" (Sage Publications, 1999.)
 
 
Diana Eck
Professor
Comparative Religion and Indian Studies
Harvard University
 
Address:
Faculty of Arts and Sciences, University Hall
Cambridge, MA 02138
 
Phone:
617.493.1600
 
 
 
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
 
Address:
79 JFK Street
Cambridge, MA 19104
 
Phone:
617.495.2067
 
 
 
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. 
 

John Edwards
Director
Center on Poverty, Work and Opportunity
UNC School of Law
 
Address:
100 Ridge Road
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3380
 
Phone:
919.843.8796
 
 
 
Led by former U.S. Sen. John Edwards, the center's mission is to examine innovative and practical ideas for moving more Americans out of poverty and into the middle class. 
 
 
David Elkind
Professor and Chair
Child Development
Tufts University
 
Address:
Eliot Pearson Center
105 College Ave.
Medford, MA 02155
 
Phone:
617.627.3455
 
 
 
Elkind's expertise includes: cognitive and social development in children and adolescents; causes and effects of stress and anxiety on children, youth and families. He is a consultant to state education departments, clinics, mental health centers, government agencies and private foundations. Elkind co-hosted the Lifetime television series, "Kids These Days." He is currently working on a new book, tentatively titled "No Time for Play: The Over-Programmed Child." 
 
 
Robert E. Emery Ph.D.
Professor
Center for Children, Family and the Law
University of Virginia
 
Address:
102 Gilmer Hall, Box 400400
Charlottesville, VA 22904
 
Phone:
434.924.0671
 
 
 
The center researches trends in marriage and family life. Emery's research focuses on family conflict, divorce, family violence, legal and policy issues, divorce mediation, and the consequences of parental conflict on children Publications include "Marriage, Divorce, and Children's Readjustment" (1998), "Renegotiating Family Relationships: Divorce, Child Custody, and Mediation" (1994) and "The Truth About Children and Divorce" (2004).
 
 
Martha Farrell Erickson Ph.D.
Senior Fellow
University of Minnesota
Children, Youth and Family Consortium (CYFC)
 
Address:
University Gateway, Suite 270A
200 Oak Street
Minneapolis, MN 55455
 
Phone:
612.625.7849
 
 
 
Erickson is a senior fellow with the Consortium, co-chairing the Presidential Initiative on Children, Youth & Families and spearheading the development of the Center of Excellence in Children's Mental Health. She was formerly the director of the Consortium. She also is adjunct professor in both the Institute of Child Development and the Department of Family Social Science. A developmental psychologist, she specializes in parent-child attachment, child abuse prevention, and community-based approaches to strengthen families. 
 
 
Armando Favazza M.D.
Professor
Department of Psychiatry
University of Missouri - Columbia
 
Address:
One Hospital Drive
Columbia, MO 65212
 
Phone:
573.882.8913
 
 
 
Favazza has done extensive research on self-mutilation and skin-cutting. He is a Fellow of both the American Psychiatric Association and the American College of Psychiatrists, and is a co-founder of the Society for the Study of Psychiatry and Culture. 
 
 
Ronald Ferguson
Lecturer in Public Policy
Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy
Harvard University John F. Kennedy School of Government
 
Address:
Taubman-474
79 John F. Kennedy St.
Cambridge, MA 02138
 
Phone:
617.495.1104
 
 
 
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.
 
 
Glenn Flores M.D.
Director, Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Epidemiology, and Health Policy
Center for the Advancement of Underserved Children
Medical College of Wisconsin
 
Address:
8701 Watertown Plank Road
Milwaukee, WI 53226
 
Phone:
414.456.8273
 
 
 
Dr. Flores speaks nationally and internationally on Latino children's health, access to health care, and culture and clinical care. His current research includes an investigation of medical interpreter errors and their clinical consequences, studies of innovative interventions for insuring uninsured children, a randomized trial of the effectiveness of parent mentors in improving childhood asthma outcomes, and a randomized trial of a culturally appropriate weight loss intervention for overweight Latino children.
 

Tom Fricke Ph.D.
Associate Prof. of Anthropology; Senior Associate
Center for the Ethnography of Everyday Life
University of Michigan
 
Address:
426 Thompson St.
Ann Arbor, MI 48106
 
Phone:
734.763.1500
 
 
 
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.
 
 
Richard Fry Ph.D.
Senior Research Associate
Pew Hispanic Center
 
Address:
1615 L St. N.W., Suite 700
Washington, DC 20036
 
Phone:
202.419.3600
 
 
 
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.
 
 
Frank Furstenberg Ph.D.
Chair, Zellerbach Family Professor of Sociology
Network on Transitions to Adulthood
University of Pennsylvania
 
Address:
3718 Locust Walk
Philadelphia, PA 19104
 
Phone:
215.898.6718
 
 
 
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
 
Address:
3700 Walnut St., Box 58
Philadelphia, PA 19104
 
Phone:
215.573.5500
 
 
 
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. 
 
 
Francesca Gany M.D.
Founder and Director
Center for Immigrant Health/Division of Primary Care
New York University School of Medicine
 
Address:
550 First Ave., OBV, CD-402
New York, NY 10016
 
Phone:
212.263.8783
 
E-mail:
fg12@nyu.edu
 
 
Dr. Gany has an extensive background in research, curriculum development, education, and program and policy development as it relates to immigrant health. She has served on a number of projects that have increased access to healthcare for New York’s large immigrant population. She teaches primary care, immigrant health, and health policy and medical economics. 
 
 
James Garbarino Ph.D.
Maude C. Clark Chair in Humanistic Psychology; Professor
Psychology
Loyola University Chicago
 
Address:
6525 N. Sheridan Road
628 Damen Hall
Chicago, IL 60626
 
Phone:
773.508.3017
 
 
 
Garbarino researches depression in children, child abuse, psychological maltreatment, community dimensions of child maltreatment and violence prevention. 
 
 
Gary J. Gates
Research Associate
The Urban Institute
 
Address:
2100 M St. NW
Washington, DC 20037
 
Phone:
202.261.5709
 
 
 
Gates is a demographer and an expert on same-sex marriage, gay and lesbian family structure, and gay and lesbian economic well-being. He is co-author, with Jason Ost, of “The Gay and Lesbian Atlas” (Urban Institute Press, 2004), the first book to give a geographic account of America’s gay and lesbian households.
 
 
Arline T. Geronimus
Research Professor
Population Studies Center
University of Michigan
 
Phone:
734.936.0929
 
 
 
Dr. Geronimus research interests include: cultural influences on population variation in family structure and age-at-first birth; the effects of poverty, institutionalized discrimination, and residential areas on health; the strategies used by marginalized communities to mitigate the harmful health effects of poverty and structural racism; and the perturbations public policies sometimes cause in these autonomous protections.
 
 
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
 
Address:
Arts and Sciences Hall, Room 106
University of Nebraska
Omaha, NE 68182
 
Phone:
402.554.3358
 
 
 
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.
Director
Iowa Center for Immigrant Leadership and Integration
University of Northern Iowa
 
Address:
Lang Hall 221
Cedar Falls, IA 50614
 
Phone:
319.273.3029
 
 
 
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. 
 
 
Neil B. Guterman Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Columbia University School of Social Work
 
Address:
622 West 113th St.
New York, NY 10025
 
Phone:
212.854.5371
 
 
 
Neil B. Guterman, Ph.D., M.S.W., is an associate professor at the Columbia University School of Social Work, where he teaches courses in clinical practice and children and family services. He conducts research on the prevention of physical child abuse and neglect, and adolescents’ exposures to violence outside the home, funded by the National Institutes of Health, the National Institute of Mental Health and several private foundations. Guterman has published and presented widely on these topics and is the author of “Stopping Child Maltreatment Before It Starts: Emerging Horizons in Early Home Visitation Services” (Sage Publications, 2001). He has provided expert consultation on the problem of children’s exposure to violence and its prevention to federal, state and local governments, the media, private foundations and legal bodies. Guterman is the associate editor overseeing the prevention section for the APSAC Advisor, an official publication of the American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children.
 
 
Diane Halpern Ph.D.
Director
Berger Institute for Work, Family, and Children
Claremont McKenna College
 
Address:
890 Columbia Berger Institute
Claremont, CA 91711
 
Phone:
909.607.9647
 
 
 
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
 
 
Everett Henderson
Research Associate
Immigration Studies Program
Urban Institute
 
Address:
2100 M St. N.W.
Washington, DC 20037
 
Phone:
202.833.7200
 
 
 
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.
 
 
Donald Hernandez Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Sociology
SUNY at Albany
 
Address:
1400 Washington Ave.
321 Arts and Sciences
Albany, NY 12222
 
Phone:
518.442.4668
 
 
 
Hernandez’s research focuses on historical and contemporary changes in the social, demographic and economic circumstances of children in the United States. He conducted the first national study to use children as the unit of analysis in order to document the timing, magnitude and reasons for revolutionary changes experienced by children since the Great Depression. Hernandez formerly served as special assistant at the U.S. Bureau of the Census, and between 1996 and 1998 as study director for the Committee on the Health and Adjustment of Immigrant Children and Families with the Board on Children, Youth, and Families of the National Academy of Sciences and Institute of Medicine. He is author of "America’s Children: Resources from Family, Government, and the Economy" (Russell Sage Foundation, 1993). He served as senior subject matter expert for the Survey of Program Dynamics, conducted by the U.S. Bureau of the Census to assess the effects of welfare reform, particularly on children. He was chief of Marriage and Family Statistics Division at the U.S. Bureau of the Census, where he introduced innovations in national data collection, analysis, and reporting on children, families and household change.
 
 
Thomas Hertz Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Economics
Department of Economics
American University
 
Address:
4400 Massachusetts Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20016
 
Phone:
202.885.2756
 
 
 
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
 
Address:
Kresge Building, Room 723
Boston, MA 02115
 
Phone:
617.432.3914
 
 
 
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. 
 
 
Ruth-Arlene Howe MSW
Professor
Boston College Law School
 
Address:
Law School
EW322
Boston, MA
 
Phone:
617.552.4377
 
 
 
Howe has written extensively regarding family law, foster care, adoption and child abuse and neglect. She was a member of the Board of Advisors for the 2002 PBS television film Outside Looking In: Transracial Adoption in America, and she has been a member of the Study Group on Intercountry Adoption since 1990. 
 
 
Kathy Hudson
Director
Genetics and Public Policy Center
Johns Hopkins University
 
Address:
1717 Massachusetts Ave., NW, Suite 530
Washington, DC 20036
 
Phone:
202.663.5971
 
 
 
Hudson is the founder of the Genetics and Public Policy Center and is an Associate Professor in the Berman Bioethics Institute, Institute of Genetic Medicine, and the Department of Pediatrics at The Johns Hopkins University. Hudson founded the Center to focus exclusively on public policy issues raised by advances in human genetics. Her special interests include the scientific, legal, ethical and social issues related to human reproductive genetic technologies, genetic testing, gene transfer and human cloning. 
 
 
Peter Jaffe Ph.D.
Special Advisor on Violence Prevention
Centre for Children and Families in the Justice System
London Family Court Clinic
 
Address:
254 Pall Mall St., Suite 2F
London, Ontario, N6A5P6 CANADA
 
Phone:
519.679.7250, Ext. 109
 
 
 
Jaffe is the founding director for the Center for Children and Families in the Justice System and a special adviser on violence prevention for the center. The Canadian organization is a children's mental health center specializing in issues that bring children and families into the justice system. He is a member of the clinical adjunct faculty for the department of psychology and professor for the department of psychiatry at the University of Western Ontario. Most of Jaffe's clinical work and research involves children and adolescents involved with police or the courts, either as offenders or victims of family violence or custody disputes. He also works with individuals traumatized by violence in childhood or adult relationships. He has been a trustee for the London Board of Education since 1980 where he has helped develop violence prevention programs in the school system. Jaffe was a member of the federally appointed Canadian Panel on Violence Against Women. He has co-authored numerous books, chapters and articles. Jaffe's awards include the Commemorative Medal for the 125th anniversary of the confederation of Canada for his contributions to the community. His doctorate degree is in clinical psychology from the University of Western Ontario.
 
 
Jerome Kagan Ph.D.
Professor
Psychology
Harvard University
 
Address:
33 Kirkland St, Room 1514
Cambridge, MA 02138
 
Phone:
617.495.3870
 
 
 
Kagan's research, on the cognitive and emotional development of a child during the first decade of life, focuses on the origins of temperament. Kagan’s research indicates that shyness and other temperamental differences in adults and children have both environmental and genetic influences. 
 
 
Scott Keeter Ph.D.
Director of Survey Research
The Pew Research Center for the People & the Press
Pew Research Center
 
Address:
1615 L Street, NW
Suite 700
Washington, DC 20036
 
Phone:
202.419.4362
 
 
 
The center is a nonpartisan "fact tank" that conducts public opinion polling and social science research. It does not take positions on policy issues. Keeter provides methodological guidance to all of the Pew Research Center’s projects. He is an election night analyst of exit polls for NBC News. 
 

Maria Kefalas Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Sociology
St. Joseph's University
 
Address:
College of Arts and Sciences
5600 City Ave., 139 Post Hall
Philadelphia, PA 19131
 
Phone:
610.660.2618
 
 
 
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
 
Address:
333 East Superior Street, Suite 464
Chicago, IL 60611
 
Phone:
312.695.1677
 
 
 
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
 
Address:
1775 Massachusetts Ave., NW
Washington, DC 20036
 
Phone:
202.797.6310
 
 
 
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
 
Address:
65-30 Kissena Blvd.
Flushing, NY 11367
 
Phone:
718.997.3056
 
 
 
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
 
Address:
1776 Main St.
Santa Monica, CA 90407
 
Phone:
310.393.0411, Ext. 6289
 
 
 
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. 
 

Jane Knitzer
Director
National Center for Children in Poverty
Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University
 
Address:
215 W. 125th St., Third Floor
New York, NY 10027
 
Phone:
646.284.9600
 
 
 
A psychologist, Knitzer has spent her career in policy research and analysis of issues affecting children and families, including mental health, child welfare and education policy. She is dedicated to the study of how public policies can improve outcomes of low-income children and better support families, particularly those who are most vulnerable. She wrote a landmark 1982 report on children’s mental health, "Unclaimed Children: The Failure of Public Responsibility to Children and Adolescents in Need of Mental Health Services." Knitzer serves on the New York State Permanent Judicial Commission on Justice for Children and the board of Family Support America. Among her many awards, she received the first Nicolas Hobbs Award for Distinguished Service in the Cause of Child Advocacy from the American Psychological Association.
 
 
Virginia Knox
Director
Work, Community, and Economic Security
MDRC
 
Address:
16 East 34 Street
19th Floor
New York , NY 10016-4326
 
Phone:
212.532.3200
 
 
 
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. 
 
 
Jill Korbin Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Anthropology
Case Western Reserve University
 
Address:
210 Mather Memorial Bldg, 11220 Bellflower Rd
Cleveland, OH 44106
 
Phone:
216.368.2278
 
 
 
Korbin is a cultural and medical anthropologist. She served on the National Research Council's Panel on Research on Child Abuse and Neglect, and the Institute of Medicine's Panel on Pathophysiology and Prevention of Adolescent and Adult Suicide. She is co-director of the Schubert Center for Child Development and of the Childhood Studies Program. She has published numerous articles on culture and child maltreatment and has published and conducted research on women incarcerated for fatal child maltreatment; cross-cultural childrearing and child maltreatment; health, mental health and child rearing among Ohio's Amish population; and on the impact of neighborhood factors on child maltreatment and child well-being. 
 

Teresa D. LaFromboise
Associate Professor
School of Education
Stanford University
 
Phone:
650.723.1202
 
 
 
LaFromboise focuses on stress-related problems of ethnic minority youth. She is currently investigating parental drinking, parenting, and alcohol use among American Indian adolescents. She teaches seminars on Counseling Theories and Interventions from a Multicultural Perspective, American Indian Mental Health and Education, and Racial and Ethnic Identity Development. 
 
 
Nancy Landale Ph.D.
Director
Population Research Institute
Pennsylvania State University
 
Address:
713 Oswald Tower
University Park, PA 16802-6207
 
Phone:
814.863.7276
 
 
 
Besides directing the institute, Landale is a professor of sociology and demography. Her research focuses on family patterns and health outcomes of U.S. racial and ethnic minorities, especially Hispanic populations. She's a nationally recognized scholar in family demography, father involvement, immigration, race and ethnicity, and morbidity and mortality. She has written extensively about issues such as family structure and marriage, racial self-identification, infant health and poverty. 
 
 
Annette Lareau Ph.D.
Professor of Sociology
Department of Sociology
Center for the Advanced Study of the Behavioral Sciences, University of Maryland, College Park
 
Address:
2112 Art-Sociology Building
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742
 
Phone:
301.405.9369
 
 
 
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.
 
 
David Lazer Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Public Policy
John F. Kennedy School of Government
Harvard University
 
Address:
T362
79 J.F. Kennedy St.
Cambridge, MA 02138
 
Phone:
617.496.0102
 
 
 
Lazer studies the legal implications of genetic databases, and is completing books on presidential control over the regulatory process and the use of DNA in the criminal justice system. He has also coauthored a series of papers on the diffusion of information among interest groups, and between interest groups and the government. 
 
 
Sharon M. Lee
Professor
Sociology
Portland State University
 
Address:
P.O. Box 751
Portland, OR 97207
 
Phone:
503.725.3962
 
E-mail:
lees@pdx.edu
 
 
Lee is an expert on Asian-American immigration and population trends.
 
 
Jodie Levin-Epstein
Deputy Director
Center for Law & Social Policy

Address:
1616 P St. NW, Suite.150
Washington, DC 20036

Phone:
202.328.5174 or 202.328.5

E-mail:
jodie@clasp.org

Web:
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

 
Phillip Levine
Economics
Wellesley College
 
Address:
Wellesley College
106 Central Street
Wellesley, MA 02481
 
Phone:
781.283.2162
 
 
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. 
 
 
Susan Lewis
Communications Director
National Sexual Violence Resource Center
 
Address:
123 North Enola Drive
Enola, PA 17025
 
Phone:
717.728.9740
 
 
 
The NSVRC is a comprehensive collection and distribution center for information, research and emerging policy on sexual violence intervention and prevention. The NSVRC provides an extensive online library and customized technical assistance, as well as coordinates National Sexual Assault Awareness Month initiatives. 
 
 
M. Elena Lopez
Senior Consultant
Harvard Family Research Project
Harvard Graduate School of Education
 
Address:
1525 Gretel Lane
Mountain View, CA 94040
 
Phone:
650.938.6462
 
 
 
M. Elena Lopez is a Senior Research Consultant at the Harvard Family Research Project. Her research interests focus on the relationships of families, schools and communities in children's education. She has also evaluated public and philanthropic initiatives to improve the well-being of children and families. As a co-founder of the Family Involvement Network of Educators, Elena seeks to improve the connections between research and practice and to advance educator preparation in family involvement in education. Her other professional experiences include lecturing at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, providing technical assistance on capacity building for family involvement, and serving on national advisory and governing boards. Publications include Paths to School Readiness, Early Childhood Reform in Seven Communities, and Family Centered Child Care. Elena received her Ph.D. in Anthropology from Harvard University.
 
 
Kristin Luker Ph.D.
Professor of Sociology
Jurisprudence and Social Policy
University of California, Berkeley
 
Address:
2240 Piedmont Ave.
Berkeley, CA 94720
 
Phone:
510.642.4038
 
 
 
In 1994, the White House solicited her testimony on teenage pregnancy. Her book "Abortion and the Politics of Motherhood" was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. Luker has received several awards, including Ford and Guggenheim fellowships, a National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship and the Outstanding Faculty Award from the Alumni Association of UCSD. 
 

Jennifer Manlove Ph.D.
Senior Research Associate and Director
DataBank, Fertility and Family Structure Content Area
Child Trends
 
Address:
4301 Connecticut Ave. N.W., Suite 100
Washington, DC 20006
 
Phone:
202.362.5580
 
 
 
Manlove has worked on research projects examining teenage sexuality, pregnancy and childbearing. Her current research assesses demographic trends in sexual activity, contraceptive use and childbearing among American teens and young adults. Dr. Manlove has also been involved in several projects that assess the potential effects of community context, including welfare policies, on teenage and nonmarital childbearing in the U.S. 
 
 
Kent Markus
Associate professor, Director
National Center for Adoption Law & Policy
Capital University
 
Address:
Capital University Law School
303 E. Broad St.
Columbus, OH 43215
 
Phone:
614.236.6500
 
 
 
Markus is on leave from the law school, serving as chief legal counsel to Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland. Markus is founding director of the center, which is dedicated to child welfare and adoption systemic reform. He teaches in an extensive array of law fields, including adoption, criminal and administrative. Before coming to Capital in 1998, Markus was the U.S. Justice Department's deputy chief of staff and Attorney General Janet Reno's highest-ranking adviser. During his five years at Justice, Markus oversaw national implementation of the Brady Law and the 1994 Crime Act. He served as founding director of the Office of Community-Oriented Policing Services (COPS) and as the department's point person on crime policy, particularly juvenile crime and gun violence. Earlier, Markus was the Democratic National Committee's chief of staff. 
 

Rebecca Maynard Ph.D.
Professor
Graduate School of Education
University of Pennsylvania
 
Address:
3700 Walnut Street Room 409
Philadelphia, PA 19104
 
Phone:
215.898.3558
 
 
 
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/evalabstinence.pdf
 
 
Monica McGrath Ph.D.
Adjunct Associate Professor of Management Faculty
Wharton School of Business
University of Pennsylvania
 
 
 
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
 
Address:
265 Wallace Hall
Princeton University
Princeton, NJ 08544
 
Phone:
609.258.5894
 
 
 
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
 
Address:
300 N. Ingalls, 10th Floor
Ann Arbor, MI 48109
 
Phone:
734.764.2443
 
 
 
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. 
 

Ruth McRoy
Associate Dean for Research, Ruby Lee Piester Cent
Center for Social Work Research
University of Texas at Austin
 
Address:
1 University Station D3500
Austin, TX 78712
 
Phone:
512.471.0551
 
 
 
McRoy's areas of focus include: Open adoptions, outcomes for birthmothers, adoptive parents and adopted children, trans-racial adoptions, family preservation, special needs adoptions, post adoption services, female sexual abuse perpetrators, racial identity issues, adolescent pregnancy, effectiveness of residential treatment services. 
 
 
Barbara Medina Ph.D.
Director, English Language Acquisition Unit
ELAU
Colorado Department of Education
 
Address:
201 E. Colfax Ave Rm40
Denver, CO 80203
 
Phone:
303.866.6758
 
 
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
 
Address:
Columbia University School of Social Work
1255 Amsterdam Ave.
New York, NY 10027
 
Phone:
212.851.2406
 
 
 
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.
 
 
Meredith Minkler
Professor, Community Health Education and Health and Social Behavior
School of Public Health, Health and Social Behavior
University of California, Berkeley
 
Address:
316 Warren Hall
Berkeley, CA 94720
 
Phone:
510.642.4397
 
 
 
Minkler is an expert on grandparents raising grandchildren. She has studied their physical and mental health and the impact of welfare reform on their families.
 
 
Steven Mintz Ph.D.
John and Rebecca Moores Professor of History
College of Liberal Arts
University of Houston
 
Address:
548 Agnes Arnold Hall
Houston, TX 77204-3003
 
Phone:
713.743.3109
 
 
 
Mintz is the national co-chair of the Council on Contemporary Families and president of H–Net: Humanities and Social Sciences Online. He is the author of such books as “Huck’s Raft: A History of American Childhood” (Harvard, 2004), which was named Outstanding Scholarly Book of 2004 by the Association of American Publishers, and “Domestic Revolutions: A Social History of American Family Life” (Free Press, 1988). His Web site www.digitalhistory.uh.edu has been honored by the National Endowment for the Humanities EDSITEment project.
 
 
Maria Robledo Montecel Ph.D.
Executive Director
Intercultural Development Research Association (IDRA)
 
Address:
5835 Callaghan Rd., Suite 350
San Antonio, TX 78228
 
Phone:
210.444.1710
 
 
 
IDRA has conducted research in immigrant education, including a study on the impact of NAFTA, commissioned by the Texas Education Agency and the Texas Governor’s Office. Through its project, Creative Collaboratives: Empowering Immigrant Students and Families Through Education, IDRA coordinated two community collaboratives that addressed the educational needs of secondary-level recent immigrant students. 
 
 
Kristin Moore
President and Senior Scholar
Child Trends, Inc.
 
Address:
4301 Connecticut Ave. NW, Suite 100
Washington, DC 20008
 
Phone:
202.572.6000, ext. 6002
 
 
 
Moore is a social psychologist who studies trends in child and family well-being, the effects of family structure and social change on children, the determinants and consequences of adolescent parenthood, and the effects of welfare and welfare reform on children. She is a member of the Family and Child Well-being Research Network established by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. 
 
 
Barbara Needell Ph.D.
Principal Investigator
Child Welfare Research Center
University of California at Berkeley
 
Address:
120 Haviland Hall
Berkeley, CA 94720
 
Phone:
510.642.1893
 
 
 
Needell's interests include administrative data and child welfare services; foster care reform (Family to Family Initiative); the overrepresentation of black children in the child welfare system; and infants in foster care. 
 

Katherine Newman
Professor of Sociology and International Affairs
Sociology/Woodrow Wilson School
Princeton University
 
Address:
151 Wallace Hall
Princeton, NJ 08544
 
Phone:
609.258.8723
 
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. 
 
 
Steven Nock
Director and Professor of Sociology
Marriage Matters project
University of Virginia
 
Address:
University of Virginia, Sociology Department
P.O. Box 400766, Cabell 543
Charlottesville, VA 22904
 
Phone:
434.924.6519
 
 
 
Nock has investigated issues of privacy, unmarried fatherhood, cohabitation, commitment, divorce and marriage. Nock's current research is the Marriage Matters project. This ongoing project seeks to determine the role of law in marriage. Marriage Matters is a cooperative project located at the University of Virginia and at Tulane University. 
 
 
Paul Ong Ph.D.
Professor
Urban Planning, Social Welfare and Asian American Studies
University of California, Los Angeles
 
Address:
3320 Public Policy Building
University of California, Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1656
 
Phone:
310.206.2193 ext. 62193
 
 
 
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.
 
 
Gary Orfield
Director, Professor
Harvard University
Civil Rights Project
 
Address:
125 Mount Auburn St., 3rd Floor
Cambridge, MA 02138
 
Phone:
617.496.4824
 
 
 
Orfield is interested in the study of civil rights, education policy (in particular, No Child Left Behind), urban policy, and minority opportunity. He is cofounder and director of the Civil Rights Project at Harvard. Recent works include studies of changing patterns of school desegregation and the impact of diversity on the educational experiences of law students. He is co-Founder and director of the Civil Rights Project (CRP), an initiative that is developing and publishing a new generation of research on multiracial civil rights issues. CRP has produced major reports on desegregation, student diversity, school discipline, special education and dropouts. 
 

Yolanda Padilla Ph.D.
Professor of Social Work and Women's Studies
Population Research Center
University of Texas at Austin
 
Address:
School of Social Work
1 University Station D3500
Austin, TX 78712-0358
 
Phone:
512.471.6266
 
 
 
Padilla’s research focuses on racial and ethnic disparities in health and well-being in the United States, particularly among Mexican Americans. She looks at poverty, immigration, family structure, early childhood health and development, and social welfare policy. Padilla also does research on gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender populations. The Society for Social Work and Research gave her an outstanding research award for a study on factors influencing Mexican immigrants' earnings potential. 
 
 
Jeffrey Passel
Researcher
Urban Institute
 
Address:
2100 M Street, N.W.
Washington, DC 20037
 
Phone:
202.261.5678
 
 
 
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.
 
 
Peter J. Pecora Ph.D.
Professor, University of Washington School of Soci
Senior Director of Research Services
Casey Family Programs
 
Address:
1300 Dexter Ave. North, Floor 3
Seattle, WA 98109
 
Phone:
206.270.4936
 
 
 
Pecora is a leading international researcher and educator on foster care, evaluation of family-based service programs and child protection risk assessment, and the emancipation of children from out-of-home placement. 
 
 
David Popenoe Ph.D.
Co-Director
Rutgers University
The National Marriage Project
 
Address:
54 Joyce Kilmer Ave., Lucy Stone Hall B217
Piscataway, NJ 08854
 
Phone:
732.445.7922
 
 
 
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.
 
 
Alejandro Portes Ph.D.
Professor, Director
Center for Migration and Development (CMD)
Princeton University
 
Address:
Wallace Hall
Princeton, NJ 08544
 
Phone:
609.258.4870
 
 
 
In addition to his position as co-founder and director of Princeton’s Center for Migration and Development, Portes is Chair of the Department of Sociology, as well as a faculty member of Princeton’s Office of Population Research. Portes’ research interests focus on immigration, Third World urbanization, and major issues faced by the U.S. Hispanic population, such as the assimilation of second-generation immigrant. 
 
 
Kyle Pruett M.D.
Clinical Professor of Psychiatry
Child Study Center
Yale University
 
Address:
230 South Frontage Rd.
New Haven, CT 06520
 
Phone:
203.737.2490
 
 
 
Kyle D. Pruett, M.D., is a clinical professor of child psychiatry and nursing at Yale University’s School of Medicine; he also is the director of medical studies at the university’s Child Study Center. Earlier, he was president of Zero to Three: National Center for Infants, Toddlers and Families in Washington, D.C. Pruett has experience in helping the media cover child psychiatric issues. He is a contributing editor of Good Housekeeping, Parents and Child magazines. He has been a consultant to Oprah Winfrey as well as the news staff of CBS and ABC. He earned his bachelor’s degree in history and music at Yale and his medical degree from Tufts University. Pruett maintains a private practice in child and family psychiatry in New Haven.
 
 
Harrison Rainie
Project Director
Pew Internet & American Life Project
 
Address:
1615 L St. NW, Suite 700
Washington, DC 20036
 
Phone:
202.419.4500
 
 
 
The Pew Internet & American Life Project will create and fund original, academic-quality research that explores the impact of the Internet on children, families, communities, the work place, schools, health care and civic/political life. 
 

Judith Rapoport
Researcher
Child Psychiatry Branch (CPB)
National Institutes of Health
 
Address:
National Institutes of Health
10 Center Drive, NIMH, Building 10 / Room 3N202
Bethesda, MD 20892
 
Phone:
301.496.6080
 
 
 
Rapoport's areas of expertise include: Obsessive Compulsive disorders, anxiety disorders, Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD, ADD), Bipolar Disorder, Manic Depressive Illness, Borderline Personality Disorder, Depression, Eating Disorders, and Schizophrenia. 
 
 
Britt Rios-Ellis Ph.D.
Associate Professor and Director
Latino Health Professionals Project (LHPP)
California State University, Long Beach
 
Address:
1250 Bellflower Blvd.
Long Beach, CA 90840-4902
 
Phone:
562.985.4127
 
 
 
The LHPP is a scholarship and training project for Latinos designed to ameliorate the lack of Latinos in management positions in the health care professions. Rios-Ellis teaches courses in Latino health care access, human sexuality, community health and maternal/child health promotion. She is also the project director of the National Council for La Raza’s Latino Family HIV/AIDS Prevention Project. Rios-Ellis’ doctoral research at the University of Oregon studied the HIV/AIDS-related experience of migrant Latina adolescents. 
 

Alvin Rosenfeld M.D.
Psychiatrist and Author
 
Address:
4 E 89th Street
New York, NY 10128
 
Phone:
212.348.5900
 
 
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.
 
 
Rubén Rumbaut Ph.D.
Professor
School of Social Sciences
University of California, Irvine
 
Address:
3151 Social Science Plaza
Mail Code: 5100
Irvine, CA 92697
 
Phone:
949.824.2495
 
 
 
Rumbaut has co-directed the landmark Children of Immigrants Longitudinal Study since 1991. He also directs, in collaboration with a team of UCI and UCLA colleagues, a large-scale study of immigration and intergenerational mobility in metropolitan Los Angeles and does comparative research on transitions to adulthood. Rumbaut's research has focused on immigrants and assimilation, language and bilingualism, ethnic identity, intergenerational relations in immigrant families, educational achievement and aspirations, social mobility, crime and incarceration, and health and mental health. He co-wrote “Immigrant America: A Portrait” (University of California Press, 2006) and “Multiple Origins, Uncertain Destinies: Hispanics and the American Future” (National Academies Press, 2006).
 
 
Karen Sanchez-Griego
State Director
 
Address:
ENLACE New Mexico, School of Law
MSC11 6070, 1 University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM 87131
 
Phone:
505.277.0069
 
 
 
ENLACE New Mexico (“Engaging Latino Communities for Education”) is an initiative to increase opportunities for Latinos to enter and complete college. Funded by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, ENLACE operates in six other states: Arizona, California, Florida, Illinois, New York and Texas. 
 
 
John Santelli M.D.
Heilbrunn Professor of Clinical Populations & Family Health
Mailman School of Public Health
Columbia University
 
Address:
60 Haven Ave. B-2
New York, NY 10032
 
Phone:
212.304.5634
 
 
 
Dr. Santelli has written extensively on adolescent risk behaviors, family planning, HIV/STD prevention, school-based health centers, clinical preventive services, and research ethics. He was formerly Chief of Applied Sciences in the Division of Reproductive Health at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the director of School and Adolescent Health Services for the Baltimore City Health Department. Dr. Santelli has served on editorial boards for Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health, the Journal of Adolescent Health, and AIDS Education and Prevention, and he chaired the effort by the Society for Adolescent Medicine to create Guidelines for Adolescent Health Research.
 
 
Narayan Sastry Ph.D.
Research associate professor
Institute for Social Research
University of Michigan
 
Address:
426 Thompson St., Box 1248
Ann Arbor, MI 48106-1248
 
Phone:
734.936.0462
 
 
 
At the center, Sastry focuses on child health, international child poverty, ethnic disparities, health insurance coverage of immigrants, and the effects of neighborhood and family on children’s well-being. He's also a senior social scientist for the RAND Corp., where he co-directs the Los Angeles Family and Neighborhood Survey, a longitudinal study. Sastry is the principal investigator for several other National Institutes of Health grants to analyze children’s health and development. He's examining the effects of Hurricane Katrina on family resettlement patterns and the future population of New Orleans. 
 

Ritch Savin-Williams
Professor
Clinical and Developmental Psychology
Cornell University
 
Address:
G77C Martha Van Rensselaer Hall
Ithaca, NY 14853-4401
 
Phone:
607.255.0849
 
 
 
Savin-Williams' current research interests focus on the psychological well-being of same-sex attracted youth and adults. Emphasis is placed on developmental processes among sexual minorities, especially differential developmental trajectories, identity development, relations with family, and gender nonconformity. 
 
 
Nancy Segal Ph.D.
Producer/Director
Psychology
California State University, Fullerton
 
Address:
800 N. State College Blvd
Fullerton, CA 92834
 
Phone:
714.278.2142
 
 
 
Segal is the director of the Twin Studies Center at California State University, Fullerton. In addition she is an associate editor for the journal Twin Research and Human Genetics. Her studies include the biology of twinning, twin research methodology, findings on intelligence, personality, mental disorders and athletic prowess, twin relationships, and genetic and environmental influences on human behavior.
 
 
Kristine Siefert
Associate Director and Professor of Social Work
Center for Poverty, Risk and Mental Health
University of Michigan
 
Address:
1080 S. University, 2846 SSWB
Ann Arbor, MI 48109
 
Phone:
734.763.6201
 
 
 
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
 
Address:
2100 M St NW
Washington, DC 20037
 
Phone:
202.261.5283 (press)
 
 
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
 
Address:
1775 Massachusetts Ave., NW
Washington, DC 20036
 
Phone:
202.797.6241
 
 
 
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.
 
 
Brian Skotko
Harvard Medical School
Harvard University
 
Phone:
617.432.0442 (press)
 
 
 
Skotko authored the study, "Prenatally diagnosed Down syndrome: Mothers who continued their pregnancies evaluate their health care providers" released March 1, 2005 in the "American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology". For the study, Brian surveyed 2,945 mothers of children with Down syndrome from five parent support groups in five different states (CA, CO, MA, NC, RI). 
 
 
Christian Smith
Co-Principal Investigator
National Study of Youth and Religion
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
 
Address:
CB# 3057
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3057
 
Phone:
919.918.5294
 
 
 
The National Study of Youth and Religion is a research project being conducted under the direction of Dr. Christian Smith, Professor in the Department of Sociology. The project began in August 2001 and will continue until December 2007. The project is designed to enhance our understanding of the religious lives of American adolescents and includes a national telephone survey of youth and their parents, as well as in-depth interviews with a sub-sample of these youth. 
 
 
Anastasia Snyder Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Rural Sociology and Demography
Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology
Ohio State University
 
Address:
135 Campbell Hall
1787 Neil Avem
Columbus, OH 43210
 
Phone:
614.688.4169
 
 
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. 
 
 
Debora Spar Ph.D.
Professor of Business Administration, Director of Research
Harvard University
Harvard Business School
 
Address:
Soldiers Field
Boston, MA 02163
 
Phone:
617.495.6000
 
 
 
Spar's research focuses on issues of foreign trade and investment. Other areas of study include the Internet, economic policymaking, sweatshop labor, human rights and the pharmaceutical industry. She is widely quoted in reference to her latest book, The Baby Business (Harvard Business School Press 2006), which examines the politics of reproductive science, such as egg donation, stem cell research, human cloning, surrogacy, and gender selection. 
 
 
Judith Stacey
Professor of Contemporary Gender and Sexuality Studies and Sociology
Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality
New York University
 
Address:
285 Mercer St., Room 306
New York, NY 10003
 
Phone:
212.992.9547
 
 
 
Stacey is an expert on gender, sexuality and same-sex parenting. Stacey was previously the Streisand Professor of Contemporary Gender Studies and professor of sociology at the University of Southern California. Her primary research and teaching interests focus on the relationship between social change and the politics of gender, family and sexuality.
 
 
Peter Stearns
Provost
History
George Mason University
 
Address:
4400 University Drive
Mason Hall D109
Fairfax, VA 22030
 
Phone:
703.993.8776
 
 
 
Stearns is a social historian whose research has focused on U.S. and European social and cultural history. Recent research has focused on parenting.
 
 
Ruth Striegel-Moore Ph.D.
Professor and chairwoman
Psychology
Wesleyan University
 
Address:
Wesleyan University
Middletown, CT 06459
 
Phone:
860.685.2328
 
 
 
Striegel-Moore's areas of focus are etiology and the treatment of eating disorders, and gender and psychopathology. She has done studies about minorities and eating disorders, such as bulimia and anorexia. 
 
 
Carola Suárez-Orozco Ph.D.
Co-Director of Immigration Studies, Chair and Professor
Steinhardt School of Education
New York University
 
Address:
239 Greene St., East Building Room 408
New York, NY 10003
 
Phone:
212.998.5282
 
E-mail:
cso2@nyu.edu
 
 
Suárez-Orozco is the Co-Director of Immigration Studies @ NYU. Prior to moving to NYU, Dr. Suárez-Orozco co-directed the Harvard Longitudinal Immigrant Student Adaptation Study, an interdisciplinary research project examining the adaptations of Central American, Chinese, Dominican, Haitian, and Mexican immigrant adolescents to American schools. She is the author of Children of Immigration and numerous other books and articles.
 
 
Andrew Sum
Director, Professor of Economics
Center for Labor Market Studies
Northeastern University
 
Address:
360 Huntington Ave.
Boston, MA 02115
 
Phone:
617.373.2242
 
 
 
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).
 
 
Marta Tienda Ph.D.
Research Associate, Professor
Office of Population Research
Princeton University
 
Address:
Princeton University
Wallace Hall
Princeton, NJ 08544-2091
 
Phone:
609.258.5808
 
 
 
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.
 
 
James Trussell
Director, Office of Population Research
 
Address:
Woodrow Wilson School
Princeton University
Princeton, NJ 08544-1013
 
Phone:
609.258.4946
 
 
 
Trussell also is the John Foster Dulles Professor in International Affairs; director of the Program in Population Studies; and professor of Economics and Public Affairs. His recent research has been focused in three areas: emergency contraception, contraceptive failure and the cost-effectiveness of contraception. He has actively promoted making emergency contraception more widely available as an important step in reducing the incidence of unintended pregnancy and the need for abortion; in addition to his research on this topic, he maintains an emergency contraception website (not-2-late.com) and designed and launched a toll-free emergency contraception hotline (1-888-NOT-2-LATE).
 
 
M. Belinda Tucker Ph.D.
Professor
Psychiatry & Biobehavioral Sciences
University of California, Los Angeles
 
Address:
SBG Box 62 - NPI
760 Westwood Plaza
Los Angeles, CA 90024
 
Phone:
310.825.0285
 
 
 
M. Belinda Tucker is a social psychologist at the University of California at Los Angeles. Tucker has written numerous articles on marriage and personal relationships, including the Russell Sage Foundation volume, "The Decline in Marriage Among African Americans: Causes, Consequences and Policy Implications." She has participated in the direction of a number of landmark studies, including the National Survey of Black Americans in 1979. In collaboration with anthropologist Claudia Mitchell-Kernan and with funding from the National Institute of Mental Health and the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, she conducted a 21-city national survey that examined the social context and social and psychological correlates of family formation behaviors and attitudes. They are currently conducting a five-year follow-up to that study. She is also currently working with Keith Kernan on an ethnographic examination of transition to adulthood in three culturally distinct groups of African-descended adolescents in Los Angeles. Other research interests include inter-ethnic relations and the psychosocial impact of cancer. Tucker serves on a number of national panels, including the Family Research Consortium III and the African American Mental Health Research Program Advisory Board. She received her undergraduate training at the University of Chicago and her doctorate from the University of Michigan.
 
 
Francisco Villarruel Ph.D.
Professor of Family and Child Ecology
Michigan State University
 
Address:
1407 S. Harrison Road
East Lansing, MI 48823-5286
 
Phone:
517.432.1317
 
 
 
Villarruel also is a senior research associate with MSU's Institute for Children, Youth and Families and the Julian Samora Research Institute, a policy research center focused on Latinos. Villarruel studies Latino youth and families, positive youth development, and developmental contextualism. He co-wrote "Lost Opportunities: The Reality of Latinos in the U.S. Criminal Justice System" (2004), which looked at factors underlying Latinos' overrepresentation and the special problems associated with prosecuting and treating substance abusers. Villarruel was co-principal investigator of a study that found Latino and Latina youth receive disparate and more punitive treatment than their white peers charged with the same types of offenses. 
 
 
Michael Wald
Jackson Eli Reynolds Professor of Law, Emeritus
School of Law
Stanford University
 
Address:
Crown Quad 215
Stanford, CA 94305
 
Phone:
650.723.0322
 
 
 
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
 
Address:
1536 U Street NW
Washington, DC 20009
 
Phone:
202.339.9300
 
 
 
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.
 
 
Judith Wallerstein
Director
Center for the Family in Transition
 
Address:
PO Box 157
Corte Madera, CA 94976
 
Phone:
415.435.3417
 
 
Wallerstein has studied the effects of divorce on children and their parents for 30 years. Her books include "What About the Kids?: Raising Your Children Before, During, and After Divorce" (Hyperion, 2003), with co-author Sandra Blakeslee; and "The Unexpected Legacy of Divorce: A 25-Year Landmark Study" (Hyperion, 2001), with Blakeslee and Julia Lewis.
 
 
Elizabeth Warren
Leo Gottlieb Professor of Law
Harvard Law School
Harvard University
 
Phone:
617.495.3101
 
 
 
Warren's areas of expertise includes: consumer debt, divorce and bankruptcy, families in bankruptcy for medical reasons, health care economics, and medical debt. Warren worked on a study released jointly by Harvard Law School and Harvard Medical School in 2/05 that found that nearly half of all Americans who file for bankruptcy do so because of medical expenses.
 
 
James Weidman
Director
Editorial Services, Communications and Marketing
Heritage Foundation
 
Address:
214 Massachusetts Ave. NE
Washington, DC 20002
 
Phone:
202.546.4400
 
 
 
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
 
Address:
Harvard Graduate School of Education Harvard Graduate School of Education
3 Garden Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
 
Phone:
617.495.9108
 
 
 
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. 
 
 
Barbara Dafoe Whitehead
Co-Director
National Marriage Project
 
Address:
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
25 Bishop Place
New Brunswick, NJ 08901
 
Phone:
732.445.7922
 
 
 
Dafoe Whitehead speaks and writes about family and child wellbeing, particularly related to marriage, divorce, teen pregnancy and sex education. Her books include "The Divorce Culture: Rethinking Our Commitment to Marriage and Family" (Alfred A. Knopf, 1997). The National Marriage Project provides research and analysis on the state of marriage in America and seeks to educate the public on the social, economic and cultural conditions affecting marital success and child wellbeing.
 
 
Min Zhou Ph.D.
Professor
Departments of Sociology and Asian American Studies
UCLA
 
Address:
264 Haines Hall, Box 951551
Los Angeles, CA 90095
 
Phone:
310.825.3532
 
 
 
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
Yale University
 
Address:
Yale University, Department of Psychology
310 Prospect St.
New Haven, CT 06511
 
Phone:
203.432.9935
 
 
 
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. 
 
 
Nicholas Zill
Director
Child & Family Study Area
Westat, Inc.
 
Address:
1650 Research Blvd., Room TA-2126
Rockville, MD 20850
 
Phone:
301.294.4448
 
 
 
Zill, a psychologist, has written on changing family behavior in the U.S. and its effects on children. He is currently heading a five-year effort to develop program performance measures for the national Head Start program, and is a senior advisor for the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, which Westat is conducting for the U.S. Department of Education. Westat is a research corporation serving agencies of the U.S. Government, as well as businesses, foundations, and state and local governments.  
 
 
 ADVOCACY/NONPROFIT EXPERTS

Ellen Bassuk M.D.
President
National Center On Family Homelessness

Address:
181 Wells Ave.
Newton Centre, MA 02459

Phone:
617.964.3834, Ext. 10

E-mail:
ellen.bassuk@familyhomelessness.org

Web:
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

Address:
2800 Shirlington Road
Suite 950
Arlington, VA 22206

Phone:
703.671.9700

E-mail:
gary.bauer@mail.amvalues.org

Web:
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.
 

Michael L. Benjamin
Executive Director
National Council on Family Relations (NCFR)

Address:
3989 Central Ave., N.E., Suite 550
Minneapolis, MN 55421

Phone:
763.781.9331 Ext. 21

E-mail:
mbenjamin@ncfr.org

Web:
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.
 

Dolores Subia BigFoot Ph.D.
Center on Child Abuse and Neglect, Native American Programs
Indian Country Child Trauma Center

Phone:
405.271.8858

E-mail:
dee-bigfoot@ouhsc.edu

Web:
http://www.icctc.org/...

The center develops trauma-related treatment protocols, outreach materials and service delivery guidelines specifically adapted and designed for Native American children and their families.
 

David Blankenhorn
President
Institute for American Values

Address:
1841 Broadway, Suite 211
New York, NY 10023

Phone:
212.246.3942

E-mail:
info@americanvalues.org

Web:
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.
 

Mahdi Bray
Executive Director
Muslim American Society

Address:
1050 17th St., NW, Suite 600
Washington, DC 20036

Phone:
202.496.1288

E-mail:
mas4freedom@aol.com

Web:
http://www.masnet.org...

The Muslim American Society Freedom Foundation is the public affairs arm of the Muslim American Society (MAS), a national grassroots religious, social and educational organization. MAS is America’s largest grassroots Muslim organization with over 50 chapters nationwide. Bray is the former president of the Coordinating Council of Muslim Organizations.
 
Tanya Broder
Staff Attorney
Public Benefits
National Immigration Law Center

Address:
1212 Broadway, Suite 1400
Oakland, CA 94612

Phone:
510.663.8282, Ext. 307

E-mail:
Broder@nilc.org

Web:
http://www.nilc.org...

 
Brett Brown Ph.D.
Director of Social Indicators Research
Child Trends

Address:
4301 Connecticut Ave. N.W., Suite 100
Washington, DC 20008

Phone:
202.362.5580, ext. 6052

E-mail:
bbrown@childtrends.org

Web:
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.
 

William Butz
President
Population Reference Bureau

Address:
1875 Connecticut Avenue, N.W., Suite 520
Washington, DC 20009

Phone:
202.483.1100

E-mail:
wbutz@prb.org

Web:
http://www.prb.org/...

The PRB offers information about reproductive health and fertility; children and families; population and the environment; and population futures—aging, inequality and poverty, migration and urbanization, and gender. Butz's research has focused on the adequacy of the scientific and technical work force in the United States; the technology transfer process that links basic science to industrial production; implications of the worldwide adoption patterns of genetically modified crops; and fertility and migration policy options for the European Union.
 

Steven Camarota
Director of Research
Center for Immigration Studies

Address:
1522 K St. N.W., Suite 820
Washington, DC 20005

Phone:
202.466.8185

E-mail:
sac@cis.org

Web:
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.”
 
David Carrier
Outreach Director
Child Trends

Address:
4301 Connecticut Ave., NW, Suite 350
Washington, DC 20008

Phone:
202.572.6138

E-mail:
dcarrier@childtrends.org

Web:
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.
 

Loralei Coyle
Director of Communications
Family Research Council

Address:
801 G St. NW
Washington, DC 20001

Phone:
202.393.2100

Web:
http://www.frc.org...

FRC advocates for the protection of a traditional view of marriage and family. It opposes abortion, homosexuality and same-sex marriage and produces policy papers through its Center for Marriage and Family Studies.
 

Susan Crockin
Attorney, Author
Adoption, Reproductive Law
Law Office of Susan L. Crockin

Address:
29 Crafts Street, Suite 500
Newton, MA 02460

Phone:
617.332.7070

E-mail:
susan.crockin@crockinlaw.com

Web:
http://www.seronosymposia.org/reproductive/cme_fac...

Crockin heads a private legal and consulting practice specializing in adoption and reproductive law. She has dealt with legal issues related to parenthood after cancer, stem-cell research, in-vitro fertilization, pre-pregnancy testing, embryo and egg donation and abortion. In addition to her law practice, Crockin has taught bioethics at Northeastern University School of Law and is an active lecturer and author.
 

Terry Cross
Executive Director
National Indian Child Welfare Association

Address:
5100 SW Macadam Ave., Suite 300
Portland, OR 97201

Phone:
503.222.4044, Ext. 112

E-mail:
tlcross@nicwa.org

Web:
www.nicwa.org...

Cross, an enrolled member of the Seneca Nation of Indians, is the association's developer and founder. He has at least 32 years of experience in child welfare, including a decade working directly with children and families. He also served on the faculty of Oregon's Portland State University School of Social Work. He has developed curricula for parents and for tribal child welfare staff. He also has written about culturally competent social services.
 


Hannan Deep
Communications director
Arab Community Center for Economic and Social Services

Address:
2651 Saulino Ct.
Dearborn, MI 48120

Phone:
313.842.5128

E-mail:
hdeep@accesscommunity.org

Web:
http://www.accesscommunity.org/
ACCESS is a human services organization committed to developing all aspects of economic and cultural life in the Arab-American community. Launched in 1971 in Dearborn, Mich., it now has with seven locations and more than 90 programs involving human and cultural services as well as advocacy.

Jane Delgado Ph.D.
President and CEO
National Alliance for Hispanic Health

Address:
1501 16th St., NW
Washington, DC 20036

Phone:
202.797.4321

E-mail:
dmorrison@hispanichealth.org

Web:
www.hispanichealth.org...

The Alliance is organized into different centers and provides Hispanics with information about health and human services. The work of the Alliance builds on the commonalities that exist among Hispanics while allowing for the unique circumstances of each community, i.e., different countries of origin, different state and local health infrastructure, and variations by generation, income and legal status.
 

Carol Emig
President
Child Trends

Address:
4301 Connecticut Ave., N.W., Suite 350
Washington, DC 20008

Phone:
202.572.6003

E-mail:
cemig@childtrends.org

Web:
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.
 

Margorie Engel Ph.D.
President
Stepfamily Association of America

Address:
25 Walnut St.
Boston, MA 02108

Phone:
800.735.0329

E-mail:
engel@neu.edu

Web:
http://www.saafamilies.org/aboutsaa/board_bios.htm...

Marjorie Engle is an author, speaker and media consultant specializing in families complicated by divorce and remarriage. Her credentials include a 38-year business career, MA in Education Program Development, MBA in Management, and PhD in Law, Policy and Society. Her stepfamily life began with husband Stephen Boyle and five teenage daughters (she's mother to two and stepmother to three). This grandmother of eight is President and CEO of the Stepfamily Association of America - the only national non-profit membership organization providing information, education, support, and advocacy for stepfamilies and those who work with them. Author of The Divorce Decisions Workbook, The Canadian Divorce Decisions Workbook, Divorce Help Sourcebook, and Weddings A Family Affair: The New Etiquette for Second Marriages and Couples With Divorced Parents, Margorie has also written numerous stepfamily financial management booklets, law journal articles, and chapters in family law and pediatric books in the U.S. and overseas.
 

Patrick Fagan
Senior Fellow
Family Research Council

Address:
801 G St.
Washington, DC 20001

Phone:
202.393.2100

E-mail:
mcd@frc.org

Web:
http://www.frc.org/get.cfm?i=BY08B09...

A former deputy assistant secretary for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Fagan joined FRC in fall 2007 as a senior fellow and director of the Center for Marriage and Religion. The center supports the study of marital stability and religion, and how the two affect happiness, physical and mental health, income and savings, educational attainment and family stability as well as negative outcomes. Earlier, Fagan spent 13 years as a fellow at the Heritage Foundation in Washington, D.C., examining the relationships among family, community and social problems. He worked for HHS during the administration of President George H.W. Bush. Before his public policy career, Fagan was a child, family and marital therapist. Contact FRC's media office at 202.637.4615.
 

Marvin Ferneau
President
National Foster Parent Association

Address:
403 W. Madison, Box 221
Montezuma, IA 50171

Phone:
641.623.3166

E-mail:
mferneau@nfpa.us

Web:
http://www.nfpainc.org/...

NFPA is a nonprofit volunteer organization that strives to support foster parents and to be a strong voice on behalf of all children. It serves foster families and the children and youth in their care through a network of affiliates in U.S. states and territories. Its headquarters are in Gig Harbor, Wash.
 

Michael Fix
Vice President and Director of Studies
Migration Policy Institute

Address:
1400 16th St. N.W., Suite 300
Washington, DC 20036

Phone:
202.266.1924

E-mail:
mfix@migrationpolicy.org

Web:
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.
 


Ellen Galinsky
President
Families & Work Institute

Address:
330 Seventh Ave. 14th Fl
New York, NY 10001

Phone:
212.465.2044

E-mail:
emgalinsky@aol.com

Web:
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."
 

Eugene Garcia
Chairman
National Task Force on Early Childhood Education for Hispanics
Phone:
480.965.1315

E-mail:
vpgarcia@asu.edu

Web:
http://www.ecehispanic.org...

Established at Arizona State University in 2004, the task force aims to improve Hispanic children’s educational readiness and close the achievement gap. Comprised of policymakers, business and community leaders, strategists, early childhood educators and researchers, the task force published a March 2007 report with statistics, major findings and policy recommendations. The site includes contacts and additional resources.
 

Dee Dee Gordon
Founding Partner
Look-Look

Address:
6685 Hollywood Boulevard
Hollywood, CA 90028

Phone:
323.856.5555

E-mail:
brandy@look-look.com

Web:
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

Address:
1701 E. Lake Avenue
Suite# 371
Glenview, IL 60025

Phone:
847.729.3298

Web:
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.
 

Rebecca Hagelin
Vice President
Communications and Marketing
Heritage Foundation

Address:
214 Massachusetts Ave NE
Washington, DC 20002-4999

Phone:
202.675.1761 (media)

E-mail:
staff@heritage.org

Web:
http://www.heritage.org/...

Hagelin has championed the pro-family message in both Washington and around the nation for some twenty years. She is the author of "Home Invasion: Protecting Your Family in a Culture That's Gone Stark Raving Mad" (Nelson Current, 2005) and a weekly syndicated column on social/cultural issues as seen through the eyes of a mother. She is vice president of communications and marketing at The Heritage Foundation, whose vision is to "Create an America where freedom, opportunity, prosperity and civil society flourish."
 


James Harper
Director of Information Policy Studies
Cato Institute

Address:
1000 Massachusetts Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20001

Phone:
202.789.5200

Web:
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.
 


Roderick Harrison Ph.D.
Director
DataBank
Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies

Address:
1090 Vermont Ave. NW, Suite 1100
Washington, DC 20005

Phone:
202.789.6374

E-mail:
rharrison@jointcenter.org

Web:
http://www.jointcenter.org/DB/index.htm...

Harrison's expertise is demographic trends among African Americans. He is the founding director of DataBank, an online clearinghouse of data on African Americans and other ethnic populations. Previously he served as chief of the U.S. Census Bureau's Racial Statistics Branch where he helped to expand the content and number of the Bureau's publications and releases on racial and ethnic populations. In 1998, the American Statistical Society awarded him the Roger Herriot Award for Innovations in Federal Statistics for his work in revising the racial and ethnic classifications used by all federal agencies and efforts in developing new classifications on race and ethnicity for the 2000 Census.
 


Charles Haynes
Director
Education
First Amendment Center

Address:
1101 Wilson Blvd.
Arlington, VA 22209

Phone:
703.528.0800

E-mail:
chaynes@freedomforum.org

Web:
http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/biography.aspx...

The First Amendment Center works to preserve and protect First Amendment freedoms through information and education. The center serves as a forum for the study and exploration of free-expression issues, including freedom of speech, freedom of the press and of religion, and the rights to assemble and to petition the government. Haynes is best known for his work on religious liberty issues in schools and communities throughout the nation.
 

Paul Hetrick
Vice President, Media Relations
Focus on the Family

Address:
8605 Explorer Drive
Colorado Springs , CO 80920

Phone:
719.531.3336

E-mail:
hetricpl@fotf.org

Web:
http://www.family.org...

Focus on the Family, is devoted to spreading Christian doctrine and preserving traditional family values, particularly the traditional institution of marriage.
 


Wayne Ho
Executive Director
Coalition for Asian American Children & Families (CACF)

Address:
50 Broad St., Suite 1701
New York, NY 10004

Phone:
212.809.4675, ext. 101

E-mail:
who@cacf.org

Web:
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.
 


Peter Hodges
Marketing Manager
Search Institute

Address:
615 First Avenue NE, Suite 125
Minneapolis, MN 55413

Phone:
612.692.5525

E-mail:
peterh@search-institute.org

Web:
www.search-institute.org...

The Minneapolis-based nonprofit organization researches child and adolescent development and studies how communities attend to young people’s needs. Its Developmental Assets framework identifies 40 critical factors for young people’s growth and development.
 

Dennis Hunt Ph.D.
Executive Director
Center for Multicultural Human Services

Address:
701 W. Broad St., Suite 305
Falls Church, VA 22046

Phone:
703.533.3302, ext. 111

E-mail:
dhunt@cmhs.org

Web:
http://www.cmhs.org/...

CMHS provides a broad range of multilingual mental health, educational, consulting, training and social services to immigrants and refugees. Hunt is a clinical psychologist who previously directed a foster care program for refugee children. He has consulted for the media, school systems and human service programs throughout the United States and Canada on refugee mental health issues.
 

Judith Jackson MSW
National Office Consultant
National Association of Black Social Workers (NABSW)

Address:
2305 Martin Luther King Ave. S.E.
Washington, DC 20020

Phone:
202.678.4570

E-mail:
nabsw.harambee@verizon.net

Web:
http://www.nabsw.org...

NABSW was founded to address the social welfare needs of black people across the country. Jackson focuses the organization’s efforts in four areas: family preservation/child Welfare, youth development, health and wellness and civil liberties. Jackson is also interested in issues regarding blacks and education, family and community.
 

Susan Jekielek Ph.D.
Research Associate
Social Indicators
Child Trends

Address:
4301 Connecticut Ave, NW, Suite 350
Washington, DC 20008

Phone:
202.572.6054

E-mail:
sjekielek@childtrends.org

Web:
www.childtrends.org...

Susan Jekielek, Ph.D., is a research associate for Child Trends, a nonpartisan research organization dedicated to improving the lives of children by conducting research and providing science-based information. Her concentration is in family research, and her work has examined the impacts of family status and family processes for children’s emotional well-being. She also studies parental work characteristics and their implications for both family stability and family relationships. Jekielek has a doctorate in sociology from The Ohio State University.
 

Germonique Jones
Director of Media Relations
Center for Community Change

Address:
1536 U St. N.W.
Washington, DC 20009

Phone:
202.339.9331

E-mail:
gjones@communitychange.org

Web:
www.communitychange.org

The progressive social justice organization analyzes and translates policies affecting a broad swath of very low- to moderate-income people. It helps grass-roots groups – involved in issues such as affordable housing, income supports, economic justice and immigrants’ rights – build capacity to affect policies at all levels.

Karen Jorgenson
Executive Director
N/A
National Foster Parent Association

Address:
7512 Stanich Lane, #6
Gig Harbor, WA 98335

Phone:
800.557.5238

E-mail:
kjorgenson@NFPAinc.org

Web:
www.NFPAinc.org...

Jorgenson leads the NFPA, which since 1972 has supported foster parents in achieving safety, permanence and well-being for the children and youth in their care. Its members -- at least 1,600 -- include both foster parents and the agencies through which they're involved. A former foster parent, Jorgenson adopted two children.
 
Wanjiru Kamau
Executive Director
African Immigrant and Refugee Foundation

Address:
1525 Newton St. NW
Washington, DC 20010

Phone:
202.234.2473

E-mail:
airfound@aol.com

Web:
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

Address:
2100 M St. NW
Washington, DC 20037

Phone:
202.261.5283

E-mail:
skantor@urban.org

Web:
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

Address:
16 E. 34 St., 19th Floor
New York, NY 10016-4326

Phone:
212.340.8676

E-mail:
james.kemple@mdrc.org

Web:
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...
 

Beverly LaHaye
Founder, Chairman
Concerned Women for America

Address:
1015 Fifteenth St. N.W.
Suite 1100
Washington, DC 20005

Phone:
202.488.7000

The mission of CWA is to protect and promote Biblical values among all citizens - first through prayer, then education, and finally by influencing society - thereby reversing what the members believe to be a decline in moral values in our nation.
 
Claire Lerner LICSW
Director
Parenting Resources
Zero to Three

Address:
2000 M St., NW
Washington, DC 20036

Phone:
202.638.1144

E-mail:
clerner@zerotothree.org

Web:
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

Address:
300 S Main Street
PO Box 654
Florence, AZ 85232

Phone:
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.
 
Elizabeth Marquardt
Affiliate Scholar
Institute for American Values

Address:
1841 Broadway, Suite 211
New York, NY 10023

Phone:
212.246.3942

E-mail:
info@americanvalues.org

Web:
http://www.americanvalues.org...

Marquardt authored a study about the effect of divorce on children. She currently is researching and writing a book on the moral and spiritual lives of children of divorce.
 

Joe S. McIlhaney Jr. M.D.
Founder, Chairman
The Medical Institute

Address:
1101 S. Capital of TX Highway
Building B, Suite 100
Austin, TX 78746

Phone:
512.328.6268

E-mail:
dcampos-nemoto@medinstitute.org

Web:
http://www.medinstitute.org/...

The Medical Institute is designed to confront the world epidemics of nonmarital pregnancy and sexually transmitted disease with incisive health care data. Dr. McIlhaney was appointed to the Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS in 2001.
 

 
 
Mary Moreno
Senior communications specialist
Center for Community Change

Address:
1536 U Street NW
Washington, DC 20009

Phone:
202.339.9316

E-mail:
mmoreno@communitychange.org

Web:
www.communitychange.org

The progressive social justice organization analyzes and translates policies affecting a broad swath of very low- to moderate-income people. It helps grass-roots groups – involved in issues such as affordable housing, income supports, economic justice and immigrants’ rights – build capacity to affect policies at all levels.

 
C. Kevin Morrison
Attorney
Bryant Law Firm

Address:
950 Kennedy Building
321 S. Boston Ave.
Tulsa, OK 74103-3313

Phone:
918.587.4200

Web:
http://www.bryantlaw.com...

Kevin Morrison is an attorney and child advocate. Formerly of Tulsa Children's Law, he handles legal matters involving children, including representing parents and children involved in juvenile court proceedings, adoptions, guardianships and special education matters. Morrison has significant experience in the juvenile court system. In 1994 he began representing children in abuse and neglect cases on a pro bono basis while continuing his commercial litigation practice. A few years later he left private practice to become an assistant district attorney in Tulsa County’s juvenile court, where he handled a civil child abuse docket adjudicating custody and termination of parental rights issues. In 2001 he became a judge in the Tulsa County juvenile court where he was responsible for emergency custody hearings and the juvenile delinquency detention docket. In 2002 Morrison moved to the Washington, D.C. area, serving as a senior attorney with the National Juvenile Justice Prosecution Center, where he trained juvenile court prosecutors, and wrote and spoke on juvenile justice issues. Morrison is a graduate of the University of Oklahoma law school and received his bachelor’s degree from Oklahoma State University.
 

Debra Ness
President
National Partnership for Women & Families

Address:
1875 Connecticut Ave. N.W., Suite 710
Washington, DC 20009

Phone:
202.986.2600

E-mail:
info@nationalpartnership.org

Web:
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.
 

William O'Hare Ph.D.
Senior Fellow
KIDS COUNT
Annie E. Casey Foundation

Address:
701 St. Paul St.
Baltimore, MD 21202

Phone:
410.547.6600, Ext. 2049

E-mail:
WOhare@aecf.org

Web:
http://www.kidscount.org...

O’Hare is a senior fellow at Casey and a visiting senior fellow at the University of New Hampshire’s Carsey Institute. At Casey, he has worked on Kids Count, a national and state-by-state effort that tracks the status and well-being of U.S. children, since 1990. He directed the project from 1993 to 2006. At Carsey, he joins in policy research on youth and working families in small cities and rural communities. Earlier, the social demographer directed policy studies at the Population Reference Bureau in Washington, D.C., and population and policy research at the University of Louisville’s Urban Studies Institute. O’Hare has testified before Congress on issues related to measurements of poverty and race. He has served on an advisory committee to the U.S. Census Bureau and as president of the Southern Demographic Association.
 

David Osher
Managing Research Scientist and Director
Center for Effective Collaboration and Practice
American Institutes for Research, Pelavin Research Center

Address:
1000 Thomas Jefferson St. N.W., Suite 400
Washington, DC 20007

Phone:
202.944.5373

E-mail:
dosher@air.org

Web:
http://cecp.air.org/ or http://cecp.air.org/vc/top...

Osher focuses his work on knowledge use, violence prevention, schoolwide and community-wide interventions for youth with emotional and behavioral disorders and their families, and building meaningful collaborations at federal, state, and local levels. Osher is Principal Investigator of The Center for Effective Collaboration & Practice; The Technical Assistance Partnership for Child and Family Mental Health; The National Center for Mental Health Promotion and Violence Prevention; The National Coordinator Training and Technical Assistance Center for the Safe and Drug Free Schools Program; The National Evaluation and Technical Assistance Center for the Education of Children and Youth Who Are Neglected, Delinquent, or At Risk; and of research that focuses on the impact of specific types on prevention and treatment interventions. Osher has authored, co-authored, or edited over 150 books, monographs, chapters, articles, and reports. He helped the U. S. Department of Education develop The National Agenda for Improving Results for Children and Youth with Serious Emotional Disturbance and is an expert on making collaboration work.
 


Jose Padilla
Executive Director
California Rural Legal Assistance

Address:
631 Howard St., Suite 300
San Francisco, CA 94105

Phone:
415.777.2752

E-mail:
hn0097@handsnet.org

Web:
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.
 

Eboo Patel Ph.D.
Founder and Executive Director
Interfaith Youth Core

Address:
1111 N. Wells, Ste. 501
Chicago, IL 60610

Phone:
312.573.8941

E-mail:
eboo@ifyc.org

Web:
http://www.ifyc.org...

A religious scholar and interfaith leader, Patel established the Chicago Interfaith Youth Core to encourage young people to strengthen their religious identities. He is the co-editor of "Building the Interfaith Youth Movement" (Rowman and Littlefield, 2006) and is currently writing a book on the role of religious youth in the 21st Century with Beacon Press.
 

Mercedes Perez de Colon
Chief Programs Officer
AVANCE

Address:
118 N. Medina St.
San Antonio, TX 78207

Phone:
210.270.4630, ext. 677

E-mail:
mcolon.nat@avance.org

Web:
http://avance.org...

The AVANCE Parent-Child Education Program focuses on parent education, early childhood development, brain development, literacy, and school readiness. The program serves predominantly poor Latino families in underserved communities. AVANCE reaches more than 20,000 individuals annually in centers and chapter sites throughout Texas and Los Angeles, California.
 

Tony Perkins
President
Family Research Council

Address:
801 G St., NW
Washington, DC 20001

Phone:
202.393.2100

E-mail:
frc@sojourn.com

Web:
http://www.frc.org/...

The Family Research Council (FRC) champions marriage and family as the foundation of civilization. FRC formulates public policy that upholds the institutions of marriage and the family. It opposes abortion, homosexuality and same-sex marriage and produces policy papers through its Center for Marriage and Family Studies.
 

Adam Pertman
Executive Director
Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute

Address:
525 Broadway, Sixth Floor
New York, NY 10012

Phone:
617.332.8944

E-mail:
apertman@adoptioninstitute.org

Web:
http://www.adoptioninstitute.org...

The institute, founded in 1996, is a national nonprofit organization devoted to improving adoption policy and practice. Pertman, a former Boston Globe reporter, was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize for his writing about adoption. He is the author of "Adoption Nation" (Basic Books, 2001).
 

Ahmed Rehab
Executive Director
Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-Chicago)

Address:
28 E. Jackson Blvd., Suite 1410
Chicago, IL 60604

Phone:
312.212.1520

E-mail:
director@cairchicago.org

Web:
www.cairchicago.org/ahmedrehab.php...

Rehab is executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relation’s Chicago chapter and CAIR’s national strategic communication’s director. CAIR, based in Washington, D.C., is a nonprofit Muslim civil liberties and advocacy group promoting justice and understanding. Rehab serves on the boards of the Illinois Coalition of Immigrant and Refugee Rights and the Egyptian American Society. He’s a member of the Chicago Council on Global Affairs’ Muslim task force, and he’s an Eisenhower fellow of the American Assembly and alumnus of the FBI Citizen’s Academy. Rehab regularly contributes to the Chicago Tribune and Chicago Public Radio, and he lectures at universities in Chicago and around the nation. Before joining CAIR in August 2004, Rehab was a freelance speaker, writer and activist involved in interfaith collaboration, education and community outreach. Between 1999 and 2002, Rehab was a consultant for Arthur Andersen LLP, a global consulting firm. A software engineer by trade, Ahmed is co-founder and president of Ibex Computers, based in Des Plaines, Ill.
 

Jennifer Rodriguez
Legislative and Policy Coordinator
California Youth Connection

Address:
604 Mission St., Ninth Floor
San Francisco, CA 94105

Phone:
415.442.5060, Ext. 21

E-mail:
jennar22@hotmail.com

Web:
http://www.calyouthconn.org...

Rodriguez is the legislative and policy coordinator for the California Youth Connection (CYC), a nonprofit advocacy organization of current and former foster youth. CYC has 22 county-based chapters and over 400 members. It works on the local, state and national levels to educate legislators and policymakers about how policies and programs affect foster youth. As a former foster youth with years of placement in group homes and institutions, Rodriguez has both personal and professional experience with the issues facing foster children. She was emancipated from foster care to homelessness without a high school diploma, job skills or any adult support. After receiving a G.E.D. and vocational training, Rodriguez graduated in 2001 from the University of California, Davis, with a bachelor’s degree in sociology with high honors. She now attends law school at UC Davis.
 

Roger Rosenthal
Executive Director
The Migrant Legal Action Program

Address:
2001 S Street, NW Suite 310
Washington, DC 20009

Phone:
202.462.7744

E-mail:
HN1645@handsnet.org

Web:
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.
 

Héctor Sánchez-Flores
Senior Research Associate
Institute for Health Policy Studies
University of California, San Francisco

Address:
3333 California Street, Suite 265
San Francisco, CA 94143-0936

Phone:
415.476.3375

E-mail:
hector.sanchez@ucsf.edu

Web:
www.dhs.ca.gov/pcfh/ofp/Programs/MIP...

Héctor Sánchez-Flores is a senior research associate and member of the statewide evaluation team for the Male Involvement Program. He also serves as the liaison to the California Department of Health Services, Office of Maternal, Child & Adolescent Health – Office of Family Planning. Sánchez-Flores works closely with over 20 local projects in California that develop teen pregnancy prevention services specifically for young and teen males. He serves on national boards and advisory committees that address teen pregnancy prevention and male involvement, and he advises policy analysts and legislative leaders on community-based solutions to teen pregnancy and the inclusion of males in prevention efforts and reproductive health education.
 

Bill Saunders
Senior Fellow
Human Life and Bioethics
Family Research Council

Address:
801 G Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001

Phone:
202.393.2100

The Family Research Council shapes public debate and formulates public policy that values human life and upholds the institutions of marriage and the family. Saunders' focus is on embryo adoption and human cloning.
 
Ben Saunders Ph.D.
Professor
National Crime Victims Research and Treatment Center
Medical University of South Carolina

Address:
165 Cannon St., Box 250852
Charleston, SC 29425

Phone:
843.792.2945

E-mail:
saunders@musc.edu

Web:
http://www.musc.edu/psychiatry/faculty/saundersb.h...

Saunders, a licensed independent social worker and marriage and family therapist, directs the center's family and child program. He's also on the faculty of MUSC's National Violence Against Women Prevention Research Center. Saunders’ research, training and clinical interests include the impact of violence and abuse on children and adolescents; the epidemiology of trauma, violence and abuse; treatment approaches; and effective methods for disseminating evidence-based practices. His work on child abuse victims, sexual offenders and incestuous families has been funded by several federal agencies. Saunders maintains a clinical practice and serves on the editorial boards of several professional journals.
 

Annetta Seecharran
Executive Director
South Asian Youth Action

Address:
54-05 Seabury St.
Elmhurst, NY 11373

Phone:
718.651.3484

E-mail:
annetta@saya.org

Web:
http://www.saya.org...

Annetta Seecharran is the executive director of South Asian Youth Action (SAYA!), a community-based organization dedicated to creating social change and opportunities to help South Asian youth realize their fullest potential. Prior to joining SAYA! she spent five years at the International Youth Foundation, serving as program manager for YouthNet International, a network of youth development organizations in over 30 countries. Seecharran also founded YouthActionNet, a global initiative promoting youth social entrepreneurship. In addition to her extensive work with youth in New York City’s African American and Latino communities, she has worked with abandoned and disabled children in India and coordinated after-school programs in Poland. She serves on the boards of directors of the New York Immigration Coalition, Peoples Production House, and The Rajkumari Center for Indo-Caribbean Arts and Culture. Seecharran also advises numerous initiatives serving immigrants. She earned a master’s degree in international political economy and development at Fordham University, a bachelor’s degree in political science from Manhattanville College, and executive management certificates from Harvard Business School and Columbia Business School.
 

Eric Sigmon
Immigration Program Assistant
National Center for Refugee and Immigrant Children

Address:
1717 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 200
Washington, DC 20036

Phone:
202.347.3507

E-mail:
NationalCenter@uscridc.org

Web:
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.
 


Alvaro Simmons
Chief operating officer
Mary's Center for Maternal and Child Care

Address:
2333 Ontario Road, N.W.
Washington, DC 20009

Phone:
202.483.8196

E-mail:
ASimmons@maryscenter.org

Web:
www.maryscenter.org...

Alvaro Simmons has served as Mary's Center's chief operating officer since early 2006. The center, established in 1988, serves families and individuals in metro Washington, D.C., who have limited or no access to health-related services. Alvaro has 18 years experience in the health care field, in addition to nearly 20 years as an educator in New York public schools and colleges. In his professional roles at various medical centers and hospitals, Alvaro has led multiple units working toward the best health care of patients in obstetrics, drug use treatment, mental health, and adolescent health units. For the past six years, Alvaro has worked in federally qualified health centers while leading the organizations to comply with FQHC regulations.
 

Rosa Smith Ph.D.
Regional education director, Memphis
New Leaders for New Schools

Address:
3782 N. Jackson Ave.
Memphis, TN 38108

Phone:
504.377.1000

E-mail:
rsmith@nlns.org

Web:
www.nlns.org...

Smith joined the national, New York-based New Leaders for New Schools in February 2007 as a a regional education director in Memphis; she also serves senior adviser to its New Orleans program. The nonprofit organization helps passionate and effective educators become successful principals in high-need communities. Earlier, Smith was president of the Schott Foundation for Public Education, which brings together leaders, experts and community members to develop and strengthen the movement for equity in public and early education. Befor that, she served as superintendent of Columbus (OH) Public Schools. She wrote “Saving Black Boys: Unimaginable outcomes for the most vulnerable students require imaginable leadership” for The School Administrator in January 2005.
 

Glenn T. Stanton
Director/Senior Research Analyst
Social Research and Cultural Affairs
Focus on the Family

Address:
8605 Explorer Drive
Colorado Springs, CO 80920

Phone:
719.531.3336

Web:
http://www.family.org...

Focus on the Family is devoted to spreading Christian doctrine and preserving traditional family values, particularly the traditional institution of marriage.
 

Paul Taylor
Acting Director
Pew Hispanic Center

Address:
1615 L St. NW
Suite 700
Washington, DC 20036-5610

Phone:
202.419.3600

E-mail:
info@pewhispanic.org

Web:
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

Address:
630 Fifth Ave., Suite 2550
New York, NY 10111

Phone:
212.649.1649

E-mail:
teitelbaum@sloan.org

Web:
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.
 

Sean Tipton
Administrator
Public Affairs
American Society for Reproductive Medicine (ASRM)

Address:
409 12th Street SW, Suite 203
Washington , DC 20024-2188

Phone:
202.863.2494

E-mail:
stipton@asrm-dc.org

Web:
http://www.asrm.org/...

ASRM's mission is to be the nationally and internationally recognized leader for multidisciplinary information, education, advocacy and standards in the field of reproductive medicine.
 

Sara Totonchi
Public Policy Director
Southern Center for Human Rights

Address:
83 Poplar Street, N.W.
Atlanta, GA 30303-2122

Phone:
404.688.1202

E-mail:
stotonchi@schr.org

Web:
http://www.schr.org/...

The Southern Center for Human Rights is a nonprofit, public interest law firm dedicated to enforcing the civil and human rights of people in the criminal justice system in the South. The center’s legal work includes representing prisoners in challenges to unconstitutional conditions and practices in prisons and jails; challenging systemic failures in the legal representation of poor people in the criminal courts; and representing people facing the death penalty who otherwise would have no representation. Totonchi represents the center in the Georgia legislature, acts as a liaison between media outlets and the center, and co-staffs Fairness for Prisoners' Families.
 

Carl Tubbesing
Deputy Director, D.C. headquarters
National Conference of State Legislatures

Phone:
202.624.5400

E-mail:
carl.tubbesing@ncsl.org

Web:
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.

 
Stephanie Ventura
Senior Demographer and Chief, Reproductive Statistics Branch
Division of Vital Statistics
National Center for Health Statistics

Address:
3311 Toledo Road, Room 7418
Hyattsville, MD 20782

Phone:
301.458.4547

E-mail:
sventura@cdc.gov

Web:
http://www.cdc.gov/nchswww/index.htm...

Ventura has published extensively on a number of fertility-related topics, especially births to unmarried mothers, teenage pregnancy, delayed childbearing and childbearing by Hispanic women. She has also authored reports on teenage births, including detailed analyses of national and state-specific patterns. She is an author of the report “What is Happening to Out-of-Wedlock Teen Childbearing?” and the congressionally mandated report, “The Demography of Out-of-Wedlock Childbearing.”
 

Michele Waslin
Director
Immigration Policy Research
National Council of La Raza

Address:
The Raul Yzaguirre Building
1126 16th St., NW
Washington, DC 20036

Phone:
202.776.1735

E-mail:
mwaslin@nclr.org

Web:
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.
 

Marie Weller
President
Parents Without Partners

Address:
1650 South Dixie Highway, Suite 510
Boca Raton, FL 33432

Phone:
561.391.8833

E-mail:
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.
 

Joan Williams
Professor of Law, Director
Law
The Center for WorkLife Law (WLL)

Address:
200 McAllister St.
San Francisco, CA 94102

Phone:
415.565.4640

E-mail:
williams@uchastings.edu

Web:
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.
 

Marci Young
Deputy Director
Center for the Child Care Workforce

Address:
555 New Jersey Avenue N.W.
Washington, DC 20001

Phone:
202.662.8005

E-mail:
myoung@ccw.org

Web:
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

Address:
1101 15th St. N.W., Suite 900
Washington, DC 20005

Phone:
202.833.2220

E-mail:
ayoung@nbcdi.org

Web:
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.
 

 
 
Christine Bachrach Ph.D.
Chief
Demographic and Behavioral Sciences Branch
National Institute of Child Health and Human Development

Address:
Executive Building, Room 8B13E
6100 Executive Blvd., MSC 7510
Bethesda, MD 20892

Phone:
301.496.1174

E-mail:
cbachrach@nih.gov

Web:
http://www.nichd.nih.gov/cpr/dbs/...

The Demographic and Behavioral Sciences Branch is within the Center for Population Research of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. Bachrach's areas of research include: Fertility; sexual behavior; adolescent health; marriage, co-habitation, and divorce; adoption; abortion; immigration and migration; population composition and projection; formal demography; family formation and structure; inter-generational demography.
 

Atoinette Banks
Public affairs specialist
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development

Address:
451 Seventh St. S.W.
Washington, DC 20410

Phone:
202.708.0685

E-mail:
Antoinette.P.Banks@hud.gov

Web:
www.hud.gov...

HUD was established in 1965 to develop and implement U.S. policy on housing and cities, though it now primarily concentrates on housing. Among its programs for families are Hope VI and Moving to Opportunity. Note: HUD’s site is a challenge to navigate. For a subject index, see http://www.hud.gov/funds/index.cfm
 

Stephen Buckner
Public Information Officer
U.S. Census Bureau
Phone:
301.763.3586

E-mail:
stephen.l.buckner@census.gov

Web:
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

Address:
Demographic and Behavioral Sciences Branch
Executive Building, Room 8B07, 6100 Executive Boulevard, MSC 7510
Bethesda, MD 20892-7510

Phone:
301.496.1174

E-mail:
casperl@mail.nih.gov

Web:
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.
 

Gerard Donovan
Sergeant
Family Services Unit
New Castle County Police

Address:
87 Reads Way
New Castle, DE 19720

Phone:
302.395.7760

E-mail:
GDonovan@co.new-castle.de.us

Web:
http://www.nccpd.com...

Donovan is a 12-year veteran of the New Castle County (Del.) Police, and since 1995 has worked in the Domestic Violence Unit, the past two years as its commander. Donovan has conducted training seminars throughout the United States on domestic violence and abuse, and the relationship between domestic violence and other crises; his work on the latter was the model for a statewide program for hostage negotiators in California. Donovan helped produce two videos on domestic abuse, one to enhance public awareness, the other to standardize the way police investigate domestic violence calls. The federally funded videos were distributed throughout the United States and abroad. Donovan is also the commander of the department's Crisis Negotiation Team.
 

Maureen Dunn
Division Director
Division of Unaccompanied Children's Services (DUCS)
Division of Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR)

Address:
370 L'Enfant Promenade, S.W., 6th Floor
Washington, DC 20447

Phone:
202.401.5709

E-mail:
MDunn@acf.hhs.gov

Web:
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

Phone:
301.458.4256

E-mail:
sgodiwalla@cdc.gov

Web:
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.
 

Wade Horn Ph.D.
Director
U.S. / State Government Sector
Deloitte Consulting LLP

Address:
12010 Sunset Hills Road
Suite 500
Reston, VA 20190

Phone:
703.885.6000

Web:
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.
 
Louis Kincannon
Director
U.S. Census Bureau
Phone:
301.763.2135

E-mail:
charles.louis.kincannon@census.gov

Web:
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.
 
Address:
Demographic and Behavioral Sciences Branch
Executive Building, Room 8B07, 6100 Executive Boulevard, MSC 7510
Bethesda, MD 20892-7510

Phone:
301.496.1174

E-mail:
rozking@mail.nih.gov

Web:
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

Address:
4600 Silver Hill Road
Washington, DC 20233

Phone:
301.763.3100

E-mail:
pio@census.gov

Web:
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

Address:
Room 2351, Building 3
Washington, DC 20233

Phone:
301.763.2406

E-mail:
martin.t.oconnell@census.gov

Web:
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

Address:
370 L'Enfant Plaza Promenade SW
Washington, DC 20201

Phone:
202.690.5977

E-mail:
Daniel.Schneider@HHS.GOV

Web:
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

Phone:
301.763.8327

E-mail:
mark.tolbert.iii@census.gov

Web:
http://www.census.gov/...

The Census Bureau serves as the leading source of data about the nation's people and economy.
 


Stephanie J. Ventura Ph.D.
Chief, Reproductive Statistics
Division of Vital Statistics
National Center for Health Statistics

Address:
3311 Toledo Road, Room 7418
Hyattsville, MD 20782

Phone:
301.458.4547

E-mail:
sventura@cdc.gov

Web:
http://www.cdc.gov/nchswww/index.htm...

Ventura is a senior demographer with the National Center for Health Statistics and is chief of the Center’s Reproductive Statistics Branch. She has published extensively on a number of fertility-related topics, especially births to unmarried mothers, teenage pregnancy, delayed childbearing and childbearing by Hispanic women. She has also authored many reports on teenage births, including detailed analyses of national and state-specific patterns, and developed with colleagues a set of national estimates of pregnancy rates. She is co-author of the report, “What is Happening to Out-of-Wedlock Teen Childbearing?” and the Congressionally-mandated report, “The Demography of Out-of-Wedlock Childbearing.”
 

Andrea Williams
ReConnect Program Coordinator
Women in Prison Project
Correctional Association of New York

Address:
135 East 15th St.
New York, NY 10003

Phone:
212.254.5700, Ext. 338

E-mail:
awilliams@correctionalassociation.org

Web:
http://www.correctionalassociation.org/WIPP/WIPP_m...

Williams will help connect journalists to former women inmates in New York and elsewhere. The Women in Prison Project addresses the effects of New York’s criminal justice policies on women and their families. It is the only project with the authority to visit female correctional facilities to monitor conditions of confinement.
 

Lemar Wooley
Public affairs specialist
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development

Address:
451 Seventh St. S.W.
Washington, DC 20410

Phone:
202.708.0685

E-mail:
Lemar.C.Wooley@hud.gov

Web:
www.hud.gov...

HUD was established in 1965 to develop and implement U.S. policy on housing and cities, though it now primarily concentrates on housing. Among its programs for families are Hope VI and Moving to Opportunity. Note: HUD’s site is a challenge to navigate. For a subject index, see http://www.hud.gov/funds/index.cfm For research and policy information, see http://www.huduser.org/

 

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