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Angelique Day, PhD, MSW is an associate professor in the school of social and an adjunct faculty in the Evans School of Public policy and governance, University of Washington-Seattle, USA. Her research expertise is focused in the field of child welfare, with a focus on Indian Child Welfare, kinship care, foster parent recruitment and retention, and aging out youth. Her practice experience is in the political social work arena, specifically as a lobbyist and former legislative aid who has practiced at both the state and federal levels.
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Dr Anna Viden is a Swedish-American International Affairs scholar and Historian focused on the Middle East. She has 25+ years’ experience in research, writing and public speaking and has previously held academic positions as Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Pennsylvania and Assistant Professor at Charles University in Prague. Since 2019 Dr Viden is an Associate Research Fellow at the MENA program at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs, Stockholm Sweden. Dr Viden obtained a PhD in History at Sciences Po, Paris, France and an MA in Geopolitics at IFG, Paris.
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Janna Goebel is an assistant professor of sustainability education in the College of Global Futures, School of Sustainability and a Senior Global Futures Scientist in the Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory. She graduated with a PhD in educational policy and evaluation from the Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College at ASU in 2020. As a Global Development Research Scholar, and with the support of First Solar and the United States Agency for International Development, Goebel completed her dissertation research based on her time on family-owned coffee plantations in Southeastern Brazil.
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Mary Ager (Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley) is an Associate Professor of Social Work at the University of Georgia in the United States. Her research focuses on multidimensional poverty, consumer debt, social policy, financial capabilities, community-based social work interventions, and welfare state theory.
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PhD candidate in social work interested in creating more equitable and inclusive policies and tools for systems and program development.
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I am an Assistant Professor at the University of Connecticut, interested in urban socio-ecological systems. I am a quantitative ecologist flirting with the qualitative side of research by assessing ecosystem services and their relation to non-biophysical variables. I am interested in analyzing patterns through landscape ecology lenses and using spatial statistic analysis. It is of my interest to connect science to policy and decision-making by understanding the processes that lead to decisions and what needs to be done in order to shift it toward sustainability and resilience
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Amy Napoli is an assistant professor and early childhood Extension specialist at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln. She received her PhD in Human Development and Family Studies from Purdue University. Her research focuses on supporting families and caregivers in fostering positive learning environments for young children.
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Professor of Social Work at University of Michigan. My interests are in developing more knowledge to reduce violence against children and Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs), with the aim of improving child and family well-being. It is my hope that a better understanding of how to reduce violence against children, and how to reduce ACEs, will contribute to a better understanding of how to improve mental health and well-being across the lifespan. In this research I try to understand the family and community origins of aggression, antisocial behavior, anxiety and depression. https://agrogan1.github.io/
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Senior Development and Communications Intern with Advancing Girls’ Education in Africa (AGE Africa) and Graduate Research Assistant at West Virginia University.
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Philip Hong is Dean and Professor in the School of Social Work at University of Georgia.