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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.
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Ilene R. Berson, Ph.D. is a Professor of Early Childhood at the University of South Florida. She leads international studies on integrating social justice and child advocacy into early childhood contexts, and conducts participatory research to explore young children’s civic engagement through multiple literacies. She studies the intersection of technology and the pedagogy of inquiry in the early years with a focus on children's affordances of digital innovations. Dr. Berson has been the principal investigator on numerous grants, collaborating with national and international organizations.
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An archeologist and historian, I pioneered the application of the Complex Adaptive Systems approach to socio-environmental challenges, technology and innovation. I taught in Amsterdam, Leyden, Cambridge and Paris (Sorbonne), was Founding Director of Arizona State University’s School of Human Evolution and Social Change and Dean of its School of Sustainability. I am Fellow of the AAAS, External Faculty Fellow of the Santa Fe Institute, and Corresponding Member of the Royal Dutch Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2012, he was awarded the title "Champion of the Earth for Science and Innovation".
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Lindsay Gezinski, PhD, MA, MSW (she/her) is an Associate Professor and Director of the Master of Social Work Program at the University of Utah (USA). Formerly, she served as a Visiting Scholar at the University of Amsterdam and Leiden University in the Netherlands. Much of her research focuses on gender-based violence, human trafficking, and sexual and reproductive justice among marginalized populations. Her scholarly work has appeared in the Journal of Interpersonal Violence, Child Abuse and Neglect, Journal of Family Violence, Violence Against Women, and the Journal of Human Trafficking.