Chair, Harold Richman
Mr. Harold Richman serves as Chair of the Center's Board and member of the Executive Committee. He had a distinguished academic career as the Herman Dunlop Smith Professor at the University of Chicago, where he also served as the Dean of the Graduate School of Social Service Administration and as the founding director of the University's public policy program and as founding director of the Chapin Hall Center for Children and Families. A former member of the Board, he is not a stranger to the CSSP. He was instrumental in helping Tom Joe, the Center's founder, give birth to the CSSP in the late 1970's.
Frank FarrowCurrently Director of the Center for the Study of Social Policy, Frank Farrow directed children's services initiatives at the Center for 17 years. He also serves as Director of the Annie E. Casey Foundation's Community Change Initiatives. In the mid-1980's, Mr. Farrow served as Director of Social Services for Maryland's Department of Human Resources. He ran the Woodlawn Services Center in Chicago in the 1970's.
Jim Gibson
Jim has been a Senior Fellow at the Center since February 2000. Jim came to the Center from DC Agenda, having spent time in major leadership positions at both the Urban Institute and the Rockefeller Foundation. Jim participates in technical assistance activities and is involved in the Center's work in the District of Columbia. Half of Jim's time is spent as an advisor to PolicyLink
in California
Robert Hill Currently a Senior Researcher at Westat, Dr. Robert B. Hill was Director of the Institute for Urban Research at Morgan State University in Baltimore. He also served as Director of Research for the National Urban League and Senior Research Associate at the Bureau of Social Science Research.
Judith Meltzer Currently Deputy Director of the Center for the Study of Social Policy, Judith Meltzer was a Senior Associate at CSSP for twenty years working in the areas of long-term care policy, Medicaid reform, and services for children and families. Previously, Ms. Meltzer worked at the University of Chicago's School of Social Service Administration and in the Chicago Regional Office of the U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare.
Jonathan Moore Mr. Moore is the former Ambassador and U.S. Representative to the United Nations Economic and Social Council, and prior to that served as U.S. Coordinator for Refugees at the U.S. Department of State. At Harvard University, he was Director of the Institute of Politics at the Kennedy School of Government where he helped create the Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy. Mr. Moore also worked closely with Elliot Richardson as his Executive Assistant at the State and Defense Department and as Counselor at HEW and Associate Attorney General at Justice. Mr. Moore currently serves as Senior Advisor to the U.N. Development Program on Rehabilitation Programs in poor, conflict-prone countries.
Susan NotkinSusan joined the Center as the new Director for the Center for Community Partnerships in Child Welfare in January 2002 after working as the Director of the Program for Children at the Edna McConnell Clark Foundation in New York City since 1992. Susan also has served in various other capacities at the Clark Foundation since 1985, including Director of the Program for Homeless Families. Susan brings valuable experience in the design and management of innovative public and private programs in a wide range of areas of social policy development and is also the newest member of the Board.
Gary Stangler Currently the Director of the new Jim Casey Youth Opportunities Initiative (established by the Annie E. Casey Foundation and Casey Family Programs), Mr. Gary Stangler was, for over ten years, the Director of the Missouri Department of Social Services. He has served the Board of Directors of the American Public Welfare Association (now renamed the American Public Human Services Association) and chaired its National Council of State Human Services Administrators.
Carol Wilson Spigner Dr. Spigner currently serves as the Kenneth L.M. Pray Distinguished Professor at the University of Pennsylvania School of Social Work. At the University, Dr. Spigner serves as Co-director of the Center for Children's Policy, Practice and Research, a joint project of the Schools of Social Work, Law and Medicine. She is the former Associate Commissioner of the Children's Bureau at the Department of Health and Human Services' Administration for Children and Families, a former senior associate at the Center for the Study of Social Policy and director of the National Child Welfare Leadership Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. |
