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Blue Ribbon Panel on Economic Security
 The Blue Ribbon Panel on Economic Security was conceived and appointed by NASW President Terry Mizrahi, who serves as an ex-officio member. The Panel provides overall leadership on the association's efforts on the reauthorization of the 1996 Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act. Comprised of academics, researchers, practitioners, and consumers, the panel brings together a wealth of expertise. That expertise, individual and collective, serves as a valuable resource to policymakers, the media, and the NASW membership.
Terry Mizrahi, Ex Officio
NASW President Terry Mizrahi has developed this special initiative to focus attention on the association's welfare reauthorization efforts. President Mizrahi has chosen to highlight this issue by appointing a panel of social work experts from across the country to raise awareness of social workers' unique contributions to the welfare policy debate.
Mimi Abramovitz
Mimi Abramovitz is a professor of social policy at Hunter College School of Social Work and at the Social Welfare Doctoral Program, City University of New York. She received a B.A. in Sociology from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and a M.S.W. and D.S.W. from Columbia University School of Social Work. She is the author of Regulating the Lives of Women: Social Welfare Policy From Colonial Times to the Present, Under Attack and Fighting Back: Women and Welfare in the United States (named "Outstanding Book" on the subject intolerance by the Myers Center For the Study of Human Rights ) and In Jeopardy: The Impact of Welfare Reform on Non- Profit Human Service Agencies in NYC. She was the 1994 recipient of the Award for Significant Contributions to Social Services and Political Activism given by the New York City Chapter of NASW. She works closely with welfare rights organizations in New York City and currently researching for a book on the history of activism among poor and working class women in the United States.
Sandra Danziger
Sandra Danziger is Associate Professor of Social Work and Director of the Michigan Program on Poverty and Social Welfare Policy at the University of Michigan. She received an A.B., M.S., and Ph.D. in Sociology from Boston University. Her primary research interests are the impact of public programs on the well being of families, and the causes and consequences of adolescent pregnancy and parenthood. Her current projects address the implementation of welfare reform policies and their impacts for low-income families and children. She is a Principal Investigator on the Women's Employment Survey and the From Welfare to Jobs and Independence study. Professor Danziger previously researched how Michigan's General Assistance welfare recipients fared after Governor Engler eliminated their benefits. Another recently completed study looked at perceived life options and teen motherhood among inner-city youth. Other areas of research/scholarly interest: Social Welfare Policies, Maternal and Child Well-Being.
Cecilia Espinola
Cecilia Espinola is the director of the Santa Cruz County (California) Human Resources Agency, which is the county's umbrella social services, welfare, job training, veterans services and public guardian agency. She received a M.S.W. in social welfare from the University of California, Berkeley. She is currently the Vice-President at Large for the California Welfare Directors Association (CWDA) and the Vice-Chair of the Bay Area Social Services Consortium (BASSC). She also is a board member of the United Way of Santa Cruz County, the California Social Work Education Center, and a commissioner on the Santa Cruz County Children and Families Commission.
 Jan Hagen
Jan Hagen is a professor at the School of Social Welfare, University at Albany, State University of New York. Hagen received a M.S.W. from Washington University and a Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota. She has research interests in public welfare, welfare employment programs, and battered women. Her publications encompass the subjects of welfare employment programs, welfare "reform", income maintenance workers, battered women, and homelessness. She holds a joint appointment in the Department of Women's Studies. Hagen serves as a consulting editor for several social work journals and as the President of the New York State Chapter of the National Association of Social Workers (July 1, 2000 - June 30, 2002).
 Maureen Lane
Maureen Lane is a M.S.W. student at Hunter College School of Social Work and a former welfare recipient. She is a co-director for Welfare Rights Initiative, a student activist and leadership development organization working for access to education and training for people receiving welfare.
 Rufus Sylvester Lynch
Rufus Sylvester Lynch has functioned at different times as an administrator, community organizer, community developer, educator, planner, policy maker, researcher, trainer, and institutional advocate. He is the author of a number of articles and presentations on aging and the care of the elderly. Lynch has served in senior staff positions in the executive, legislative, and judicial branches of Pennsylvania's state government, and has held executive positions in private industry, higher education, and not-for-profit corporations. He received a D.S.W. from the University of Pennsylvania, a M.S.W. from the University of Pittsburgh, and a Bachelor's Degree in sociology from Morgan State College. He lectures extensively at conferences, colleges and universities in the areas of "social change" and the administration of justice. Presently, he serves part-time as a lecturer at Chestnut Hill College. He has managed welfare-to-work programs for the Philadelphia Workforce Development Corporation. Currently, he is the President and Principal Investigator for the Institute for the Advancement of Working Families. Lynch has significant experience both working on political campaigns and running for public office. He ran for a seat in the Pennsylvania State Assembly and previously served as President of the Pennsylvania Chapter of NASW. He has been a member of the Board of Directors of the West Philadelphia Partnership and the head of FreshStart Community Development Corporation.
 Michael Sherraden
Michael Sherraden received his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan. He is a professor of social development at the George Warren Brown School of Social Work. Sherraden concentrates on creating, implementing, and studying policy and community innovations, focusing on the least advantaged, and drawing lessons from historical and international examples. He directs research on asset building, community and family development, service, welfare reform, and working poor households, and urban education at the Center for Social Development which he founded. He has served as an advisor and consultant to numerous governmental organizations and private foundations, including the White House, the Ford Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation.
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