Carol J. De Vita is a senior research associate in the Center on Nonprofits and Philanthropy at the Urban Institute. She served as principal investigator for the Roles of Child Advocacy Organizations in Addressing Policy Issues and directs research on nonprofit organizations in low-income neighborhoods of the District of Columbia. Previously, Dr. De Vita was a senior demographer at the Population Reference Bureau, where she directed the data collection for the annual KIDS COUNT Data Book, produced by the Annie E. Casey Foundation.
Rachel Mosher-Williams is a research associate in the Center on Nonprofits and Philanthropy at the Urban Institute. She was the project manager for The Roles of Child Advocacy Organizations in Addressing Policy Issues, the Urban Institute conference on which this book is based. She is currently conducting a three-year evaluation of the Foundation Media Relations Project. Prior to joining the Center, Ms. Mosher-Williams was the editor in chief of The George Washington University’s journal of public administration and a program associate at the National Council of Nonprofit Associations (NCNA).
About the Contributors
Barbara Beatty is an associate professor at Wellesley College, where she has taught since 1981, and is chair of the Education Department. Dr. Beatty is an associate editor of History of Education Quarterly, a board member of the Wellesley College Centers for Research on Women, and college coordinator of the Boston Higher Education Partnership. She has also served as secretary of Division F of the American Educational Research Association.
Emmett D. Carson is the president and CEO of the Minneapolis Foundation. Mr. Carson came to The Minneapolis Foundation from the Ford Foundation in New York, where he spent five years as a program officer, first in the area of social justice and then in governance and public policy. Prior to that he served as project director of the Study on Black Philanthropy at the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies in Washington, D.C.
Sally Covington is the founding director of the California Works Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to equitable economic development in California. Previously, Ms. Covington directed the Democracy and Philanthropy Project for the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy.
Jillian Dickert is a Ph.D. candidate at Brandeis University in the Department of Sociology. She has written and done research on politics, public policy, work/family, and social movements for Harvard University and for the Center for Women in Politics and Public Policy at the University of Massachusetts-Boston. Her dissertation focuses on the sociopolitical development of family and medical leave policy in the United States.
Doug Imig is associate professor of Political Science at the University of Memphis. Previously, Dr. Imig was affiliated with the Public Administration and Political Science Departments at the University of Nevada-Las Vegas and with the Program on Nonviolent Sanctions and Cultural Survival at Harvard University. His research addresses issues of social movement mobilization and public interest advocacy.
Elizabeth Reid is a research associate in the Center on Nonprofits and Philanthropy at the Urban Institute. Ms. Reid has 20 years of experience in labor and community organizations, grassroots political education, and leadership training. Formerly, she served as the national political director for the American Federation of Government Employees, and more recently, as adjunct faculty to the Corcoran School of Art, teaching courses in social movements, political and economic thought, and world affairs. She is author of "Nonprofit Advocacy and Political Participation," a chapter in Nonprofits and Government: Collaboration and Conflict (Urban Institute 1999).
Sara Rosenbaum is the Harold and Jane Hirsh Professor of Health Law and Policy at The George Washington University (GWU) School of Public Health and Health Services. Dr. Rosenbaum is also the director of the Hirsh Health Law and Policy Program and the Center for Health Policy Research at both The GWU School of Public Health and School of Health Services. In addition, Dr. Rosenbaum is a professor for Health Care Sciences at The GWU Medical School and a professorial lecturer in law at The GWU National Law Center.
Theda Skocpol is Victor S. Thomas Professor of Government and Sociology at Harvard University, where she also serves as director of the Center for American Political Studies. Her books include Protecting Soldiers and Mothers: The Political Origins of Social Policy in the United States (Harvard University Press 1992); Boomerang: Health Reform and the Turn Against Government (W.W. Norton 1997); and The Missing Middle: Working Families and the Future of American Social Policy (W.W. Norton and the Century Foundation 2000). Dr. Skocpol's current research focuses on civic engagement in American democracy.
Colleen Sonosky is a senior research scientist and assistant director of the Center for Health Services Research and Policy at the School of Public Health and Health Services at The George Washington University Medical Center.
Nicholas A. J. Stengel is a former research associate at the Center on Nonprofits and Philanthropy at the Urban Institute who worked on data quality issues and arts projects.
Who Speaks for America's Children? The Role of Child Advocates in Public Policy, edited by Carol J. De Vita and Rachel Mosher-Williams, is available in paperback from the Urban Institute Press (6" x 9", 236 pages, ISBN 978-0-87766-704-9, $26.50).
