Ronald B. Mincy is the Maurice V. Russell Professor of Social Policy and Social Work Practice at the School of Social Work, Columbia University, where he teaches graduate courses on social welfare policy, program evaluation, and microeconomics. Dr. Mincy is a co-principal investigator for the Fragile Families and Child Well-being Survey, a birth cohort study of children born to unmarried parents that is nationally representative of births in large cities. He has published widely about the effects of income security policy on child and family poverty, family formation, and child well-being; responsible fatherhood; the urban underclass; and urban poverty.
Before joining the Columbia faculty, Dr. Mincy was the senior program officer for the Ford Foundation's Program in Human Development and Reproductive Health, where he developed the Strengthening Fragile Families Initiative (SFFI). SFFI was a Ford Foundation grantmaking initiative that worked with federal, state, and local human services agencies on reforming income security policies to enable low-income mothers and fathers to provide emotional, financial, and developmental support to their children receiving welfare.
Dr. Mincy is a member of the National Advisory Child Health and Human Development Council, an advisory group for the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Policy. He serves on the board of trustees for Children's Futures; the national advisory board for the National Poverty Center, University of Michigan; the technical work groups for the Building Strong Families and Community Healthy Marriage Initiatives; and on the advisory board for the African American Healthy Marriage Initiative. Dr. Mincy is a member of MacArthur Network on Family and the Economy and a former member of the research task force for the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management. He has been a speaker and consultant for donors, researchers, policymakers, and social workers contemplating fatherhood initiatives in South Africa, the United Kingdom, Jamaica, and throughout the United States.
Black Males Left Behind, edited by Ronald B. Mincy, is available from the Urban Institute Press (paper, 6" x 9", 344 pages, ISBN 0-87766-727-6, $29.50).
