To contact these experts, please call the Office of Public Affairs at (202) 261-5709
or email paffairs@ui.urban.org.
Martin Abravanel, Center on Metropolitan Housing & Communities.
Areas of expertise: Homelessness; federal housing policies and programs; housing needs and market assessments; fair housing; customer satisfaction and program performance measurement.
Greg Acs, Income & Benefits Policy Center.
Areas of expertise: Income and wealth distribution; poverty; family economic well-being; low-wage labor market.
Laudan Aron, Center on Labor, Human Services, & Population.
Areas of expertise: Homelessness; Children with disabilities; domestic violence/violence against women.
Martha Burt, Center on Labor, Human Services, & Population.
Areas of expertise: Adolescents; domestic violence/violence against women; homelessness; mental health; social services integration.
Randy Capps, Center on Labor, Human Services, & Population.
Areas of expertise: Welfare reform; welfare-to-work programs; immigration policy; immigrant children.
Linda Giannarelli, Income & Benefits Policy Center.
Areas of expertise: Welfare reform; child care subsidy eligibility; child care expenses; microsimulation; WIC.
Robert Lerman, senior fellow, Center on Labor, Human Services, & Population.
Areas of expertise: Welfare reform; poverty; income and wealth distribution; job training; school-to-work initiatives; education and employment; child support/paternity; family structure and composition; unwed fathers.
Pamela Loprest, Income & Benefits Policy Center.
Areas of expertise: Welfare reform; hard-to-serve populations; low-wage labor market; disabilities and employment; children with disabilities; women's employment.
Signe-Mary McKernan, Center on Labor, Human Services, & Population.
Areas of expertise: Access to credit for low-income individuals; micro-credit programs; rent-to-own customers; rural welfare reform; welfare impact on children and families.
Nancy Pindus, Center on Metropolitan Housing & Communities.
Areas of expertise: Health occupations; sectoral employment and economic development; job training; social services integration; performance monitoring; welfare reform; community development, including New Market Tax Credit program; food assistance programs; tribal assistance and economic development.
Sue Popkin, Center on Metropolitan Housing & Communities.
Areas of expertise: Residents of severely distressed public housing; public housing and HOPE VI; Section 8 vouchers and mobility; residential segregation.
Caroline Ratcliffe, Center on Labor, Human Services, & Population.
Areas of expertise: Poverty; cash welfare and Food Stamp Program impact on outcomes for children and families; welfare-to-work programs.
Margaret Simms, Low-Income Working Families.
Areas of expertise: Civil rights; economics of race and ethnicity; employment and training; income and wealth; low-wage labor markets; minority business development; minority labor markets; poverty; welfare reform.
Eugene Steuerle, Tax Policy Center.
Areas of expertise: Taxes; Social Security; budgets.
Margery Turner, director, Center on Metropolitan Housing & Communities.
Areas of expertise: Residential segregation and poverty concentration; housing and mortgage lending discrimination; housing choice and residential mobility; housing needs and market assessments; federal housing policy.
Laura Wheaton, Income & Benefits Policy Center.
Areas of expertise: Child support/parternity; noncustodial fathers; microsimulation.
Doug Wissoker, Center on Labor, Human Services, & Population.
Areas of expertise: Poverty; housing, hiring and employment discrimination; civil rights.
Sheila Zedlewski, director, Income & Benefits Policy Center.
Areas of expertise: Poverty; welfare reform; work support programs; food stamp policy; child nutrition programs; engagement of older adults; state spending for low-income populations.
