Experts on Poverty & Policy
Asset Building
Sample topics: asset building policy, marginal tax rates, household banking practices, payday lending
Alexes Harris, Marieka Klawitter, Jennifer Romich
Crime and Criminal Justice
Sample topics: juvenile justice, prisoner re-entry, racial and ethnic patterns of incarceration
Bob Crutchfield, Alexes Harris, Becky Pettit
Education
Sample topics: affirmative action, immigrant access, Latinos and higher education
Frances Contreras, Roberto Gonzales, Charles Hirschman, Mark Long
Family
Sample topics: effects of low-income on families, poverty and childhood development, child care, child support policies, domestic violence and economic insecurity
Taryn Lindhorst, Marcia Meyers, Robert Plotnick, Jennifer Romich
Health care
Sample topics: public health care funding , health disparities, health care access issues
Gunnar Almgren
Human Geography
Sample topics: public housing, tolling and the poor, rural-urban poverty dynamics
Rachel Kleit, Victoria Lawson
Tax Policy
Sample topics: EITC, marginal tax rates and low-income work
Crystal Hall, Jennifer Romich, Robert Plotnick
Welfare / welfare reform
Sample topics: TANF sanctions, effects on child rearing, effects on childhood education
Marieka Klawitter, Marcia Meyers, Robert Plotnick
Workforce
Sample topics: demographics, social mobility, immigration
Mark Ellis, Robert Plotnick
Sample topics: wages and benefits, unions, work-life balance issues, discrimination
James Gregory, Marieka Klawitter, Becky Pettit, Jake Rosenfeld
Expert Contact Information
Gunnar Almgren, Associate Professor of Social Work
206 685-4077 / mukboy@uw.edu
Bob Crutchfield, Professor of Sociology
206 543-9882 / crutch@uw.edu
Mark Ellis, Professor of Geography
206 616-6207 / ellism@uw.edu
Crystal Hall, Assistant Professor of Public Affairs
206 221-5237 / hallcc@uw.edu
Alexes Harris, Assistant Professor of Sociology
206 685-4763 / yharris@uw.edu
Charles Hirschman, Professor of Sociology
206 543-5035 / charles@uw.edu
Victoria Lawson, Professor of Geography
206 543-5196 / lawson@uw.edu
Taryn Lindhorst, Associate Professor of Social Work
206 616-2152 / tarynlin@uw.edu
Mark Long, Associate Professor of Public Affairs
206 543-3787 / marklong@uw.edu
Marieka Klawitter, Associate Professor of Public Affairs
206 616-1673 / marieka@uw.edu
Marcia Meyers, Professor of Social Work and Public Affairs
206 616-4409 / mkm36@uw.edu
Robert Plotnick, Professor of Public Affairs
206 685-2055 / plotnick@uw.edu
Jennifer Romich, Associate Professor of Social Work
206 616-6121 / romich@uw.edu
Jake Rosenfeld, Assistant Professor of Sociology
206 543-2376 / jakerose@uw.edu