Leadership Team
Terry Mizrahi, Co-Chair
Professor; Chair, Community Organizing, Planning and Development
Silberman School of Social Work
Hunter College, City University of New York
Mimi Abramovitz, Co-Chair
Bertha Capen Reynolds Professor of Social Policy
Silberman School of Social Work
Hunter College, City University of New York
Tanya Rhodes Smith, Co-chair, Director
Nancy A Humphreys Institute for Political Social Work,
University of Connecticut School of Social Work
Advisory Board
Sabrina W. Tyuse, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Saint Louis University School of Social Work
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Social Work, Silberman School of Social Work
Hunter College, CUNY
Gena Gunn McClendon
Director of Voter Access and Engagement
Center for Social Development
Washington University in St. Louis
Adelaide K. Sandler, PhD
Assistant Professor, Social Work Department
Marist College, NY
Ruth Cislowski, MSW, MAJCS
Clinical Associate Professor, Assistant Director of Field Education
Working Professionals MSW Program (WPP)
USC Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work
University of Southern California
Kanako Okuda, DSW, LCSW-R
Director of Field Education, Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research
Bryn Mawr College, PA