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