The American Human Development Project has benefited from the guidance of an engaged group of leading thinkers and practitioners from a variety of sectors – policy-makers, academics, business and religious leaders, and providers of social services who, acting in their personal capacities, provided invaluable feedback at every stage of the project.
Ivye L. Allen, community development and systems change, President, Foundation for the Mid South, which works to advance equity issues and opportunities in the American South. Former director of fellowship programs for the Rockefeller Brothers Fund in New York;
Craig Calhoun, sociologist, President of Social Science Research Council, NYU Professor, author of numerous publications on social movements, democracy, technological change, globalization, etc.;
Dalton Conley, sociologist, Professor/Chair of Sociology at New York University, focuses on child poverty and the transmission of socio-economic status across generations. Author of Being Black, Living in the Red: Race, Wealth, and Social Policy in America; The Pecking Order; and others;
Sheldon H. Danziger, economist, Co-Director, National Poverty Center and Professor, University of Michigan, author of numerous publications focusing on public policy, trends in poverty and inequality, and welfare reform, including: America Unequal; Detroit Divided; Child Poverty and Deprivation in the Industrialized Countries; and Uneven Tides: Rising Inequality in America;
Frank Furstenberg, sociologist, Professor of Sociology, Population Studies Center at the University of Pennsylvania, work centers on issues of teen pregnancy, urban education, the American family in the context of disadvantaged urban neighborhoods, and cross-national research on children’s well-being;
Carla Javits, leader in public-private partnerships to address homelessness, unemployment, etc., President, REDF, formerly CEO of the Corporation for Supportive Housing;
Jerome Karabel, sociologist, Professor of Sociology at UC Berkeley, author of The Chosen: The Hidden History of Admission and Exclusion at Harvard, Yale, and Princeton (2005), which won the Distinguished Scholarly Book Award of the ASA. Also writes frequently for The Nation, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, etc.;
Ichiro Kawachi, social epidemiologist, Chair and Professor in the Department of Society, Human Development, and Health at Harvard University, Co-Director of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health and Society Scholars, Director of Kellogg Health Scholars in Minority Disparities. Author of numerous books on social determinants of health and health disparities, in micro/macro contexts throughout the world;
Gary King, political scientist, Professor of Government, Harvard University, expertise in quantitative research and forecasting in critical human development areas such as health, political participation, human security, and others. Author of numerous books on these topics;
Ellen Levy, cognitive psychology and new technologies, VP, Corporate Development & Strategy at LinkedIn. Previous work in venture capital and linking Silicon Valley industry and university research, with a focus on people, technology, and innovation. Current interests in consumer internet and dynamics of social networks;
Jeff Madrick, economist, Director of Policy Research at New School’s Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis, Editor of Challenge Magazine, author of numerous publications on economic growth, inequality, labor market insecurity. Former commentator on NBC News;
Katherine Newman, sociologist, James B. Knapp Dean of the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences at Johns Hopkins University, author of numerous publications on mobility, discrimination and the working poor. Recent books include The Missing Class: Portraits of the Near Poor in America, and Chutes and Ladders: Navigating the Low Wage Labor Market;
Adela de la Torre, agricultural economist, Professor of Chicana/o Studies at the University of California, Davis, formerly syndicated columnist for Los Angeles times, activist and scholar on health care, education, immigration and other issues affecting Latino community. Author of Moving from the Margins: A Chicana’s View of Public Policy, and others;
