Professor
Hunter College, City University of New York
New York, New York, United States
Mimi Abramovitz. the Bertha Capen Reynolds Professor of Social Policy at Silberman School of Social Work, Hunter College, The CUNY Graduate Center, and the CUNY Schol or Labor and Urban Studies is often introduced as an activist and a scholar. Her research interests include US welfare state, poverty, inequality, activism and the impact of public policy on human service organizations, all viewed through the lens of race, class, and gender. Widely published in social work and social science journals and often interviewed by the print and broadcast media. she is the author of several books including Regulating the Lives: Social Welfare Policy From Colonial Time to the Present (Routledge, 3rd. ed. 2018). She is currently writing a book entitled Gender Obligations: The History of Black and White Low-Income Women’s Activism Since 1900. Trained in community organizing and social policy at Columbia School of Social Work, Mimi currently co-leads the National Social Work Voter Mobilization Campaign also known as Voting is Social Work. Mimi has been honored with 15 awards, including the Columbia School of Social Work Hall of Fame and most recently CSWE’s Significant Lifetime Achievement Award.
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Saturday, November 12, 2022
2:30 PM – 3:30 PM
Saturday, November 12, 2022
5:00 PM – 6:00 PM