Poverty
Charles A. Brown
Assistant Dean for Diversity Programs
RBS Office of the Dean - Student Development Center
Rutgers Business School–Newark and New Brunswick
Key topics: Diversity and diversity programs, community engagement, underrepresented student populations, business education partnerships, black male achievement
Charles A. Brown oversees a portfolio of programs that helps with the recruitment, development, and retention of underrepresented students populations. With a passionate, dynamic, and relevant style, Charles is able to engage diverse audiences in…
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Associate Professor and Extension Specialist
Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics
School of Environmental and Biological Sciences
Key topics: Urban sprawl; SmartGrowth; growth management; "growth vs. environment"; regional planning; zoning and local land use policy; property tax reform; differences in economic welfare between suburbs and central cities; regional and city development; agriculture in New Jersey
Paul D. Gottlieb, Ph.D. is Associate Professor of Agricultural, Food and Resource Economics at the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences. He is also an extension specialist, with college-wide responsibilities related to smart growth,…
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James Hughes
University Professor
Heldrich Center for Workforce Development
Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy
Key topics: Demographics and housing, regional and New Jersey economics, community development patterns
James W. Hughes, Ph.D., is a nationally recognized expert who has presented extensive budgetary and economic testimony before New Jersey state legislative committees. He has also provided countless policy briefings on demographics, housing, and…
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Lenna Nepomnyaschy
Associate Professor
Department of Social Work
School of Social Work
Key topics: Child support; Nonresident fathers; Fathers' involvement with children; Poverty and social policy; Child well-being; Single-parent families; Material hardship; Food insecurity; Economic insecurity; Income & wealth inequality; Health disparities; Infant health; Parental debt
Lenna Nepomnyaschy is an associate professor at Rutgers School of Social Work. She received her PhD from Columbia University in 2003 and an MSW from Rutgers in 1991. Her research is broadly focused on how poverty, inequality, and social policies…
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Arturo Osorio-Fernandez
Associate Professor
Management and Global Business
Rutgers Business School-Newark and New Brunswick
Key topics: Entrepreneurship, (social entrepreneurship, urban entrepreneurship, entrepreneurship & under-served populations, entrepreneurship base socioeconomic development), Managing Growing Ventures, Business Resilience, Management Skills, Socioeconomic renaissance, Urban revitalization, Business & communities, Minority Own Business, Hispanic & Latino minorities
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Debra Palmer
Extension Specialist Nutritional Science
Rutgers NJAES Cooperative Extension
Key topics: Nutrition education for people of limited resources, food safety, household food security, obesity
Debra Palmer, Ph.D., is a nutrition specialist whose research interests surround issues related to the effective delivery and evaluation of nutrition education for limited-resource people.
Palmer is the state's Expanded Food and…
Abigail Williams-Butler
Assistant Professor
School of Social Work
Key topics: Child and adolescent development; the child welfare system; the juvenile justice system; racial disparities within the child welfare and juvenile justice systems; intersectionality within the child welfare and juvenile justice systems
Abigail Williams-Butler received her PhD from the University of Michigan in the Joint Social Work and Developmental Psychology program. Her research agenda is informed by her practice experience as a residential counselor for adolescents with…
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