Advisory Board

MIMI ABRAMOVITZ Professor of Social Policy Hunter College School of SW	Dr. Abramovitz received her BA from the University of Michigan, and her MSW and DSW degrees from Columbia University School of Social Work. She has published extensively on women, poverty, and social welfare policy. Her books include Regulating the Lives of Women: Social Welfare Policy from Colonial Times to the Present (1996, 2nd ed), Under Attack and Fighting Back: Women and Welfare in the United States (2000, 2nd ed) which was named an "Outstanding Book" on the subject of intolerance by the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Human Rights (December 1997), The Dynamics of Social Welfare Policy (2004) with Joel Blau, and Taxes Are a Women's Issue: Reframing the Debate with Sandra Morgan (April 2006). Dr. Abramovitz is currently conducting research for a book titled Gendered Obligations: The History of Activism Among Poor and Working-Class Women in the U.S. Since 1900. She has received numerous honors including: The 2004 Award for Distinguished Recent Contributions in Social Work Education, Council on Social Work Education; The 2004 Feminist Scholarship Award presented in her name by the CSWE Council on the Role and Status of Women; and the 1995 Award for Significant Contributions to Social Service and Political Activism, New York City Chapter of the National Association of Social Workers. Dr. Abramovitz's work has appeared in all the major social work journals, in journals of other academic disciplines as well as the popular press, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Nation, The Women's Review of Books, MS Magazine, The Christian Science Monitor, The San Francisco Examiner, and In These Times. She has been invited to serve on the editorial boards of several journals, to keynote many national and international conferences, to be interviewed by the print and broadcast media, and to serve on the boards of policy making, foundation and community organization boards, including most recently The Blue Ribbon Commission on Economic Security, NASW; Community Impact Task Force, The United Way of New York City, and the Chamberlain Initiative, National Council for Research on Women.

JOAN P. CAVANAGH Assoc. Director, Campus Ministry Fordham University	Joan P. Cavanagh, a familiar face at the Lincoln Center Campus since August 1997, holds Master's degrees in Theology from Immaculate Conception Seminary, in Huntington, N.Y., and in Counseling from the Fordham Graduate School of Education. Ms. Cavanagh trained as a Hospital Chaplain at NYU Medical Center and Columbia-Presbyterian Hospital where she ministered on AIDS and cancer units. Working together with an interfaith team of chaplains she achieved advanced standing in her practice of pastoral counseling and chaplaincy in the Association of Clinical Pastoral Education. She was certified as a chaplain in the National Association of Catholic Chaplains. Her training at Calvary Hospital led to her certification as a Bereavement Counselor. Ms. Cavanagh is very much a part of the Lincoln Center community and enjoys working with faculty, staff and students. She organizes the faculty retreats, prayer and memorial services and is available for pastoral counseling and spiritual direction. She has always worked closely with people of all faiths and extends a welcome to all members of the Lincoln Center community, Catholic and non Catholic alike. She has a deep appreciation of Ignation Spirituality which underlies the work of Campus Ministry. When asked what campus ministry is all about, she will tell you, "We tend the soul of the Campus." She looks for new and creative ways to meet the spiritual and pastoral needs of students, staff, and faculty at the Lincoln Center campus.

NANCY GENERO Professor of Psychology Wellesley College	Dr. Genero completed her doctoral training in social psychology at the University of Michigan (UM) in Ann Arbor. After working in the clinical studies unit of the department of psychiatry at UM as a research investigator, she assumed a position at the Stone Center at Wellesley College as a research program director in 1988. That year marked the beginning of her research career on the relational aspects of the psychological development of women and girls. For the past fifteen years, she has explored psychological issues that pertain to the lives of diverse groups of women, girls, and their families. When she started her work in this area, the research literature was extremely limited and reliable research instruments on relational processes were virtually non-existent. Consequently, she published the first validated measure of mutual psychological development (Genero, Miller, Surrey & Baldwin, 1992). This measure is now widely used in the field and was recently published in the Handbook of Family Measurement Techniques (Perlmutter, Touliatos & Holden, 2001). With federal funding from the Bureau of Maternal and Child Health, she collaborated with colleagues at the Stone Center to study the relational aspects of depression in mothers of young children. In 1993, Dr. Genero joined the faculty of the psychology department at Wellesley College where she began to incorporate theories from cultural psychology into her work. The idea that diverse cultural meanings profoundly impact the ways in which women and girls make sense of and adapt to psychological challenges made a lot of sense to her. At the time, she discovered growing literature on the negative effects of acculturation stress on identity development and mental health. Although studies called attention to the challenges of the acculturation process (e.g., discrimination and language barriers), few attempted to address how female adolescents make sense of their acculturation experiences and whether close relationships enhanced or diminished their ability to negotiate conflicting cultural demands. The discontinuities between traditional female roles and non-traditional mainstream American values can be a source of conflict between young girls and their families. Moreover, persistent cultural inconsistencies are likely to have serious negative developmental and mental health consequences for adolescents. Dr. Genero has received support for her work in this area from the Bunting Institute at Radcliffe College and the Social Science Research Council. More recently, she received an award of a small two-year grant from the Brachman Hoffmann Fellowship Program at Wellesley College to conduct a community-based study of bicultural Hispanic and Brazilian seventh and eighth grade girls from the Framingham area. She is currently conducting this study in collaboration with Elissa Koff, PhD. In addition to her research, Dr. Genero has served as a consulting editor for peer review journals, including the Psychology of Women Quarterly and Sex Roles. She is also the co-founder of the Relational Research Network which is affiliated with the work of the Stone Center.