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Affiliate Scholars and practitioners program

The Affiliate Scholars and Practitioners program at the Network provides an elevated platform for the highest quality research produced by scholars and practitioners on issues related to economic and human security,health disparities, education, and leadership development.

Network affiliate scholars and practitioners are leading experts in public service,government and academia committed to critically engaging pressing social issues and strategizing about ways to work across sectors and communities of practice to advance inclusive public policies.

NETWORK AFFILIATE SCHOLARS & PRACTITIONERS

Radhika Balakrishnan, PhD
Professor of Economics and International Studies
Marymount Manhattan College

Linda Basch, PhD
President
National Council for Research on Women

Caroline Bettinger-López, Esq.
Deputy Director & Lecturer-in-Law, Human Rights Institute and Human Rights Clinic
Columbia Law School

Lisa A. Crooms
Professor of Law
Howard University

Anisha Desai
Executive Director
Women of Color Resource Center

Lorrie Frasure, PhD
Assistant Professor
University of California, Los Angeles

Irasema Garza, Esq.
President
Legal Momentum

Angela Glover Blackwell
Founder and Chief Executive Officer
PolicyLink

Jamie Grant
Director of the Policy Institute
National Gay and Lesbian Task Force

Beverly Guy-Sheftall, PhD
Anna Julia Cooper Professor of Women's Studies and Founding Director, Women's Research & Resource Center
Spelman College

Melissa Harris-Lacewell
Associate Professor, Politics & African American Studies
Princeton University

Ines Hernandez Avila, PhD
Director, Chicana/Latina Research Center and Native American Studies Professor
University of California, Davis

Avis Jones-DeWeever, PhD
Director, Research, Public Policy, and Information Center
National Council of Negro Women, Inc

Silvia Henriquez
Executive Director
National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health

Mia Herndon
Executive Director
Third Wave Foundation

Kate Kahan
Legislative Director
Center for Community Change

Julianne Malveaux, PhD
President
Bennett College for Women

Ana L. Oliviera
President
New York Women's Foundation

Dorothy Roberts
Kirkland & Ellis Professor
Northwestern University School of Law

Rinku Sen
President and Executive Director, Applied Research Center
Publisher, ColorLines Magazine

Margaret Simms, PhD
Senior Fellow, Urban Institute
Director, Institute's Low-Income Working Families Project

Lateefah Simon
Executive Director
Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area

Makani Themba-Nixon
Executive Director
The Praxis Project, Washington D.C.

Bonnie Thornton Dill, PhD
Professor and Chair, Department of Women's Studies
Founding Director, Consortium on Race, Gender and Ethnicity
University of Maryland, College Park

Susan Wefald
Executive Vice President,
Ms. Foundation for Women

Gina Wood, PhD
Deputy Director of Health Policy Institute,
The Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies,Washington, D.C.

Ruth E. Zambrana,PhD
Professor and Graduate Director in the Women's Studies Department
Consortium on Race, Gender, and Ethnicity
University of Maryland

Joy Zarembka
Director of The Break the Chain Campaign,
Institute for Policy Studies

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