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Shel don H. Danz iger is the Henry J. Meyer Distinguished University Professor of Public
Policy and Director of the National Poverty Center at the Ford School, and Research Professor at the Population Studies Center. Danziger studies the effects of economic, demographic, and public policy changes on trends in poverty and inequality and the effects of social policy reforms on economic well-being. He is currently studying the effects of the great recession and the economic stimulus on workers, families, and children in Southeast Michigan. He is the co-author of America Unequal (1995) and Detroit Divided (2000) and co-editor of numerous books, including Understanding Poverty (2001), Working and Poor (2006), The Price of Independence (2007), and Changing Poverty, Changing Policies (2009). Sheldon is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellow, the 2010 John Kenneth Galbraith Fellow of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, and Director of the Research and Training Program on Poverty and Public Policy. He received his PhD in Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. K at rinel l M. Davis is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the National Poverty Center at the Ford School. She received her PhD in Sociology from the University of California, Berkeley in 2008. She is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Vermont, where she teaches Race and Ethnic Relations courses, as well as courses exploring the intersections between race, gender, and work trends within the American labor market. Her recent work explores the institutional features of the postindustrial era U.S. labor market and how these factors affect the employment opportunities available to low-skilled African American women workers. While at Michigan, Davis will develop a manuscript that explores the structure of job opportunities available to high school educated African American women employed as transit operators in the San Francisco Bay area. Mat t he w Davis , MD, MAPP, is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Communicable Diseases and Internal Medicine at the U-M Medical School, and Associate Professor of Public Policy at the Ford School. Dr. Davis’ current research and teaching focus on vaccination policy issues, child and family health insurance issues, and innovations and reform in health care delivery. He is the faculty lead for the MD/MPP dual degree program at the U-M. He also serves as a mentor for research fellows and graduate students, for which he was honored with the MICHR Distinguished Mentorship Award in 2012, and as an active clinician within the U-M Health System. Dr. Davis earned his MD cum laude from Harvard Medical School and an MA in Public Policy from the Harris School at the University of Chicago, as an Irving Harris Fellow in Child Policy. A l an V. De ar d orff is the Associate Dean of the Ford School, John W. Sweetland Professor of
International Economics, and Professor of Public Policy. Alan’s research focuses on international trade. With Bob Stern, he has developed the Michigan Model of World Production and Trade, which is used to estimate the effects of trade agreements. Alan is also doing theoretical work in international trade and trade policy. He has served as a consultant to the U.S. Departments of Commerce, Labor, State, and Treasury and to international organizations including the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development and the World Bank. Alan received his PhD from Cornell University.
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