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Curriculum Vitae Download Biography About Our Research: STEPP About Dr. Gerassi’s approach to research and teaching: Recorded interview Lara B. Gerassi’s (she/her) research aims to inform policies and programs that enhance the well-being of people who provide sexual acts or materials for financial compensation. Her work centers the perspectives of people in the sex trades including (but …

Curriculum Vitae Download Biography Jaime earned her PhD in Social Welfare from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. She completed a qualitative dissertation for which she interviewed adult children who were harmed by a parent in childhood who are serving as caregivers for that parent through serious illness or the end of life. Jaime earned a Bachelor of …

Biography Dr. Halpern-Meekin is a sociologist who uses qualitative and quantitative methods to study romantic relationships and low-income families’ finances, as well as government policies directed at both of these areas. Dr. Halpern-Meekin’s current research includes longitudinally following how mothers who are low income when their child is born experience a program that provides them …

Curriculum Vitae Download Biography LB Klein, PhD, MSW, MPA (they/she) is an assistant professor in the Sandra Rosenbaum School of Social Work and a core faculty member of the Sexual Violence Research Initiative. They are also a faculty affiliate of the Institute for Diversity Science and LGBTQ+ Studies. Dr. Klein directs the Gender, LGBTQIA2S+, Interpersonal …

Curriculum Vitae Download Biography Dr. Jooyoung Kong is an Associate Professor at the Sandra Rosenbaum School of Social Work at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. With a PhD from Boston College, her research utilizes a life course perspective to examine the long-term impacts of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) on health, family caregiving, and elder abuse victimization. …

Curriculum Vitae Download Biography Katherine’s research focuses on the well-being and development of economically disadvantaged children and their families. She examines how disparities in socioeconomic status (SES) affect children’s development, and how these effects may be altered by policies and programs, especially early childhood education programs. She also investigates how maternal education impacts child development. …

Curriculum Vitae Download Biography Dr. Moses’ program of research is dedicated to understanding both the beneficial and deleterious effects of contemporary mental health treatment practices, primarily with youth. Dr. Moses has made significant contributions to research in three areas: (1) Psychotropic medication, including social workers’ approach to the use of psychotropic medication to treat youths’ …

Curriculum Vitae Download Biography Jessica Pac is an Assistant Professor of Social Work at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Jessica’s work is motivated by the notion that that inequalities in infancy drive adulthood disparities. Jessica’s research broadly harnesses applied econometric and data science methods to provide novel insight on the effects of antipoverty and work-family policy …