Selected Lectures and National Presentations
Selected Talks 2001-2008
2008
- Civil Rights Project , University of California, Los Angeles
Family Ties and Blind Policies: Mothers and Children Climb Together
2007
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
Provided oral and written testimony in Washington DC for EEOC, “Equal opportunity and best employment practices for low-income families”Yale University, Office of Scholarly Affairs Nurse practitioners and the challenges of serving low-income mothers and families
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Barnard College, Center for Research on Women
Class and Work/Family Dilemma
“Sustainable Incomes as a Work and Family Issue” -
University of Massachusetts
Keynote speaker for “Gathering at the Well” address
“All the World’s Kin: Carework as Social Transformation” -
Eastern Sociological Society Annual Conference
“Wage-Poor Mothers and Moral Economy” -
Keynote Panel, Graduate Consortium on Women’s Studies
“Bridging Academia and Activism”
2006
Harvard Graduate School of Education
Research Seminar Series on Families and Inequality
“Social Research as Acts of Democracy”-
Brandeis University
Heller Distinguished Scholars series
“Researching Inequality: Methods of inquiry, ethical dilemmas and personal challenges” -
Paper presentation @ American Sociological Society and Society for the Study of Social Problems: Session on Carework
“Of Hearts and Markets: Fictive kinship, caring and exploitation in long-term care industry”
2005
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Institute for Research on Poverty
Livelihood and Family Life: Maternal strategies among low-wage workers-
Center for Family Policy and Practice, San Francisco
Annual Conference: Race, Domestic violence and Fatherhood
“Family life and the effects of low-wage work”
2004 Boston College Women’s Law Center Harvard Law School Seminar Hestia Foundation (for the advancement of low-income women) Society for the Study of Social Problems Annual Conference 2003 Harvard Civil Rights Project of Harvard University (9/2003) Business and Professional Women’s Foundation and Women’s Studies
Research Center of Brandeis University 2002
US Congress
Loyola University, Chicago The Bookings Institution, Washington DC The Harvard Club, Boston Institute for Women’s Policy Research, Annual Conference 2001 Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Symposium at Harvard University
“Human rights, the working poor and welfare reform”
“Work and family care in low-wage America”
“Work and family care in low-wage America”
Summer 2004
Poor women, interrogatory histories and poverty research: “You got to be careful what you say”(with Leah Schmalzbauer)
Surviving Poverty, Work, and Bias in Post-Welfare America: How Black and Latino
Mothers Try to Cope with the Continuing Legacy of the Color Line
(Co-author, Tiffany Manuel)
Briefings, round table and caucus presentations on research findings presented to
Democratic and Republican House Ways and Means Committee Staff,
House Committee on Education and the Workforce, and the Senate Finance Committee. Briefings to staff or congresspersons, including: Senators Hilary Clinton (D-NY), Christopher Dodd (D-CT), James Jeffords (I-VT), Edward Kennedy (D-MA), Herb Kohl (D-WI), and Paul Wellstone (D-MN), and Representatives Benjamin Cardin (D-MD), Nancy Johnson (R-CT), Sander Levin (D-MI), John Tierney (D-MA), and Lynn Woolsey (D-CA).
Additionally, presented research at a congressional briefing organized by the Democratic Task Force on Reauthorizing the Temporary Assistance to Needy Families Program with Representatives Barbara Lee (D-CA) and Patsy Mink (D-HI), co-chairs of the task force, and Representative Juanita Millender-McDonald (D-CA), co-chair of the Congressional Caucus for Women’s Issues
The Third Annual Care Conference: “Linking Formal and Informal Carework” (Co-author, Jillian Dickert)
“Living on and off welfare: Ethnographic Research on Low-Income Families”
"When work doesn't pay" Real Life in Low-Income American Families,/p>
“Work, Family, and Community in Low-Income America” (Co-author, Tiffany Manuel)
“Ordinary Heroines: Family and Work in Low-Income America”
The Cambridge Forum, Cambridge
“Children’s Work: Subsidizing the Nation’s Economy
