SERVICES

GRANT REVIEWER
· Doctoral Dissertation Research Grant, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development

MANUSCRIPTS REVIEWER
· Journal of Social Service Research
· Children and Youth Services Review
· Journal of Marriage and the Family
· Journal of Adolescence
· Child & Family Social Work
· Housing Studies
· Rural Sociology

CONFERENCE REVIEWER (Review abstracts for conference presentations)
· SSWR Conference 2007 - 2009

SCHOOL OF SOCIAL WORK SERVICE
· Member, Alumni Survey Committee, 2007-2008
· Co-Chair, Reaccreditation Evaluation Committee 2007-2008
· Member, Search Committee 2007-2008
· Member, Research Curriculum Development Group 2007-2008
· Member, Committee on Students 2006-2008
· Member, Doctoral Committee 2006-2008
· Member, IRB Committee 2006-2008
· Member, Admissions Committee 2006-2007
· Member, Daniels Search Committee 2006-2007

UNIVERSITY SERVICE
· Member, Advisory Board for the University of North Carolina, Center on Poverty, Work and Opportunity 2006-2008
· Moderator and Co-organizer, Center on Poverty, Work and Opportunity March 2007 Conference, Panel on Race and Poverty
· Member, Focus group series planning committee for the Center on Poverty, Work and Opportunity 2006-2007
· Project assistant "Market Issues and Direction for Social Work Career Development: Learning From the Past, Charting the Future." George Warren Brown School of Social Work, Washington University in St. Louis, 2003.
· Member of the Ph.D. Curriculum Committee, George Warren Brown School of Social Work, Washington University in St. Louis, 2002-2003.
· Ph.D. student representative in the Career Services Committee, George Warren Brown School of Social Work, Washington University in St. Louis, 2001-2002.
· Ph.D. student representative to the administrative committee, George Warren Brown School of Social Work, Washington University in St. Louis, 2000-2002.
· MSW student representative to the administrative committee, School of Social Work, University of Haifa, 1998.

STATE AND COMMUNITY SERVICE
· Member, NC Asset Building Policy Task Force 2006-2008
· Member, NC Asset Building Policy Task Force Steering Committee 2006-2008
· Member, NC toolkit for the Assets for Persons with Disabilities Advisory Board 2006-2007
· Member, NC Children Savings Account Task Force 2007-2008
· Member, The Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond Loan performances research team 2007-2008
· Member, MacArthur Foundation Working Group
· Member, Society for Cost Benefit Analysis.
· Consultant, "AutoSave project" at New America Foundation.
· Consultant, "SaveNYC" project develop at the Office of Financial Empowerment, Department of Consumer Affairs, New York, NY

OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACHIEVEMENTS

Research highlighted in government publications:

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. (2006, August). Ideas that work: Building communities through homeownership. Washington, DC: Author.

This publication is directed toward a wide range of community organizations working to establish homeownership programs.

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. (2007, Inaugural Issue). Timeline for success (Newsletter of the Office of Policy Development and Research). Research in Focus, 1, 3- 5.

This publication launched HUD's monthly newsletter directed toward the academic community, and intended to stimulate and encourage scholarship focused on housing and community development.

Policy Interview (foreign press)

In depth interview on policy development for IDAs and asset building in the United States. Published in Korean in Global Social Security Today. Korea Institute for Health and Social Affairs: Seoul, Korea