SERVICES

Service School of Social Work Service

Member, Preyer Professorship Search Committee 2009-2010
Member, Recruitment and Admissions Committee 2009-2010
Member, Research Sequence Committee 2009-2010
Member, Committee on Students 2009-2010
Member, Search Committee 2008-2009
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

Presenter, "Seven wisdoms I learnt about negotiation." School of Government, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2006.

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, Ph.D. Curriculum Committee, George Warren Brown School of Social
Work, Washington University in St. Louis, 2002-2003.

Ph.D. student representative, 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.

Editorial Service

Reviewer
Book proposal for Columbia University Press.

Grant Reviewer
Doctoral Dissertation Research Grant, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development

Editorial Board
Journal of Consumer Affairs
Journal of the Society for Social Work and Research
Journal of Children and Poverty

Consulting Editor
Social Work Research

Manuscripts Reviewer
Child & Family Social Work
Children and Youth Services Review
Demography
Housing Policy Debate
Housing Studies
Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
Journal of Adolescence
Journal of Adolescent Health
Journal of Consumer Affairs
Journal of Family and Economic Issues
Journal of Marriage and the Family
Journal of Social Service Research
Journal of the Society for Social Work and Research
Rural Sociology
Social Service Review
Social Work Research

Conference Reviewer
(Review abstracts for conference presentations), SSWR Conferences 2007 - 2011

State and Community Service

Member, NC Asset Building and Financial Education Conference Planning Committee 2011
Member, NC Asset Building and Financial Education Program Planning Committee 2011
Member, NC Asset Building and Financial Education Conference Planning Committee 2009
Member, NC Asset Building and Financial Education Program Planning Committee 2009
Member, NC Children Savings Account Task Force 2007-present
Member, NC Asset Building Policy Task Force 2006-present
Member, NC Asset Building Policy Task Force Steering Committee 2006- present
Member, NC toolkit for the Assets for Persons with Disabilities Advisory Board 2006-2007
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, "$aveNYC" project develop at the Office of Financial Empowerment, Department of Consumer Affairs, New York, NY
Co-organizer, "Junior Faculty Interest Group" at the Society for Social Work and Research annual conference 2007
Organizer, "Asset-building and Social Work Research Interest Group" at the Society for Social Work and Research annual conference 2009, 2010

National and International Conferences Organized

2011 Return to Savings: Building Savings with Tax Refunds
Sponsored by: UNC Asset Building Research Group, Duke University, and Intuit in Chapel Hill, NC
Co-organizer: Dan Ariely

2010 Savings Strategies and Innovations for Low-Income Households
Sponsored by: Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland and the UNC Asset
Building Research Group in Columbus, OH
Co-organizer: Emre Ergungor

2010 Creating Opportunity for Children and Youth: An Asset Building
Demonstration
Sponsored by: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Washington
University, Center for Social Development, and the Israeli Ministry for Social
Affairs, New York
Co-organizer: Yekutiel Sabah

2010 Advancing the Asset Building Research Agenda
Sponsored by: US Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families
Co-organizer: Abt Associates

2010 Child Development Accounts in Israel: Toward a New Initiative
Sponsored by: Washington University, Center for Social Development, Brookings Institute, Israeli Ministry of Social Affairs, and Brookdale Institute, in Jerusalem, Israel
Co-organizer: Yekutiel Sabah

2009 Asset Development in the U.S. and Israel: Current evidence and future
Initiatives
Sponsored by: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Israeli Ministry of
Social Affairs, and Israeli National Insurance Institute, in New York
Co-organizer: Daniel Gottlieb and Yekutiel Sabah

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
National Association of Social Workers
Society for Social Work and Research
Influencing State Policy
Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management