Dean Linda Burton's research focuses on child welfare & poverty: intergenerational family structures, processes, & role transitions; context & place in the daily lives of families; & childhood adultification & the accelerated life course.
Catherine Mary and Eileen Clare Hutto Professor of Social Services in Public Education Susan Stone is a leading authority on social work in education and its impact on the academic progress of vulnerable youth.
Dr. Joyce Dorado is a Teaching Professor and Associate Dean for Research-Practice Partnerships in the School of Social Welfare at UC Berkeley and the Co-Founder and Director of Healthy Environments and Response to Trauma in Schools (HEARTS). Dr. Dorado is a nationally recognized expert in partnering with schools and other youth-serving systems to create trauma-informed, equitable, and healing organizations. She has served as an appointed member of the California State Supreme Court Justice’s statewide steering committee for the Keeping Kids in School and Out of Courts...
CalSWEC Center Director Kimberly Mayer, MSSW, is responsible for providing leadership and vision for CalSWEC’s programs and operations representing a portfolio of $60 million in grants and contracts.
Christine Scudder (MSW, LCSW, PPSC) brings over 20 years of social work experience to her role as Executive Director of Academic Programs at the School of Social Welfare. Her background includes micro, mezzo and macro levels of practice in areas including mobile crisis response, hospital discharge planning, Assertive Community Treatment, intimate partner violence prevention and intervention services, child welfare, K-12 public schools, legislative advocacy, and psychotherapy with children, youth, and adults.
Prior to coming to Berkeley, Christine was an adjunct faculty with San...