Jill Duerr Berrick is a Distinguished Professor and the Zellerbach Family Foundation Professor of Social Welfare. She also holds a joint appointment as a Professor II at the University of Bergen, Norway.
Dr. Berrick's research focuses on the child welfare system and efforts to improve the experiences of children and families touched by foster care. Her interests target the intersection of poverty, childhood development, parenting and the service systems designed to address family well-being. Berrick’s research approach typically relies upon the...
Dr. Kristina Lovato is an Assistant Professor of Social Welfare at the University of California, Berkeley, where she also serves as Director of the Center on Immigration and Child Welfare Initiative (CICW)She is also an inaugural member of the Latinx & Democracy Cluster at UC Berkeley. For over 20 years, Dr. Lovato has worked at the intersection of immigration and child well-being as a researcher, social work educator, and former bilingual social work...
Dr. Wiegmann's many years of experience includes the last nine years with CCWIP and other research projects, analyzing linked and unlinked administrative data to examine a number of different child welfare phenomena. In prior years with CCWIP, she has taken on a number of leadership roles — planning and managing research projects; collaborating with partnered research agencies;...
