Assistant Professors

Laurent Reyes

Assistant Professor

Assistant Professor Laurent Reyesis committed to developing research that challenges current systems of inequality that directly affect older Black and Latinx adults. As an activist scholar and storyteller, Dr. Reyes leans on qualitative and visual methods to listen and elevate lifetime stories of resistance and solidarity among Latinx and Black elders to re-imagine a new framework of civic participation emerging from their lived experience. The goal of this research is to shift socio-political focus and resources towards the work and solutions that historically oppressed communities have...

Angela Perone

Assistant Professor

Dr. Angela (Angie) Perone is an Assistant Professor at the School of Social Welfare at UC Berkeley and directs the Center for Advanced Study of Aging Services. Dr. Perone is a licensed attorney and interdisciplinary scholar. Dr. Perone previously served as a civil rights attorney, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation health policy fellow in the United States Senate, and founding Executive Director of SAGE Metro Detroit. Dr. Perone’s research focuses on equitable aging, caregiving, and health policy and merges law, social services, and social science. Her current projects focus on conflicting...

Erin Michelle Turner Kerrison

Assistant Professor

Assistant Professor Erin Michelle Turner Kerrison's work extends from a legal epidemiological framework, wherein law and legal institutions condition structural determinants of health. Specifically, through varied agency partnerships, her mixed-method research agenda investigates the impact that compounded structural disadvantage, concentrated poverty, and state supervision has on service delivery, substance misuse, violence and other health outcomes for individuals and communities marked by criminal legal system intervention.

Dr. Kerrison's research has been supported by a...

Serena Redux: On the US Open, Race, Gender + Public Health

September 11, 2018
Tina Sacks

Tina Sacks reflects on the spectrum of public reactions to Serena Williams breaking a tennis racket during a US Open match, reactions that signify "Serena’s long history of disrespect at the hands of the game she has almost singlehandedly remade and reinvigorated."

Angela Perone appointed to Gerontological Society of America's Public Policy Advisory Panel

September 28, 2022

Assistant Professor Angela Perone was appointed to the Public Policy Advisory Panel of the Gerontological Society of America, the oldest and largest interdisciplinary organization devoted to research, education, and practice in the field of aging. From the GSA: "The Public Policy Advisory Panel provides specialized expertise, advice, key information, and support in the area of public policy and...

Assistant Professor Tina Sacks featured on Berkeley Talks

February 1, 2019

What are some of the current challenges to maintaining social welfare programs for the nation’s most vulnerable people in the Trump era? Assistant Professor Tina Sacks explores this issue in the latest podcast in the Berkeley Talks series. Her lecture gives an overview of the incidence and demographics of poverty in the United States, then traces the history of sometimes draconian social safety net programs before examining their evolution under the current administration.

Listen to "The American...