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...

“We will build together”: Sowing the seeds of SEL statewide

Valerie Shapiro
Addison M. Duane
Mai Xi Lee
Tiffany M. Jones
Ashley N. Metzger
Sobia Khan
Channa M. Cook
Sophia H.J. Hwang
Brent Malicote
Alejandro Nuñez
Juyeon Lee
Mike McLaughlin
Jonathan A. Caballero
Julia E. Moore
Christopher Williams
Amy L. Eva
Colleen Ferreira
Pamela McVeagh-Lally
Jim Kooler
CalHOPE Research Committee
2024
Social and emotional learning (SEL) has been lauded as important for student success. However, little guidance is available for how educators, scholars, and policymakers can work together to improve SEL implementation in public schools across a state. Here, we describe CalHOPE Student Support – an effort to “sow the seeds” of SEL across California. Invoking the metaphor of a garden, we first discuss the...

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.

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