The Power of Policy

Jessica M. Kahn worked in child welfare, mental health, and healthcare settings focusing on vulnerable and marginalized populations and saw the power that policy has to affect people>'s daily lives. Initially focusing on child welfare and foster care, she recognized the need for comprehensive, preventative social welfare programs, including high quality early childhood education and care. Her research and writing have addressed family policy, social work pedagogy, and implementation of evidence-based practices, among other topics. For 18 years, she taught across the social work curriculum at Lehman College of the City University of New York. She is currently the Associate Dean at the Wurzweiler School of Social Work at Yeshiva University. Jessica earned her BA from Davidson College, her MSW from Washington University in St. Louis, and her PhD from Columbia University. Joy Pastan Greenberg earned her MSW degree from New York University in 1994. After running parenting groups for new parents and caregivers for many years, she returned to school and earned her PhD from the Columbia University School of Social Work in 2007 with a concentration in Social Policy, Planning, and Policy Analysis. Upon graduation, she joined the Social Work faculty at Lehman College of the City University of New York. She has taught policy, research, and administration courses. In addition to her teaching, she has served as Director of the MSW Program since 2014. Her research experience, both qualitative and quantitative, focuses on early childhood education and care policy, immigrant children, and school social work. She is the co-author of Early Childhood Education and Care: History, Policy, and Social Work Practice and has published in social work journals. Norma Kolko Phillips earned her MSW degree from the Hunter College School of Social Work in New York City amid the exciting and social welfare policy-rich decade of the 1960s. Through the course entitled

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