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Gerald Smith, Chairperson Prior to joining The Endowment, Johnson was the associate director of the Rockefeller Foundation’s Working Communities program, which seeks to transform poor urban neighborhoods into working communities by increasing the amount and quality of employment, improving the quality of all urban schools, and revitalizing low-income neighborhoods through mixed-income community development. Johnson, who has extensive academic and professional experience in social welfare and public policy, has served as the associate secretary for Planning and Evaluation for the California Health and Human Services Agency, and has staffed the U.S. House of Representatives’ Select Committee on Hunger. A noted published author, lecturer and researcher, he was honored with the Nathan Cohen Award from UCLA’s School of Social Welfare (1991), the Jeff and Judy Bergman Award from UCLA (1991) and the UC Chancellor’s Dissertation Fellowship (1992). He is also a member of the board of directors of the Center for Fathers, Families and Public Policy in Madison, Wisconsin, and serves as vice-chair of the California Trust for Public Schools. Johnson,
based in The Endowment’s San Francisco office, received his
bachelor’s degree in political science from The American University,
master’s degree in public policy studies from the University of Chicago,
and doctorate in social welfare from UCLA. Daniel has a M.P.P. from the Harris School of Public Policy at the University of Chicago and a B.A. in Economics from Oberlin College. He also completed a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship at Princeton University. Originally from Youngstown, Ohio, Daniel resides in the Woodlawn neighborhood of Chicago with his wife, Sarah Karp, and their three sons, DeVonte, Josiah and Zion.  Carole Doeppers, Secretary Before her recent retirement, Carole was an independent data privacy consultant based in Madison. She served as a privacy ombudsman for government agencies, provided HIPAA training and spoke on a variety of privacy-related topics. In the early 1990s, Doeppers was appointed Wisconsin’s first, and only, state Privacy Advocate. In that capacity she developed Principles for Fair Information Practices, the first state-level set of standards to guide the ethical use and dissemination of personal information in electronic format. Subsequently, she directed the Wisconsin Data Privacy Project funded by the American Civil Liberties Union of Wisconsin. This project allowed her to continue and extend her prioneering work begun as a state public official. She authored several reports that were consolidated into a publication entitled "Wisconsin’s Electronic Government." Doeppers holds a Master of Arts degree from the Robert M. LaFollette School of Public Affairs at the UW-Madison. She currently serves on the Dane County Ethics Board and is on the board of the University of Wisconsin Credit Union . Tonya Brito Professor Tonya Brito received her undergraduate degree from Barnard College, Columbia University in 1986. She received her law degree from Harvard Law School, where she graduated cum laude, served as Executive Editor of the Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review, and was a student attorney with the Harvard Legal Aid Bureau. Professor Brito's scholarly interests are in the areas of family law, children's issues and poverty law. She has written on the relationship between family law and welfare law, child support, and the image of mothers in poverty discourse. More recently, she has worked with colleagues across campus as part of the Institute for Research on Poverty's Child Support Demonstration Evaluation. Her work here has examined how the child support rules treat families where there is multiple partner fertility and how the child support rules treat situations of shared parenting. At UW—Madison, she teaches courses in Civil Procedure, Family Law and seminars she developed entitled Children, Law & Society and Adoption Law & Policy. Professor Brito serves as an executive board member of the Wisconsin Council on Children and Families, serves on the executive board of the Center for Excellence in Family Studies at the UW, and is an affiliate of the UW Institute for Research on Poverty. Prior to joining UW—Madison, Professor Brito clerked for Judge John Garrett Penn of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, practiced civil litigation for four years with the law firm of Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering in Washington, D.C., and served on the law faculty at Arizona State University College of Law.Adrienne Brooks Adrienne Brooks is Director of Major Gifts, a fundraising consultant who has assisted non-profit organizations for over twenty-two years. Beginning as a social worker and program developer, Ms. Brooks learned the art of fundraising through a commitment to ensure that programs that employed her were fiscally healthy. She has played a key role in raising a wide range of funds for human service organizations, both "grass-roots", as well as nationally recognized non-profits. This includes Nia Comprehensive Center, Howard Area Community Center, Lutheran Family Services, ChildServ, Little Brothers-Friends of the Elderly, and United Way-Metropolitan Chicago. Assuming the primary role as grant-writer for the aforestated organizations, Ms. Brooks evolved as a top resource development administrator, overseeing fundraising, marketing, planned giving, and special events for a wide variety of human service organizations throughout the Chicago area. For the past 17 years, Ms. Brooks has taught as an adjunct professor for the social science and psychology departments of National Louis University (Chicago), Aurora University (Aurora, IL) and the City Colleges of Chicago. She also makes frequent presentations on non-profit board training and grant-writing techniques. Ms. Brooks holds a Bachelors Degree in Social Work from New Mexico
Highlands University in Las, Vegas, New Mexico, and a Masters Degree
in Clinical
Social Work from Our Lady of the Lake-University of San Antonio,
in San Antonio, Texas. Ms. Brooks has also done post-graduate
work at Erickson Institute for Early Childhood Studies in Chicago,
Il.
and National Louis University, where she pursued a doctorate
in Educational Psychology. Bobby Verdugo Oliver Williams Oliver J. Williams, Ph.D., Executive Director of the Institute on Domestic Violence in the African American Community, and a Professor in the School of Social Work at the University of Minnesota, in St. Paul. He is also the Director of the Safe Return Initiative that addresses the issues of prisoner reentry and domestic violence. He has worked in the field of domestic violence for more than twenty-nine years. Dr. Williams has worked in battered women's shelters, developed curricula for batterers' intervention programs and facilitated counseling groups in these programs. He has provided training across the United States and abroad on research and service-delivery surrounding partner abuse. Dr. Williams' extensive research and publications in scholarly journals and books have centered on creating service delivery strategies to reduce violent behavior. Dr. Williams received a bachelor's degree in social work from Michigan State University; a Masters in Social Work from Western Michigan University; a Masters in Public Health and a Ph.D. in Social Work both from the University of Pittsburgh. |
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