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Jacquelyn Boggess: Co-Director of CFFPP Jacquelyn Boggess has worked with the Center since its inception in 1995. She is the Project Director for the Center's Legal Assistance Project. Her work on this project includes research of state and federal child support and paternity establishment law and policy with a particular emphasis on its effect on low-income, never-married fathers. The Project is designed to provide legal information and education about child support to low-income parents. In addition, she has developed a Q&A legal resource, and co-authored a child support manual for parents and practitioners who have questions and concerns about child support and paternity establishment. Also, Ms. Boggess has a particular interest in the impact of non-resident father involvement on mothers and children and she represents CFFPP in a partnership (the Common Ground Project) with National Women's Law Center. Ms. Boggess is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin at Madison Law School. Rebecca May: Senior Policy Analyst for CFFPP Rebecca May writes the Center's monthly policy fax briefings and tracks current welfare and child support policy and legislation. She is currently working on issues of incarceration and child support, and assists with the Wisconsin Forum. Ms. May has a Masters' degree in Social Welfare Policy from the University of Chicago, with a concentration in Urban Poverty and Youth Employment. She has worked on issues of welfare policy and employment as an Operations Associate for MDRC, a policy analyst for the Illinois Legislative Advisory Committee on Public Aid, an Employment Specialist for the City of Berkeley, and as the Executive Director of St. Elizabeth Youth Employment Corporation in Oakland, California. Carol Medaris: Senior Legal Analyst for CFFPP Carol Medaris tiptoes out of retirement one day a week to provide legal analysis and support in the areas of state welfare and family law. Ms. Medaris practiced law for 19 years with Legal Action of Wisconsin, an agency that provides legal services for low-income families. She practiced primarily in the area of welfare law with some family law practice, representing clients before state and federal courts as well as in administrative hearings. She also advocated on behalf of low-income families before the state legislature and state administrative agencies and then continued that advocacy for 10 years with the Wisconsin Council on Children and Families. For her first two years out of law school, she represented state prisoners in conditions of confinement cases. She received her J.D. degree from the University of Wisconsin in 1976. Louisa Medaris: Manager of Operations for CFFPP Louisa Medaris joins the organization to manage all aspects of the office. She brings fourteen years of experience working in varied settings ranging from banking and reproductive health care to catering and criminal defense. Ms. Medaris has studied commercial art at Madison Area Technical College and has interests that include camping, hiking, cooking, music, travel, gardening, and hosting parties. David Pate: Co-Director and Founder of CFFPP David Pate has worked in the field of social work for over twenty-five years. He has experience as a practitioner, administrator and public policy advocate in the areas of low-income adolescents and adult males, fathers and families. He has made numerous presentations and written articles on the issues that relate to the provision of service to minority males and the effects of social welfare policy on their day to day existence. He is an Assistant Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Helen Bader School of Social Welfare. He holds a doctorate in Social Welfare from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He was a W.K. Kellogg fellow in the Kellogg National Leadership Fellowship program. Marguerite Roulet: Director of Programs for CFFPP Marguerite Roulet has been involved in developing and reporting on the Center's colloquium series, reviewing research regarding low-income noncustodial fathers, documenting the implementation of a new program in Madison, Wisconsin that serves low-income noncustodial fathers, and developing the Center's current project on domestic violence and the fatherhood movement. In 1994, Ms. Roulet received a doctorate in anthropology from the University of Michigan. Her research centered on the negotiation of gender relations within familial and community contexts in northern India.

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