National Advisory Board

A distinguished and diverse group of faculty serve as members of the Poverty Center’s external Advisory Board, offering additional guidance for the Center’s work from scholars beyond the University of Washington and providing the core of a developing network of west coast poverty researchers. Along with Donald S. Oellerich, Program Officer, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, and Sheldon Danziger, Co-Director, National Poverty Center, University of Michigan, board members include:

• Henry Brady (Economics and Political Science)
  Professor, Department of Political Science and Graduate School of Public Policy, University of California at Berkeley Director, UC Data/Survey Research Center
  Specializations: electoral politics; social welfare policy; survey research
  
  
• Thomas MaCurdy (Economics)
  Professor, Department of Economics, Stanford University Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution Senior Fellow, Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research Adjunct Fellow, Public Policy Institute of California
  Specializations: labor economics; welfare policy; health economics
  
  
• Michael Stoll (Urban Studies/Planning)
  Associate Professor of Policy Studies, School of Public Policy and Social Research, University of California at Los Angeles Associate Director, Center for the Study of Urban Poverty
  Specializations: African Americans in the labor market; race and poverty
  
  
• Bruce Weber (Economics)
  Professor and Extension Economist, Agricultural and Resource Economics, Oregon State University
  Specializations: rural poverty
  
  
• Min Zhou (Sociology)
  Professor, Department of Sociology, University of California at Los Angeles, Professor Founding Chair, Department of Asian American Studies
  Specializations: immigration; Asian Americans; race and ethnicity