Dr. Mimi Abramovitz is the Bertha Capen Reynolds Professor of Social Policy at Silberman School of Social Work, Hunter College and The CUNY Graduate Center. She is often introduced as an activist and a scholar. Her research interests include the US welfare state, poverty, inequality, activism and the impact of public policy on human service organizations–all viewed through the lens of race, class and gender.
Widely published in social work and often interviewed by the print and broadcast media, she is the author of four books including Regulating the Lives: Social Welfare Policy from Colonial Time to the Present (Routledge, 3rd ed. 2018). Mimi is the co-founder of the Welfare Rights Initiative at Hunter College and currently co-leads the National Social Work Voter Mobilization Campaign also known as Voting is Social Work
Trained in community organizing and social policy at Columbia School of Social Work, she has been honored with 15 awards, most recently an induction into the Columbia University School of Social Work Hall of Fame and recipient of CSWE’s Significant Lifetime Achievement Award.
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Aside from our interview, you might also want to read her latest op eds:
Mimi Abramovitz: Government Is the Solution, Not the Problem, The New York times (3/21/21) https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/21/opinion/letters/government-role.html
Mimi Abramovitz and Deepak Bhargava: A Real Chance to End Poverty, The Thought Project, CUNY Graduate Center https://medium.com/@iabramov (3/10/21)
Mimi Abramovitz, Deepak Bhargava and Tammy Thomas Miles: The US Safety Net Is Degrading by Design, The Nation. (9/17/20) https://www.thenation.com/article/economy/coronavirus-social-services/
Mimi Abramovitz, Deepak Bhargava: Social Security for All, The American Prospect (9/22/20) https://prospect.org/economy/social-security-for-all/