Laura S. Abrams, PhD is a Professor of Social Welfare at the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs. She received her BA in history from Brandeis University and her MSW and PhD from the UC Berkeley School of Social Welfare. Sandra Edmonds Crewe, PhD, MSW, BSW, ACSW is Dean and Professor, Howard University School of Social Work. She received her BSW/MSW from the National Catholic School of Social Service, Catholic University of America, and inaugural Ph.D. social work degree from Howard University, Washington, DC. Alan J. Dettlaff, PhD is Dean of the Graduate College of Social Work at the University of Houston and the inaugural Maconda Brown O'Connor Endowed Dean's Chair. James Herbert Williams, PhD., MSW, MPA is the Arizona Centennial Professor of Social Welfare Services at the School of Social Work at Arizona State University.