Erika Kates, Ph.D. was most recently, research director of the Center for Women in Politics and Public Policy at the University of Massachusetts Boston, 2002-2007. In this capacity she supervised research projects on topics including the incidence of HIV/Aids among women of color, the numbers of women appointed to political office, the family connections of women in prison, and workforce development and public assistance policies on access to education. She also initiated the Center’s work in program evaluation of projects serving women.  Dr Kates was executive director and co-founder of the Welfare Training Access Coalition at the Heller school, Brandeis University, 1997-2002; associate director of the Family Preservation Evaluation Project at Tufts University, and senior research associate, the Family Evaluation Project, at the Harvard Family Research Project. She was interim Dean of Student Affairs at Smith College, and for ten years served as a scholar at the Project on Women and Social Change, Smith College. Dr Kates, who obtained her Ph.D. from the Heller School, has a Diploma in Urban and Regional Planning from the Architectural Association, London, and B. Sc. (hons) in Sociology from London University.  She has published widely in peer reviewed journals and book chapters, and produced numerous policy reports, fact sheets and policy briefs.

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