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Brief bios and pictures of the Center for Social Research staff.
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Tim Black, Ph.D., director of CSR and Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Hartford. His research focuses on poverty, race/ethnicity, social welfare, and human service program development and assessment. He has studied home visitation programs to strengthen vulnerable families for 12 years as well as fatherhood initiative programs. He is currently completing a book entitled, When a Heart Turns Rock Solid: How Jobs and Prison Shaped a Generation of Puerto Rican Men, based upon a 18-year ethnographic study of marginalized Puerto Rican men. Phone: (860) 523-9643 Email: Tblack @ hartford.edu |
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Marcia Hughes, Ph.D., assistant director, is primarily responsible for the design and management of research and evaluation projects. She received her Ph.D. in human development and family studies, an M.S. in the behavioral sciences, and a B.A. in psychology. Marcia has been providing program development and evaluation services to nonprofit organizations, state agencies, and school systems for over fifteen years, and takes particular satisfaction in contributing to collaborative, multilevel, and interdisciplinary efforts. She has a range of program and research interests that include child welfare and primary prevention, youth development and transition to adulthood, family and community outreach, family-school relations, mentoring programs, and closing the achievement gap, and the cultural aspects (in a broad sense) of development. Phone: (860) 523-9646 Email: Mhughes @ hartford.edu |
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Meredith Damboise, project manager at the CSR, has been working at the CSR for 11 years. She is currently overseeing the evaluations of the Nurturing Families Network, Help Me Grow, and Family/School Connection programs. Meredith has her Master’s degree in General Experimental Psychology with a focus on quantitative methods. Phone: (860) 523-9644 Email: Damboise @ hartford.edu |
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Madelyn Figueroa, senior database manager, is responsible for the data of the statewide sites and the New Haven expansion. She has worked at CSR for seven years and is currently finishing a Bachelor’s degree in Human Services from Springfield College. Phone: (860) 523-9642 Email: Figueroa @ hartford.edu |
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Kevin Lamkins, research assistant, is currently researching racial and ethnic disparities in Connecticut and developing the CSR website. Phone: (860) 523-0691 Email: Lamkins @ hartford.edu |
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Jesenia M. Maldonado, database manager. Phone: (860) 523-0728 Email: JMaldonad @ hartford.edu |
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Sagacity Walker, field researcher, is a recent graduate of the University of Hartford’s Hartt School of Music, Dance and Theatre. After graduating with a Bachelor’s Degree in Performing Arts Management, Sagacity sought avenues to bridge his passion for music with community activism; he has volunteered and worked in several Hartford-based after school initiatives utilizing art as a tool for social change. In 2007 Sagacity began working for the Center for Social Research full time. He is currently gathering and analyzing data from Fatherhood Initiative Programs as well as information concerning non-custodial fathers. Sagacity is also involved in program evaluation and plans to further his education in the realm of qualitative social research methods. Phone: (860) 523-0736 Email: MWalker @ hartford.edu |
