Leadership

Renée Edwards, Ph.D.

heldrich_robb — Fri, 17 Mar 2023 19:07:59 +0000

Renée Edwards, Ph.D.

heldrich_robb Fri, 03/17/2023 - 19:07

Program/Policy implementation

Program/Policy Evaluation

Health Equity Research

Employer Disability Policy/Practice Research

Technology in Education

Healthcare Program/Policy Research

Qualitative Analysis

Assistant Director of Program Implementation

Edwards, Ph.D.

Renée

Renée Edwards is the Assistant Director of Program Implementation at the Heldrich Center. She earned her doctorate in public policy at Washington State University. She also holds a Master's degree in comparative politics. Renée specializes in program/policy research, implementation, and evaluation at the intersection of education and the workforce. She is interested in understanding how programs/policy affect teaching, learning, and educational/career success and how they impact (and are impacted by) the social environment around them.

Telephone

848.932.1072

r.edwards@rutgers.edu

Linkedin Link

https://www.linkedin.com/in/renee-edwards-b4a54869/

Contributor Type

Leadership

Laurie Harrington

admin — Thu, 22 Oct 2020 14:56:08 +0000

Laurie Harrington

admin Thu, 10/22/2020 - 14:56

Career and Education Awareness

Career and Technical Education

Disability Employment

Health Care Sector Strategies

Program Evaluation

Executive Director

Harrington

Laurie

Laurie Harrington is the Executive Director of the Heldrich Center. She is responsible for the center's work on secondary career and technical education, education and career awareness, sectoral labor market analysis, healthcare sector employment, and the public workforce development system. Harrington is also responsible for developing and managing the center's postsecondary career education and information initiatives and sector-based labor market analyses, including healthcare, childcare, and climate-related initiatives. She has extensive knowledge of workforce development policy, sectoral demand analysis, qualitative program and policy evaluation, work-based welfare policies, school-to-work, disability employment, and the public workforce development and education systems. In addition, Harrington oversees the center’s evaluations of public workforce programs. Harrington received an MPAP from the Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers University.

Telephone

848.932.1694

lharrington@ejb.rutgers.edu

Linkedin Link

https://www.linkedin.com/in/laurie-harrington-67179a122/

Contributor Type

Leadership

Andrea Hetling, Ph.D.

heldrich_robb — Fri, 01 Jul 2022 11:44:39 +0000

Andrea Hetling, Ph.D.

heldrich_robb Fri, 07/01/2022 - 11:44

Gender and Family Policy

housing

Qualitative Research

Statistical Research Methods

Social Policy

Inequality and Disparities

Professor & Associate Director

Hetling, Ph.D.

Andrea

Andrea Hetling is a Professor at the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers University. She is also the newly appointed Associate Director of the Heldrich Center for Workforce Development. Dr. Hetling’s research interests focus on how public programs and policies can support economic well-being and financial stability among vulnerable populations, including families living in poverty and survivors of intimate partner violence. In 2019, Andrea was selected as one of only five Family Self-Sufficiency and Stability Research Network Scholars and awarded a five-year grant by the US Department of Health & Human Services, Administration for Children and Families. Before getting her Ph.D., Andrea worked as a program administrator at a domestic violence agency, focusing on advocacy and development issues. As a strong believer in the public impact of applied policy research, Andrea regularly connects her research projects with her teaching and mentoring and to her service to the greater community.

Telephone

848.932.2963

ahetling@rutgers.edu

Twitter Handle

https://twitter.com/andreahetling?lang=en

Linkedin Link

https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrea-hetling-a46397b9/

Contributor Type

Faculty & Affiliated Faculty

Leadership

William M. Rodgers III, Ph.D.

admin — Thu, 22 Oct 2020 14:55:27 +0000

William M. Rodgers III, Ph.D.

admin Thu, 10/22/2020 - 14:55

Economics of Social Issues

Labor Economics

Professor & Chief Economist

Rodgers III, Ph.D. (currently on leave of absence through 2024)

William

William M. Rodgers III is currently on a leave of absence from his positions as Professor and Chief Economist at the Heldrich Center. During his leave, he is serving as Vice President of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis and Director of the bank's Institute for Economic Equity.

In spring 2006, he joined the graduate faculty at Rutgers' School of Management and Labor Relations. He is also a senior research affiliate of the National Poverty Center, University of Michigan. Prior coming to Rutgers, he served as chief economist at the U.S. Department of Labor from 2000-2001, appointed to that position by Alexis Herman, U.S. Secretary of Labor. He was also the Frances L. and Edwin L. Cummings Professor of Economics at the College of William and Mary. Most recently, he was elected to the National Academy of Social Insurance.

Since coming to Rutgers, Rodgers has served on Montgomery Township's planning board. At the state level, he served on Acting Governor Codey's pensions benefits review task force.

His research examines issues in labor economics and the economics of social problems. In recent years, he has focused his research on the impact of the 1990s economic expansion and now the current job loss recovery on the earnings and employment of Americans. Recently, he and co-author Richard Freeman (Harvard University) published a series of articles titled, "Jobless Recovery: Whatever Happened to the Great American Jobs Machine?" He has published articles in the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, the Journal of Post Keynesian Economics, the Review of Black Political Economy, and Family Economics and Nutrition Review.

His most recent book, The Handbook on the Economics of Discrimination, published by Edgar Elgar was selected by Choice, the review journal of the American Library Association, as an "Oustanding Academic Book" for 2006.

His most recent research on the logisitics chain is funded by the National Science Foundation. He recently completed a study of the state of New Jersey's minorities for the New Jersey State Employment and Training Commission and the Fund for New Jersey, and wrote a piece for the National Urban League's State of Black America on why African Americans need to show greater interests in macroeconomic policy.

Rodgers' expertise is frequently called upon by journalists for articles in The New York Times, U.S.A. Today, Business Week, and other publications. He has been a guest on CNBC and CNNfn and many radio talk shows. His policy work includes testifying before the New Jersey Assembly Commerce and Economic Development Committee, New Jersey State Labor Committee, Joint Economic Committee, U.S. Congress, the Joint Sub-Committee Studying the Status and Needs of African American Males in Virginia, and serving as a consultant for the state of Virginia, the Joint Center for Economic and Political Studies, and the AFL-CIO.

Rodgers serves on numerous boards. He is Immediate-Past President of the National Economic Association, and a former co-chair of the Programs and Planning Committee of the United Way of Greater Williamsburg. In October 2004, he joined the Board of the United Way of Somerset County, and in spring 2007, Rodgers became vice-chairman of the Board. He is currently a member of the American Economic Association's Committee on the Status of Minorities in the Economics Profession, and runs the Association's mentoring program that seeks to increase the numbers of minorities that obtain economic doctorates. Rodgers is a member of the National Urban League Institute for Opportunity and Equality Advisory Board. In spring 2007, President Marc Morial appointed Rodgers to the League's Council of Economic Advisors. He has served on the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation's Council of Academic Advisors, and the Economic Policy Institute's Research Advisory Board. He continues his service on the board of the University of Kentucky Center for Poverty Research Center.

wrodgers@ejb.rutgers.edu

Linkedin Link

https://www.linkedin.com/in/william-rodgers-31a0b7a/

Contributor Type

Faculty & Affiliated Faculty

Leadership

Carl E. Van Horn, Ph.D.

admin — Thu, 22 Oct 2020 14:55:34 +0000

Carl E. Van Horn, Ph.D.

admin Thu, 10/22/2020 - 14:55

Dislocated Workers

long-term unemployment

Older Workers

Research Design

workforce policy

Director & Distinguished Professor of Public Policy

Van Horn, Ph.D.

Carl

Carl Van Horn is Distinguished Professor of Public Policy at the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy and the founding Director of the John J. Heldrich Center for Workforce Development at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. He is an elected Fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration. Since 2013, he has been a Visiting, Non-Resident, Scholar with the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta. He is also Senior Advisor for Strategy and Planning in the Office of New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy.

Van Horn is the author or editor of 17 books and over 150 scholarly articles and reports on American public policy and the American labor market including Working Scared (Or not at All, (2014); Transforming U.S. Workforce Development Policies for the 21st Century (2015); and Investing in America’s Workforce (2018).

Van Horn has held several senior positions in government at the state and federal levels, including: Director of Policy for the State of New Jersey; Chair of the Board of Directors of the New Jersey Economic Development Authority; Member of the Boards of NJ Transit and the Commission on Science and Technology; and, Senior Economist, Joint Economic Committee of the U.S. Congress.

President Clinton appointed Van Horn to a Presidential Emergency Board to mediate labor-management disputes in the railroad industry. He is the neutral Trustee of the United Mine Workers Health Fund and a member of the New Brunswick Cultural Center Board.

Van Horn graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Pittsburgh in Honors Political Science and Sociology and earned a M.A. and Ph.D. in political science/public policy from the Ohio State University.

Telephone

848.932.1153

vanhorn@rutgers.edu

Linkedin Link

https://www.linkedin.com/in/carl-van-horn-230999b6/

Contributor Type

Faculty & Affiliated Faculty

Leadership

Stephanie Walsh

admin — Thu, 22 Oct 2020 14:55:43 +0000

Stephanie Walsh

admin Thu, 10/22/2020 - 14:55

Data Collection and Analysis

Income and Work Support Policies

TANF

SNAP

Medicaid

CHIP

childcare

tax credits

housing

Program Evaluation

Assistant Director of Research & Director of NJSDS

Walsh, Ph.D.

Stephanie

Stephanie Walsh is the Assistant Director of Research at the Heldrich Center. She earned her doctorate in planning and public policy at Rutgers University. She also holds a Master's degree in public policy. Stephanie also serves as the Director of the New Jersey Statewide Data System, overseeing the governance, research agenda, and publications that use the linked longitudinal data. Her research interests focus on how data can inform public programs and policies to better support service delivery and improve individual outcomes.

Telephone

848.932.1084

stephanie.walsh@ejb.rutgers.edu

Linkedin Link

https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephanielholcomb/

Contributor Type

Leadership