Profile
Mimi Abramovitz is Bertha Capen Reynolds Professor of Social Policy at the Silberman School of Social Work at Hunter College and the Graduate Center, CUNY. She has published widely on issues related to women, poverty, human rights, and the U.S. Welfare State, including more than 90 articles in scholarly journals and the popular press. Dr Abramovitz is currently writing a book on the history of low-income women’s activism in the U.S. since 1900. Her previous books include the award-winning Under Attack, Fighting Back: Women and Welfare in the U.S., Regulating the Lives of Women: Social Welfare Policy From Colonial Times to the Present, The Dynamics of Social Welfare Policy and Taxes are a Woman’s Issue: Reframing the Debate. Dr. Abramovitz is the co-founder of the Welfare Rights Initiative at Hunter College and currently co-leads of the National Social Work Voter Mobilization Campaign (Voting is Social Work). She recently received the Significant Lifetime Achievement in Social Work Education Award from the Council on Social Work Education and was inducted as a Fellow of American Academy of Social Work and Social Welfare.