Narratives of Social and Economic Justice

Roberta R. Greene, PhD, MSW, is professor and Louis and Ann Wolens Centennial Chair in Gerontology at the School of Social Work, University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Greene is the author and coauthor of numerous publications, including Foundations of Social Work Practice in the Field of Aging: A Competency- Based Approach (NASW Press, 2007), Social Work Practice: A Risk and Resilience Perspective (Brooks/Cole, 2007), Contemporary Issues of Care (Haworth Press, 2007), Resiliency: An Integrated Framework for Practice, Research, and Policy (NASW Press, 2002), and Social Work with the Aged and Their Families (Aldine de Gruyter, 2000). She serves on a number of editorial review boards, including that of the Journal of Social Work Education, and is currently engaged in research that incorporates filmmaking and Web site design.

Harriet L. Cohen, PhD, LCSW, is associate professor in the Department of Social Work, Texas Christian University (TCU) in Fort Worth, and brings 26 years of experience as a social work practitioner with older adults into the classroom and her research. She has published in numerous journals and is a coauthor of Foundations of Social Work Practice in the Field of Aging: A Competency-Based Approach (NASW Press, 2007). Since joining the faculty at TCU, Dr. Cohen has helped to establish the Center on Healthy Aging and to develop the Healthy Aging minor. Her research interests include two vulnerable populations—older Holocaust survivors and older lesbians and gay men—and her current research documents the contributions of Holocaust survivors in Texas, utilizing multimodal learning formats.

John M. Gonzalez, PhD, MSW, is assistant professor in the Department of Social Work, University of Texas–Pan American. Dr. Gonzalez received his BA in psychology and sociology from the University of Texas at Austin, his MSW from Texas State University at San Marcos, and his PhD from the University of Texas at Austin. A former Council on Social Work Education Minority Research Fellow, he has authored and coauthored a variety of publications on older Latinos and mental health services and older adults overcoming oppression. His research interests are older Latinos and the delivery of mental health services.

Youjung Lee, PhD, MSW, is visiting assistant professor, Department of Social Work, Binghamton University, State University of New York. Dr. Lee received her MSW in 2002 and her PhD in 2007 from the University of Texas at Austin. Her research interests involve positive aspect of family caregiving and resilience in minority older adults, focusing on the disparities of minority family caregiving dynamics between spouse caregivers and child caregivers. She has published on issues of minority family caregiving and the resilience of minority older adults who overcame discriminations and has taught on human behavior and the social environment and program evaluation in social work practice.