Poverty Awareness at UNC

UNC-Chapel Hill has a long tradition of serving North Carolina. Beyond that, our growing global interdependence means that UNC students, faculty and staff have brought their dedication, energy and talents to bear on a range of problems confronting people throughout the world.

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UNC Organizations

• APPLES Service-Learning
• Campus Y
• Carolina Center for Public Service
• Carolina Microfinance Initiative
• Center for Civil Rights
• Community Empowerment Fund
• Engineers Without Borders
• Extended Disaster Relief
• Global Medical Brigades
• HOPE (Homeless Outreach Poverty Eradication)
• Insight Out
• Office of Economic and Business Development
• Patchwork
• Roosevelt Institute UNC
• Strive for College
• Student Action with Workers - Students Against Sweatshops
• Student Global Health Committee
• Student Health Action Coalition
• Student Poverty Reduction Outreach (SPROUT)
• UNC Habitat for Humanity
• UNC School of Law Pro Bono Program

Faculty/Staff Poverty Researchers

• Howard Aldrich, Kenan Professor and chair, Department of Sociology
• Alice Ammerman, associate professor, Department of Nutrition, School of Public Health
• Kenneth Andrews, associate professor, director of Undergraduate Studies, Department of Sociology
• Richard N. L. (Pete) Andrews, Thomas Willis Lambeth Distinguished Professor of Public Policy
• Ed Baker, professor of health policy and administration, School of Public Health and
  Director, N.C. Institute for Public Health
• Michele Berger, assistant professor, Department of Women's Studies
  Adjunct Professor, Department of Political Science
• Lynn Blanchard, director, Carolina Center for Public Service
• Judith Blau, professor, Department of Sociology and chair, Social and Economic Justice
• Jack Boger, dean and
  Wade Edwards Distinguished Professor of Law, School of Law
• Anita Brown-Graham, director, Institute for Emerging Issues, N.C. State University
  Adjunct Professor, School of Government
• Neal Caren, assistant professor, Department of Sociology
• Joanne S. Caye, clinical assistant professor, School of Social Work
• Mimi Chapman, associate professor, School of Social Work
• Pat Conway, professor, Department of Economics
• Gail Corrado, lecturer, Department of Public Policy
• Kyle Crowder, Howard W. Odum Distinguished Professor, Department of Sociology
• Mathieu Despard, clinical assistant professor, School of Social Work
• Marcie Fisher-Borne, Ph.D. candidate, School of Social Work
• Daniel P. Gitterman associate professor, Department of Public Policy, director of undergraduate studies
• Michal Grinstein-Weiss, assistant professor, School of Social Work
• Jacqueline Hagan, professor, Department of Sociology
• Jacquelyn Hall, Julia Cherry Spruill Professor of History and Director, Southern Oral History Program
• Sudhanshu (Ashu) Handa, associate professor, Department of Public Policy, and director of Graduate Studies
• Kathie Mullan Harris,
  James Haar Professor, Department of Sociology
• Jim Johnson, William Rand Kenan Jr. Distinguished Professor of Entrepreneurship, Kenan-Flagler Business School and director, Urban Investment Strategies Center, Frank Hawkins Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise
• Arne Kalleberg, Kenan Distinguished Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology
• Sherryl Kleinman, professor, Department of Sociology, and director, Social and Economic Justice Minor
• Charles Kurzman, professor, Department of Sociology
• Jim LeLoudis, professor, Department of History; associate dean for the honors program; and director, James M. Johnston Center for Undergraduate Excellence
• Stephen W. Lich-Tyler
  lecturer, Department of Economics
• Ted Mouw, associate professor, Department of Sociology
• Gary M. Nelson, professor, School of Social Work, and associate director, Program Development and Training Initiatives, Jordan Institute for Families
• Francois Nielsen, professor, Department of Sociology
• Dennis Orthner, professor, School of Social Work and associate director for Policy Development and Analysis, Jordan Institute for Families
• Susan L. Parish, assistant professor, School of Social Work 
• Krista Perreira, associate professor, Department of Public Policy
• Andrew Perrin, associate professor and associate chair, Department of Sociology
• Roberto Quercia, professor, Department of City and Regional Planning, and director, Center for Community Capital
• Kelly B. Reath, clinical associate professor and director, Asheville Part-Time Program
• Bill Rohe,
  Boshamer Professor, Department of City and Regional Planning
  Director, Center for Urban and Regional Studies
• Eunice Sahle, assistant professor, Department of African and Afro-American Studies and the Curriculum in International Studies
• Pam Silberman, research associate professor, Health Policy and Administration, School of Public Health and
  President, North Carolina Institute of Medicine
• Karla Slocum, assistant professor, Department of African and Afro-American Studies
• Sandy Smith-Nonini,
  adjunct assistant professor, Department of Anthropology
• Joel J. Schwartz, adjunct professor, Department of Public Policy, and professor emeritus, Department of Political Science University Professor of Distinguished Teaching
• Lorraine Taylor, assistant professor, Department of Psychology
• Karolyn D. Tyson, associate professor, Department of Sociology
• Lynne Vernon-Feagans, William C. Friday Distinguished Professor of Early Childhood, Families and Literacy and professor of psychology, School of Education
• Deborah Weissman, Reef C. Ivey II Distinguished Professor of Law
• Jesse White, adjunct professor, School of Government
  Director, UNC Office of Economic and Business Development