You are invited to attend a Research Seminar March 17, 2022, 12:15 pm -1:45 pm
Title: No Calm Before the Storm: Margin Mothers Before and After COVID-19
Presenter: Marci Ybarra, PhD
Associate Professor, Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice, University of Chicago
Marci A. Ybarra is an Associate Professor at the University of Chicago, Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice. Her research interests include poverty and inequality, social service delivery, work support, and family well-being. Professor Ybarra conducts quantitative analysis of administrative and longitudinal survey data in addition to qualitative analysis through participant-observation and in- depth interviewing at social service agencies.
She currently investigates three different areas of social policy and how these affect economically disadvantaged families by impacting both their work and family life: welfare reform policies, childcare, and social insurance provisions. Professor Ybarra's research primarily focuses on single low-income mother families, immigrant families, and other historically marginalized groups.
The Self-Sufficiency Research Clearinghouse named Professor Ybarra an Emerging Scholar in 2015. She is also a faculty affiliate at the University of Chicago’s Center for Human Potential and Public Policy and Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture, the University of Notre Dame Lab for Economic Opportunities, and is a faculty affiliate at the Institute for Research on Poverty, University of Wisconsin.
Professor Ybarra earned her BSW and MSW with a concentration in community practice from Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan. She holds a Ph.D. in Social Work from the University of Wisconsin – Madison.
Meeting ID: 977 5432 5717; Passcode: 15004