Rowena Fong, EdD, MSW is the Ruby Lee Piester Centennial Professor at the University of Texas at Austin, School of Social Work. A Fellow of SSWR and AASWSW, she is the Treasurer of AASWSW, co-principal investigator of a $23M grant for the National Quality Improvement Center for Adoption and Guardianship Support and Preservation, and has authored over 100 publications, including 10 books.
James Lubben, PhD/DSW, MPH, MSW, is the Louise McMahon Ahearn Professor of Social Work at Boston College and Professor Emeritus at UCLA. He has edited 5 books and authored over 100 articles and chapters. He has been principal investigator of over $35M of extramural grants. He is a Fellow in the AASWSW and the Gerontological Society of America.
Richard P. Barth, PhD, MSW is Dean of the University of Maryland School of Social Work and Past-President of AASWSW. He has written more than 10 books and 200 articles and chapters about children's services. He has twice served as a Fulbright Scholar, received a Lifetime Achievement Award from SSWR, and is a Fellow of APA, SSWR.