Kitchen Capitalism: Microenterprise in Low-Income Households

About the Authors

265 About the Authors Margaret Sherrard Sherraden is a Professor of Social Work at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, and Research Professor at the Center for Social Development (CSD) at Washington University in St. Louis. She holds a doctorate in sociology from Washington University (1989), a master’s degree from the School of Social Service Administration at the University of Chicago (1974), and a bachelor’s degree in sociology and Spanish from Beloit College (1972). Her research, publishing, and teaching are in the areas of social and economic development, poverty, immigration and health, and international social welfare policy. Past research includes a Fulbright-funded dissertation study of health and poverty policy in Mexico (1987), research on birth outcomes among Mexican immigrants in Chicago, and community economic development in Missouri . Presently, she is leading an in-depth interview study of participants in a matched savings program of Individual Development Accounts (IDAs), part of large longitudinal national demonstration at CSD (1997–2003), leading research on a tri-national North American youth community service project, and conducting research on a children’s saving account demonstration in St. Louis. She is recipient of the 2001 Teaching Excellence award at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. Cynthia K. Sanders is Assistant Professor of Social Work at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, and Faculty Associate at the Center for Social Development at Washington University in St. Louis. She holds a doctorate in social work from the George Warren Brown School of Social Work at Washington University (2000), a master’s in social work from the University of Utah (1994) and bachelor ’s in science degrees in economics and political science from the University of Utah (1987). Her research interests focus on social policy and poverty, economic development with low-income women, economic security in low-income households, and women’s issues. Her recent research examined the economic outcomes for poor participants of microenterprise assistance programs in the United States and whether or not such programs were having an effect on economic well being when compared to other low-income workers. Her current research explores economic education and planning with low-income women experiencing domestic violence, including evaluation of an IDA program targeted toward battered women. She teaches in the areas of social welfare policy, research methods, and social work generalist practice. Michael Sherraden is Benjamin E. Youngdahl Professor of Social Development and founding director of the Center for Social Development (CSD), George Warren Brown School of Social Work, Washington University in St. Louis. Sherraden was educated at Harvard (AB, 1970) and the University of Michigan (MSW, 1976; PhD, 1979). He has been a Visiting Professor at the National University of Mexico (1987–88), and the National University of Singapore (1992–93), a Distinguished Visiting Professor at Ben Gurion University in Israel (2001), and Zellerbach Visiting Professor at University of California, Berkeley (2003–04). He is a recipient of a Fulbright Research Fellowship (1992–93), the Distinguished Faculty Award from Washington University (1994), the Excellence in Community Development Award from the Neighborhood Reinvestment Training Institutes (2001), and the Flynn Prize for innovation in social policy from the University of Southern California (2001). Sherraden has given a number of major academic lectures, including the O’Leary Lecture, Ohio State University (1996); the Roatch Lecture, Arizona State University (1998); the Sarnat Lecture, University of Southern California (2001); and the Fauri Lecture, University of Michigan (2002). 266 About the Authors ...