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Prior Members of the NASW Foundation Board of DirectorsNASW Foundation Board 2009-2010Elizabeth J. Clark, PhD, ACSW, MPH Elizabeth J. Clark, PhD, ACSW, MPH
Elizabeth J. Clark is NASW's ninth executive director. Dr. Clark was the executive director of the 12,000-member New York State Chapter for two years before assuming the national post in June 2001. Dr. Clark holds a BASW, an MSW and an MPH in health services administration from the University of Pittsburgh and a master's degree in sociology and a Ph.D. in medical sociology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She also holds ACSW certification from NASW's Academy of Certified Social Workers. Her career has included working as executive vice president of the nonprofit National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship; chief operating officer of a national grass-roots organizing campaign to raise public awareness about the need for increased funding for cancer research; director of the Albany Medical Center Hospital's Department of Social Work and then its Division of Diagnostic and Therapeutic Services; and director of the Department of Counseling and Support Services and the Cancer Care Program at St. Luke's Hospital in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. Dr. Clark has held academic administrative and teaching posts at numerous universities and has been involved in 18 grant-funded research projects, often as grant author or principal investigator. Dr. Clark is the author, co-author or editor of more than 70 publications. Her honors include numerous awards for leadership and for outstanding public and community service. She has been named Social Worker of the Year by units of the New York State and Pennsylvania NASW chapters. Board Members James J. Kelly, PhD, ACSW
James J. Kelly, PhD, ACSW, is Provost and Executive Vice President, Menlo College in Atherton, California. He has 38 publications and 109 presentations and has garnered $35 million in grants, contracts, endowments, and gifts, primarily through community collaborations in the child welfare and aging areas. Former consultant to the United Nations, he is a strong advocate for social justice. He received his PhD from Brandeis University and his MSSW from the University of Tennessee. He was president, NASW California Chapter, and active in Tennessee, Massachusetts, and Hawaii Chapters. He is immediate past-president, California Institute of Mental Health; board member, National Network for Social Work Managers; and founding editorial board member, Journal of Women and Aging. He was named 1987 National Social Worker of the Year for work in developing services for people with AIDS.
Barbara Conniff currently serves as the Chief Executive Officer of Milestone Centers, Inc. (formerly Allegheny East MH/MR Center Inc.), a private, non-profit community based agency providing a continuum of treatment and support services to individuals with mental illness and developmental disabilities and their families. Barb is a life long resident of Allegheny County. She received a Bachelor’s Degree from Carlow College in Psychology and a Master’s Degree from the University of Pittsburgh in Social Work. Barb is a member of the National Academy of Certified Social Workers. Barb’s 39 year professional career has included a variety of local health care, public health and behavioral health care positions. Barb is a graduate of the First Class of the Allegheny County, United Way and Carnegie Mellon University sponsored Non-Profit Executive Training Program.
Vicki Hansen has served as the Executive Director of the Texas Chapter of the National Association of Social Workers since 1998. Prior to this, she was the Program Director of the Texas Chapter for four years. She received her undergraduate degree from Ohio State University and her MSW from Florida International University where she worked for the School of Social Work's Institute for Children and Families at Risk. Ms. Hansen was in direct practice for ten years in Cleveland, Ohio providing services to families with children with developmental disabilities. She has participated in federal and foundation grants involving schools and service integration and developed parent participation materials that are in use in the Broward County Public School System in Florida. She was an organizer of a national symposium on the re-professionalization of public child welfare and was a contributing co-editor of a book of proceedings. Ms. Hansen was the Project Director of a three-year grant from the Texas Cancer Council on developing cancer prevention materials for low-income, minority populations. Her articles and columns have been in a number of publications and she has presented at both the state and national level. In addition, Ms. Hansen has served as an ombudsperson for the Texas Department of Health Strategic Health Partnership, as a participant for the TDH Bioterrorism Preparedness and Response Plan, and was a member of the Texas Social Work Licensing Revision Task Force. She also served as the Project Director for a U.S. Dept. of Justice funded three-year project, Crime Victims: A Social Work Response, and currently sits on the UT Austin School of Social Work advisory committee for the Hartford Project which is designed to increase gerontological programs in the School of Social Work Curriculum and as an advisory member of the Invisible Children's Project Coalition of the Mental Health Association. Carla B. Howery (1950 - 2009)
Carla B. Howery served on the professional staff of the American Sociological Association for twenty years. She retired in spring 2007 as Deputy Executive Officer and Director of the Academic and Professional Affairs Program. She attended St. Olaf College and the University of Minnesota and went on to become a pillar in the discipline and an important node in networks connecting sociology to other organizations and disciplines. She is perhaps best known for her contributions to teaching and was on the faculty at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee before joining ASA. She was instrumental in developing the ASA’s Teaching Resources Program, which is responsible for creating Teaching Resource Guides with sample syllabi for classes ranging from the Sociology of Gender to Ethno-violence and Hate Crimes. She was principal investigator for two major projects at ASA directed at department change: MOST (Minority Opportunities through School Transformation) to enhance diversity and excellence, and IDA (Integrating Data Analysis) designed to help introduce quantitative literacy in lower division sociology courses. Each centered on curricular transformation and department climate and is pertinent to joint sociology and social work programs as well as the social work students who take sociology courses. Carla's father was a professor and dean of social work; she says it is a pleasure for her to formally connect with NASW.
Amber B. Jones, M.Ed., is a health policy, planning and management consultant based in Loudonville, New York. Her clients include the Center to Advance Palliative Care housed at the Mt. Sinai School of Medicine, hospitals, health systems, palliative care partnerships, hospice programs and state hospice associations. She received her BA in Psychology from Hartwick College, and her M.Ed. in Counseling from Springfield College. She pursued Doctoral Studies in Business Administration at George Washington University. From 1993 to 2000, she served as President and Chief Executive Officer of the Hospice and Palliative Care Association of NY State in Albany, NY. She was Vice President for Academic Planning and Administration at the Albany Medical Center, NY, from 1986 to 1993, Vice President for Planning at Albany Medical College from 1981 to 1986, and held a number of management positions at the Association of American Medical Colleges in Washington, DC from 1972 to 1981. She has served on the Advisory Board of the Palliative Care Project - Friends and Relatives of Institutionalized Aging; the Attorney General's Commission on Quality of Care at the End of Life; and the Board of Directors, Executive Committee, of VNSNY Hospice Care.
Dr. Weinberg is Director of the Chronic Disease Prevention and Control Research Center and Professor of Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine. He has directed the Center since its inception in 1987 as the Center for Cancer Control Research. He began his career at Baylor in 1975 as Director of the Education Division of the DeBakey Heart Center. Dr. Weinberg's efforts have been supported by more than $40 million of external funding from NIH, CDC, HRSA, ACS, and numerous private foundations. Dr. Weinberg has published over 100 papers in well-respected journals such as JAMA, Cancer, and Preventive Medicine, served on several editorial boards and for seven years served as the Associate Editor for Health Values (now the American Journal of Health Behavior) before being named Editor in Chief in 1988. In addition to many state, national, and international presentations, he has served on numerous grant review panels at NIH as well as state, national and international committees of professional and medical associations including the WHO and the United Nations. Dr. Weinberg is co-founding Chair of the Intercultural Cancer Council. This national consortium was an outgrowth of the Biennial Symposia on Minorities, the Medically Underserved & Cancer, which Dr. Weinberg has co-directed since 1991. Dr. Weinberg has been honored with numerous awards for his dedicated efforts in improving the quality of life for individuals and communities alike. Dr. Weinberg has participated in various national efforts such as the National Legislative Advisory Committee appointed by Senator Feinstein to review the national cancer act and currently serves on the Board of C-Change: Collaborating to Conquer Cancer (formerly the National Dialogue on Cancer).
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