Lawrence Aber is a Professor of Applied Psychology and Public Policy at the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development, New York University, where he also serves as Academic Director of its new Institute of Human Development and Social Change.  Dr. Aber earned his Ph.D. from Yale University and an A.B. from Harvard University.  He previously taught at Barnard College, Columbia University and at the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University, where he also directed the National Center for Children in Poverty.  He is an internationally recognized expert in child development and social policy and recently has co-edited Assessing the Impact of September 11th 2001 on Children Youth and Parents: Lessons for Applied Developmental Science (2004, Erlbaum) and Child Development and Social Policy: Knowledge for Action (2007, APA Publications).

Christopher Flinn is a Professor of Economics in the School of Arts and Sciences. Professor Flinn earned his Ph. D at the University of Chicago, M.A. at the University of Michigan, and B.A. at the University of Wisconsin- Madison.  Dr. Flinn is the Associate Editor of the European Economic Review and the Review of Economics of Households. He received an NSF Grant for Family Law and Investment in Children in 2005.

Perry Halkitis is a Professor of Applied Psychology in the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development, New York University, where he also serves as Associate Dean for Research and Doctoral Studies.  Dr. Halkitis earned his Ph. D. from the City University of New York and a B.A. from Columbia University.  Professor Halkitis has served as both a consultant and a committee member on several HIV educational campaigns throughout the state of New York.  He is on the Advisory Board for the Institute of Human Development and Social Change.

Cybele Raver directs NYU's Institute of Human Development and Social Change.  Her research focuses on young children and families facing economic hardship, examining the mechanisms that support children's positive outcomes in the policy contexts of welfare reform and early intervention.  She received her Ph.D. in developmental psychology from Yale University.  Dr. Raver and her research team currently conduct CSRP, a federally-funded RCT intervention.  Before joining Steinhardt, Dr. Raver held faculty positions at the University of Chicago's Harris School of Public Policy Studies and at Cornell University's Department of Human Development.

Marcelo M. Suárez-Orozco was appointed the first Courtney Sale Ross University Professor of Globalization and Education at The Steinhardt School of Culture, Human Development and Education in 2004. He has been Visiting Professor of Psychology at the University of Barcelona (Spain), Visiting Professor of Anthropology at the Catholic University of Leuven (Belgium), and Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford. His basic research is on conceptual and empirical problems in the areas of cultural psychology and psychological anthropology with a focus on the study of immigration and globalization. In 1997 along with Carola Suárez-Orozco he co-founded the Harvard Immigration Projects and began to co-direct the largest study ever funded in the history of the National Science Foundation's Cultural Anthropology division-a study of Asian, Afro-Caribbean, and Latino immigrant youth in American society. Professor Suárez-Orozco was educated at the University of California, Berkeley where he received his A.B. in Psychology and M.A. and Ph.D. in Anthropology.  Dr. Suárez-Orozco was elected to the National Academy of Education in 2004. He is the Co-Director of Immigration Studies at New York University, and serves on the Advisory Board for the Institute of Human Development and Social Change.

Catherine Tamis-LeMonda is a Professor of Applied Psychology at the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development, Dr Tamis- LeMonda earned her Ph.D. and B.A. from New York University, where she is a Principal Investigator involved with Administration for Children Youth and Families (ACYF), National Institute of Child Development (NICHD), Ford Foundation, and Mathematica Policy Research.  Dr. Tamis-LeMonda is on the Advisory Board of the Institute of Human Development and Social Change.

Lawrence Wu is a Professor of Sociology and the Director for the Center for Advanced Social Science Research. Professor Wu earned his Ph.D. in sociology from Stanford and an A.B. in sociology and applied mathematics from Harvard.   He is the Chair of the Population Section of the American Sociological Association and a Series Co-Editor of Analytical Methods for Social Research (Cambridge University Press).  Dr. Wu is the Deputy Director of the Institute of Human Development and Social Change.