Biographies of Speakers Working For Change: A Conversation on Workplace Flexibility Research, Business Practice and Public Policy Georgetown Law Kathleen Christensen, Ph.D., Founder Post, USA Today, Chicago Tribune, and Director, Workplace, Work Force and Philadelphia Inquirer and Atlanta Working Families Program at the Alfred Constitution. P. Sloan Foundation Kathleen E. Christensen founded and Dr. Christensen is a member of the directs the Program on The Workplace, Conference Board’s Work-Life Leadership Work Force and Working Families at the Council and has served on a number of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Under her national work-life advisory boards. She leadership, the Workplace, Work Force and received her doctorate from the Working Families program has played a vital Pennsylvania State University, where she role in developing work-family scholarship was a Danforth Fellow, as well as a National and in supporting effective workplaces that Endowment for the Humanities Fellow. She meet the needs of working parents and older has also been a Mellon Fellow and workers. To that end, in 2003, the Rockefeller Fellow. In 2004, she was Foundation launched the National Initiative awarded the Work-Life Legacy Award by the on Workplace Flexibility, a collaborative Families and Work Institute for her role in effort designed to make workplace flexibility founding the field of work-life. a standard of the American workplace Prior to joining the Alfred P. Sloan Chai Feldblum, Professor of Law, Foundation, Dr. Christensen was a Georgetown Law; Co-Director, Workplace Professor of Psychology at the Graduate Flexibility 2010 School and University Center of City Chai R. Feldblum graduated from Harvard University of New York and before that Law School and clerked for Judge Frank M. served as a policy analyst at the Urban Coffin on the First Circuit Court of Appeals Institute in Washington, D.C. and for Justice Harry A. Blackmun on the U.S. Supreme Court. While serving as a Dr. Christensen has published extensively legislative counsel with the American Civil on the changing nature of work and its Liberties Union, Feldblum was one of the relationship to the family. Her books include lead lawyers crafting and negotiating the CONTINGENT WORK: AMERICAN EMPLOYMENT Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990. RELATIONS IN TRANSITION (Cornell University Press, 1998); TURBULENCE IN THE AMERICAN Professor Feldblum is a nationally known WORKPLACE (Oxford University Press, scholar and advocate on disability rights, 1991); Women AND HOME-BASED WORK: THE lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender UNSPOKEN CONTRACT (Henry Holt, 1988) rights, and social welfare policy. She is also and THE NEW ERA OF HOME-BASED WORK: a leading speaker on legislative and DIRECTIONS AND POLICIES (Westview Press, regulatory structures. As Director of the 1988). Her editorials have appeared on the Federal Legislation Clinic, Professor national Op Ed pages of the Washington Feldblum has represented (among other groups) Catholic Charities USA, the Bazelon Katie Corrigan is a graduate of the Center for Mental Health Law, the Health University of Pennsylvania and received her Privacy Project, the Family Violence law degree from Georgetown University Law Prevention Center, and the Epilepsy Center. Foundation of America. In 2003, Professor Feldblum launched and Workplace Structure and its Impact on now co-directs Workplace Flexibility 2010. Hourly Workers and their Families This initiative, funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, is engaged in a multi-year effort Jennifer Swanberg, Ph.D., Founder and of research, outreach and consensus- Executive Director, University of building designed to advance a national Kentucky Institute for Workplace policy on workplace flexibility for the United Innovation (iWin), Associate Professor, States. The structure of Workplace College of Social Work, University of Flexibility 2010 is based on Professor Kentucky Feldblum’s theory of advocacy, set forth in Jennifer E. Swanberg, Ph.D., is the The Art of Legislative Lawyering and the Six executive director and founder of the Circles Theory of Advocacy, 34 McGeorge Institute for Workplace Innovation (iWin) at Law Review 785 (2003). the University of Kentucky, an associate professor in the UK College of Social Work with joint appointments in the Colleges of Welcoming Remarks Medicine and Public Health. Dr. Swanberg is also a faculty affiliate at UK’s Center on Katie Corrigan, Co-Director, Workplace Poverty Research and the Center for the Flexibility 2010; Adjunct Professor of Advancement of Women’s Health, and a Law, Georgetown Law Research Fellow of the Boston College Katie Corrigan is the Co-Director of Work & Family Roundtable. Workplace Flexibility 2010 where she, along with Chai Feldblum, is responsible for Dr. Swanberg’s research has focused on overseeing the strategy, legislative quality workplaces as a business and work- lawyering, policy research, media, and life effectiveness strategy, access to constituent outreach components of the workplace flexibility among under- effort. Corrigan began working with represented working populations, and the Workplace Flexibility 2010 as Assistant use of human capital and quality Director of the Georgetown University Law employment as a form of economic Center's Federal Legislation Clinic. As development. Dr. Swanberg is the co- Assistant Director of the Clinic, Corrigan principal investigator of a Ford Foundation- supervised 2 lawyers and 12 law students funded study examining the effects of quality each semester to provide quality legislative work environments on business outcomes lawyering services to the Clinic's non-profit and employee health among hourly workers. clients. Dr. Swanberg is a graduate of the University Prior to working in the Clinic, Corrigan was a of New Hampshire. She received her Ph.D. legislative counsel at the American Civil in Social Policy from the Heller School of Liberties Union, where she was responsible Social Policy and Public Management for defending privacy and due process in the Brandeis University context of the federal government's response to terrorism. Before joining the ACLU, Corrigan worked as counsel on Maureen Perry-Jenkins, Ph.D., Associate disability policy for Senator Tom Harkin on Professor of Psychology at the the Senate Health, Education, Labor and University of Massachusetts Amherst Pensions Committee and as a Teaching Maureen Perry-Jenkins is an Associate Fellow at Georgetown's Federal Legislation Professor of Psychology at the University of Clinic. Massachusetts Amherst and past director of the Center for the Family at UMass. Her main research interests are in the area of 2 work and family and her most recent Susan Hattan, Senior Consultant, research focuses on working-class families National Association of Independent and the transition to parenthood for dual- Colleges and Universities (NAICU) earner families, on which she has published Susan Hattan joined the NAICU staff in July widely. Maureen and her colleagues 2003. She is responsible for policy recently completed a five-year, longitudinal development and oversight on accountability study funded by the National Institute of matters, including consumer information and Mental Health: The Work and Family reporting requirements, accreditation, Transitions Project. This study examined student privacy, and institutional eligibility the transition to parenthood and transition and certification. back to paid employment for working-class couples. She was recently awarded a Most recently, before joining NAICU in a full- second grant from NIMH to follow-up on this time capacity, Hattan served as a consultant fascinating study and to replicate the study to the association in preparation for with three new samples: 1) African- reauthorization of the Higher Education Act. American, two-parent families, 2) African- She had retired from the federal government American, single-mother families, and 3) in 2001 after a 27-year career in the U.S. European-American single-mother families. Senate, where she served on the staff of Sen. Nancy Kassebaum (R-Kan.) for 18 Dr. Perry-Jenkins received her doctorate in years. Hattan was staff director of the Labor Human Development and Family Studies and Human Resources Committee during from Pennsylvania State University. Kassebaum's tenure as chair, and when Kassebaum retired in 1997, Hattan became deputy staff director for Sen. Jim Jeffords (I- Arlene A. Johnson, Senior Advisor and VT.). She also worked for Sen. Bob Dole of Former Vice President of WFD Kansas from 1973 to 1977. Consulting Arlene Johnson has over 25 years of Hattan is a graduate of Washburn University experience working with business (Topeka, Kan.), and holds a master's degree organizations to identify and address from American University. workforce and workplace issues and assist in the development of strategies for effective change. Prior to joining WFD, she held Peter Reinecke, Principal, Reinecke positions as Vice President of Families and Strategic Consulting Work Institute, Director of Workforce Peter Reinecke is principal of Reinecke Research for the Conference Board, and Strategic Solutions, Inc., providing strategic Vice President of Catalyst. In these roles, consulting services to a range of clients, she has worked with dozens of companies including Workplace Flexibility 2010. in the U.S. and around the world and has chronicled leading edge workplace issues During a 20 year career on Capitol Hill, he over the past two decades. Arlene has played a staff role