The NPC is led by its Executive Committee, a multi-disciplinary team of faculty members at the University of Michigan. These researchers help conceptualize and organize research activities, conferences, and other events; participate in the NPC’s mentoring and dissemination activities; and collaborate on large, coordinated research projects.

Executive Committee Members

Mary Corcoran, Professor of Political Science and Women's Studies, College of Literature, Sciences and the Arts; Professor of Public Policy, Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy

Sandra K. Danziger, Professor, School of Social Work; Research Professor, Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy; Director, Michigan Program on Poverty and Social Welfare Policy

Sheldon Danziger, Director; Henry J. Meyer Distinguished University Professor of Public Policy, Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy; Director, Ford Foundation Program on Poverty and Public Policy; Research Professor, ISR/Population Studies Center

Reynolds Farley, Otis Dudley Duncan Collegiate Professor of Sociology; Research Professor, ISR/Population Studies

David Harding, Associate Professor, Population Studies Center, ISR; Associate Professor, Department of Sociology and Ford School of Public Policy

James House, Angus Campbell Collegiate Professor of Sociology and Survey Research, ISR/Survey Research Center

Brian Jacob, Walter H. Annenberg Professor of Education Policy and Professor of Public Policy, Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy

Paula M. Lantz, S.J. Axelrod Collegiate Professor and Chair, Department of Health Management and Policy, University of Michigan; Director, RWJ Scholars in Health Policy Research Program; Research Professor, Institute for Social Research

Laura Lein, Dean and Collegiate Professor of Social Work, School of Social Work

Ann Lin, Associate Professor of Political Science, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts; Associate Professor of Public Policy, Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy

Shawn Marie Pelak, Program Manager, National Poverty Center

Robert F. Schoeni, Research Professor, Institute for Social Research; Professor, Department of Economics and Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy; Associate Director, Panel Study of Income Dynamics

Pamela J. Smock, Director and Research Professor, Population Studies Center, Institute for Social Research; Professor, Department of Sociology and Women's Studies

Alford Young, Jr., Arthur F. Thurnau Professor and Associate Professor, Department of Sociology and Center for Afro-American and African Studies