Mimi Abramovitz, the Bertha Capen Reynolds Professor of Social Policy at Silberman School of Social Work, Hunter College, and the CUNY Graduate Center writes about the US welfare state, poverty, inequality, activism, and the impact of neoliberalism on human service organizations. Author of Regulating the Lives: Social Welfare Policy From Colonial Time to the Present (Routledge, 3rd. ed. 2018), she is currently writing a book entitled Gender Obligations: The History of Black and White Low-Income Women’ Activism Since 1900.