Skye Allmang
Skye Allmang is a Post-Doctoral Associate at Rutgers School of Social Work. Her research focuses on understanding the underlying causes and consequences of inequality in access to employment, particularly among emerging adults. She holds a Master of Public Policy from Brandeis University, and a Master of Social Welfare and a PhD in Social Welfare from the University of California, Los Angeles.
She is currently working with Glenda Gracia-Rivera at CWW to develop a series of issue briefs that offer an analysis on the state of equity in Career and Technical Education (CTE) programs in New Jersey. The briefs assess student enrollment and alignment with regional workforce needs and economic priorities. The project is funded by the Career Equity Resource Center (CERC) at the New Jersey Department of Education's Office of Career Readiness.
Mary Borrowman
Mary Borrowman is an economist at the International Center for Research on Women and the technical lead for a new global coalition on women’s economic empowerment. In this role, she serves as a technical adviser for coalition partners and a leader in building, synthesizing and amplifying the global evidence base on women’s economic empowerment. She was also recently honored as a National Security & Foreign Policy LGBTQIA+ 2021 Out Leader.
Mary’s work, research and publications have explored a wide range of issues related to economic inequality throughout the world from an intersectional feminist lens, particularly focusing on development and trade. This has included work for the Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis at the New School on elderly poverty, The Brooks World Poverty Institute: Capturing the Gains Project on trade policy issues related to distribution within global value chains, and the Courant Research Centre at the University of Göttingen on drivers of gendered occupational and sectoral segregation in developing countries.
Mary holds a Ph.D. from the New School in Economics, a M.S. from the University of Utah in Economics, and a B.S. from the University of Utah in both Gender Studies and Economics.
In collaboration with Yana Rodgers, Mary has recently been working as a consultant for CWW to update and instruct a course for the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) on Gender and Inclusive and Sustainable Industrial Development. Participants for the course were from five countries in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) region, with representation from both the public and private sector, as well as academia. Course content was ASEAN specific where possible, and provided participants with a background in general concepts, an overview of trends and important data and indicators, and practical tools for implementing gender mainstreaming, inclusion and sustainability within policy and practice.
Becky Logue-Conroy
Becky Logue-Conroy is a Doctoral Candidate at the School of Social Work at Rutgers. She received her MSW from Smith College School for Social Work. Her dissertation focuses on the factors that influence fathers to take leave at the birth of a child. Her research interests include Family Leave Policy, Social Welfare Policy, Impact of Policy on Families, Poverty, and Inequality. She has participated in a number of research projects at Rutgers. Her most recent work has been with the Center for Women & Work examining the uptake of paid family leave in New Jersey. Using qualitative interviews, this study seeks to inform how advocates, workers, employers, funders, and policymakers view barriers to uptake and areas to improve uptake. Prior to entering the field of Social Work, Becky worked in Higher Education Administration as an Assistant Director of Alumni Relations at Williams College in Massachusetts.
So Ri Park
So Ri Park is a doctoral candidate at the School of Management and Labor Relations (SMLR). So Ri has a bachelor's degree in psychology and has two master's degrees in industrial and organizational psychology and labor studies and employment relations. Prior to joining Rutgers, So Ri worked in commodity trading at an energy company.
Currently, So Ri works on a telework-disability project that is led by Yana Rodgers and other SMLR faculty members. They examine how telework that became a common practice during the pandemic affects employees’ job satisfaction, especially those with disabilities. They plan to investigate differential effects of telework across various demographics such as women who are expected to bear more burden of unpaid care work. So Ri has also contributed to CWW policy briefs and continues to provide quantitative analysis for other projects.
