Jennifer Mosley
Associate Professor, Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice; Faculty Director, UChicago Obama Foundation Scholars Program
Jennifer Mosley is an Associate Professor at the School of Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice and is the Editor of Social Service Review. She researches the role of nonprofit organizations as political actors, specifically the role human service organizations, community-based nonprofits, and philanthropic foundations play in advocating for or implementing policy change that affects underrepresented populations. She is particularly interested in the relationship between advocacy and improved democratic representation and how public administration and nonprofit management trends, particularly within collaborative governance and contracting, affect the public policy roles of nonprofit organizations. At Crown Family School, she teaches courses on policy formulation and implementation, advocacy & social change, and organizational theory. As of July 1, 2021 she is the editor-in-chief of Social Service Review, a premier peer-reviewed academic journal housed at the Crown Family School.
Jennifer Mosley is an Associate Professor at the School of Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice and is the Editor of Social Service Review. She researches the role of nonprofit organizations as political actors, specifically the role human service organizations, community-based nonprofits, and philanthropic foundations play in advocating for or implementing policy change that affects underrepresented populations.
Professor Mosley received her B.A. in psychology from Reed College and her M.S.W. and Ph.D. in social welfare from the University of California, Los Angeles. While at UCLA, she was also a fieldwork supervisor and a senior research associate at the Center for Civil Society. Her practice experience is in the areas of child welfare, homeless services, community-based advocacy, and social justice philanthropy.