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Cindy D. Ness, is a Senior Policy Consultant at SCAA focused on issues of early learning policy and economic security. Among her projects, she staffs the governor’s Early Childhood Advisory Council (ECAC) as a researcher. Additionally, she is working on updating SCCA’s economic security platform aimed at promoting policies that help low-income individuals and families move out of poverty and toward economic self-sufficiency. In addition to her work at SCCA, she is a practicing psychologist in New York City and an adjunct professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice.
Prior to coming to the Schuyler Center, Dr. Ness’ research and publications have spanned the areas of urban violence, mental health, and female militancy and terrorism. Among her committee positions, she was a former member of the Academic Advisory Council of the National Campaign Against Youth Violence (NCAYV) convened by President Clinton (1999-2002) after the Columbine shootings, and was chair of its sub-committee on Structural Factors that Normalize and Institutionalize Violence.
Dr. Ness holds a doctorate from Harvard University in Human Development and Psychology, an MSW from New York University, and she is currently ABD at the University of Pennsylvania in anthropology (expected June 2010). Her major publications include Why Girls Fight: Female Youth Violence in the Inner City (forthcoming, NYU Press, July 2010), an edited compilation, Female Terrorism and Militancy: Agency, Utility and Organization (2008, Taylor and Francis), and a guest-edited volume, Women and Terrorism (Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, 2005).
She can be reached at cness@scaany.org or at 518/463-1896, ext. 126. |
