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Dr. Kathryn Conroy received her BA from Fordham University, her MSW from Hunter College School of Social Work, and her DSW from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.
For years she worked in direct service and administrative positions in social services. First at Good Shepherd Services, a child welfare agency, then as the Deputy Coordinator for Youth Services in the Mayor's Office of the City of New York, then as the Assistant General Director for Research, Policy and Program Development at the Community Service Society, and, since 1990, as the Assistant Dean and Director of Field Education at Columbia University School of Social Work where she also teaches courses in child welfare and work with women who are battered.
Dr. Conroy currently serves on a number of boards, including New Yorkers for Children and Court Appointed Special Advocates, both dealing with children in child welfare and the foster care system. She is an ongoing consultant for Hedge Funds Care which grants monies to organization dealing with child abuse and neglect. She was a founder of the Park Slope Safe Homes Project, one of the first community-based programs to deal with battered women and their children in the country, and of Women's Survival Space, the first battered women's shelter in New York State.
Dr. Conroy is currently Chair of the CSWE Council on Field Education and a member of the CSWE Commission on Education and Curriculum Innovation. She is also an International Scholar with the Academic Fellows Program of the Open Society Institute working in Mongolia.
Last updated December 03, 2007.
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