Columbia University School of Social Work Adjunct Faculty

Jane F. Golden, Adjunct Associate Professor Jane Golden has been teaching the two semester Legal Foundations for Social Workers course at the Columbia University School of Social Work (CUSSW) since the Fall of 1999. Ms. Golden received a Juris Doctor (JD) from the Columbia University School of Law in 1988. She practiced law for four years as a litigation associate at the law Firm of Rogers & Wells. In 1992 Ms. Golden left the full time practice of law to pursue her MS degree at Columbia University. During this time she continued to practice law part-time at the firm of Howard, Darby & Levine. After receiving an MS from CUSSW in 1994, she launched the C-PLAN (Child Planning and Advocacy Now) child welfare advocacy project in the office of the New York City Public Advocate. For four years Ms. Golden directed the C-PLAN project, which was acknowledged as a semifinalist in the Ford Foundation’s Innovations in American Government program. In April 1999, Ms. Golden joined The Children’s Aid Society, the oldest child welfare agency in the country, as House Counsel and Director of Program Development.