Carol Camp Yeakey, PhD, is the Marshall S. Snow Professor of Arts & Sciences. She is a professor of education, urban studies, African and African American studies, American culture studies and global studies, as well as founding director of the Center on Urban Research & Public Policy and the Interdisciplinary Program in Urban Studies. Her primary area of research is social welfare policy as it pertains to marginalized children, young adults and families and the neighborhood contexts in which they live.