Edwina Dorch
Visiting Associate Professor
Edwina is an Associate-Level Professor who comes to the Bush School from the University at Albany, New York where she had appointments with both, Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy and the School of Social Welfare. These appointments involved teaching and performing cost-benefit analysis and policy implementation analysis for two New York State Offices as well as for New York City's Public Welfare Office (HRA). Academically, she publishes in both Public Administration and Social Work journals.
Edwina also served as Mentoring and Training Director for the University at Albany's, Center for the Elimination of Minority Health Disparities, The Center is supported by a grant from the National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities through their EXPORT program. EXPORT stands for Excellence in Partnerships for Community Outreach, Research and Training. Her duties included funding oversight and reporting responsibilities for a number of diabetes and AIDS research projects.
Prior to U-Albany, Edwina was an administrative-level researcher for the County of Los Angeles, Department of Children and Family Services. There she performed a variety of research functions including evaluating county-contracted non-profit family-preservation and family support agencies.
Edwina continues her cost-benefit analysis of various types of state and county child welfare training programs and her GIS analysis of the non-profit service availability and accessibility in collaboration with the Texas Department of Human Services.
Edwina teaches social welfare, diversity scoreboarding, research methods and program evaluation courses. Her first Bush School capstone assessed low income housing builders in Mississippi and Louisiana (post Hurricanes Katrina, Wilma and Rita) for the Congressional Research Service, Government and Finance Division. This year, her capstone assesses the funding of nonprofit agencies by the City of College Station.
Edwina holds a Ph.D. in Social Psychology but also holds training certificates from Cornell University, the National Cultural Competency Institute, the National Coalition Building Institute, the Anti-Defamation League' and Boston College's, Institute for the Study and Promotion of Race and Culture. This training allows her to be useful implementing and evaluating public, private and non-profit agency diversity initiatives. Edwina is also a member of the Race Matters Consortium which performs research to determine why there are a disproportionate number of Native American, Hispanic and Black children in child welfare, juvenile justice and special education.
