Kristen Shook Slack Named Director of School of Social Work at the University of Wisconsin

Kristen Shook Slack was appointed director of the School of Social Work at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. She has served a s associate director of the school for the past two years.

Dr. Slack is also co-director of the Center on Child Welfare Policy and Practice and associate director of the Policy Institute for Family Impact Seminars. Her research focuses on understanding the role of poverty and economic hardship in the etiology of child maltreatment and neglect.

Dr. Slack is a graduate of the University of Michigan. She earned a master of social work degree and a Ph.D. in social welfare from the University of Chicago.