Gwendolyn Mink

Gwendolyn Mink has been teaching U.S. equality law, poverty policy, gender issues, and American politics for twenty nine years. She was on the faculty of the University of California-Santa Cruz from 1980-2001 and at Smith College from 2001 to 2009. Mink is co-editor of the two-volume Poverty in the United States: An Encyclopedia of History, Politics and Policy and author of Welfare's End. She is now an independent scholar based in Washington, DC.