• Faculty

Stephen Pimpare

Titles

• Professor of Public Policy
• Director, Master of Public Policy Program

Degrees

• PhD, Political Science (Public Policy), City University of New York Graduate Center, 2002
• BS, Community and Human Services (Urban Studies and Nonprofit Management), State University of New York – Empire State College, 1998

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Biography

Stephen Pimpare is Professor of Public Policy and Director of the Master of Public Policy program at Vermont Law and Graduate School. He has previously taught at Columbia University, NYU, Simmons University, UNH, and the City University of New York. His second book, A People’s History of Poverty in America, received the Michael Harrington Award from the American Political Science Association “for demonstrating how scholarship can be used in the struggle for a better world.” His most recent book is Politics for Social Workers: A Practical Guide to Effecting Change, which received the 2023 Best Book Award from the Society for Social Work and Research.

Dr. Pimpare previously served as a senior-level administrator of not-for-profit organizations addressing issues of poverty, hunger, and homelessness throughout New York City. One of the programs he helped to create, One City Café, New York’s first non-profit restaurant, was hailed by the New York Times as “the reinvention of the soup kitchen” and subsequently received the Victory Against Hunger Award from the U.S. Congressional Hunger Center.

Pimpare is host of the New Books Network’s Public Policy Channel, a Consulting Editor for the journal Social Work, and a member of the Vermont chapter of the National Association of Social Workers’ Social and Legislative Action Committee.

Curriculum Vitae

 

Expertise

• Homelessness
• Poverty
• Public Policy
• US National Politics