Biographical Statement
Scott W. Allard is the Daniel J. Evans Endowed Professor of Social Policy and Associate Dean for Research and Engagement at the Evans School of Public Policy and Governance at the University of Washington. He has research expertise in issues of poverty, inequality, and social welfare policy in the United States. Allard is author of Out of Reach: Place, Poverty, and the New American Welfare State (2009, Yale University Press), which examines the spatial and organizational challenges confronting local safety net providers. His most recent book, Places in Need: The Changing Geography of Poverty in America (2017, Russell Sage Foundation Press), focuses on the changing geography of poverty within metropolitan America and which aspects of the contemporary safety net respond well to these changes. He served as managing editor at the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management (JPAM) from 2017 to 2020, co-director of the Family Self-Sufficiency Data Center at the University of Chicago from 2013 to 2019, and a nonresidential senior fellow at the Brookings Institution Metropolitan Policy Program from 2010 to 2020.
