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Mizrahi, Terry

Terry Mizrahi, Ph.D., MSW was a faculty member at the Silberman School of Social Work at Hunter College of the City University of New York for 39 years (1980-2019). She chaired the Community Organization, Planning and Development practice method for several years and created with colleagues a multi-disciplinary undergraduate Community Organizing Minor in Hunter College https://sssw.hunter.cuny.edu/programs/undergraduate-minor-in-community- organizing/ [Add as a hyperlink]. She taught community organizing, social policy and health policy. For ten years in the 1990s, she chaired Hunter College’s Institutional Review Board for the Protection of Human Subjects. In 1982, she and others created the Education Center for Community Organizing (ECCO) through 2006 [ link to ECCO archive] provide support and resources to people working for progressive social change. She was elected President of the National Association of Social Workers from 2000-2003 and was one of the founders of ACOSA (the Association of Community Organization and Social Action (formerly Social Administration) and its Journal of Community Practice (1993). She received her BA is sociology from NYU, MSW from Columbia University and PhD. in Sociology from the University of Virginia.