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My current research focuses on the relationship between family change, growing family complexity and globalization in Western and non-Western contexts, which I discussed at TEDxWilmington. Primarily I concentrate on how economic transformations are impacting gender roles and family change, how concepts of race, ethnicity and gender are changing through globalizing influences, and what kind of policies can assist and strengthen low income families. The April 2014 edition of UDMessenger featured an article exploring my recent work. I also have an interest in intergenerational relationships and workforce development for the 21st century. Over the last four years I have been invited to participate in a series of United Nations conferences where I have presented on these issues at expert group meetings (EGM) in various countries around the world. See for instance the EGM on Assessing family policies and the 2014 North American EGM which convened during the Twentieth Anniversary of the International Year of the Family. My involvement with the UN is examined in a February 2014 UDaily article and my presentation at the 2014 United Nations conference in Qatar is highlighted in another UDaily article. In June 2014, I was also invited to participate in the White House Summit on Working Families. In January 2015, I was awarded NCFR’s prestigious fellow designation, covered by this UDaily article. In September 2015, I wrote an editorial piece for Delaware’s News Journal on the transformation of American families and the stagnation of social policies.