Titles

• Senior Global Futures Scholar, Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory
• Associate Professor, School of Social Work, Watts College of Public Service and Community Solutions

Biography

David Androff, MSW, PhD is an Associate Professor in the School of Social Work at Arizona State University where he chairs the Policy, Administration, and Community Program and teaches classes in community practice, social policy, and global social welfare. He earned his Masters and PhD in Social Welfare from the University of California, Berkeley. Dr. Androff's interests center on building strong and sustainable communities through promoting human rights. His scholarship explores the connections between human rights and social work and has investigated Truth and Reconciliation Commissions, immigration policy, human trafficking. and refugee empowerment.

Dr. Androff is the author of Practicing Rights: Human Rights-based Approaches to Social Work Practice (2015, Routledge Press). Dr. Androff's scholarship was recognized with the 2011 Emerging Scholar Award from the Association of Community Organization and Social Administration. He is a founding member of the Council on Social Work Education's Committee on Human Rights.

Education

• PhD, Social Welfare, University of California-Berkeley, 2008
• MSW, Community Mental Health, University of California-Berkeley, 2003
• BA (with honors), Sociology, University of Virginia, 2001

Expertise

• Zero Hunger
• policy and governance
• poverty
• refugee studies
• resilience
• sustainable development
• urban development
• urban sustainability
• Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
• participatory research methods
• No Poverty
• Good Health and Well-Being
• Quality Education
• Gender Equality
• Decent Work and Economic Growth
• Reduced Inequalities
• Climate Action
• Partnerships for the Goals
• environmental justice
• civil society
• communities
• community development
• cultural studies
• ecological literacy
• economic development
• educational development
• entrepreneurship
• citizen actions
• foreign affairs
• global health
• globalization
• human rights
• human values
• international development
• international relations