Books and Book Chapters:

Injustice, Inc.: How America’s Justice System Commodifies Children and the Poor (University of California Press, 2023) (received national press coverage).

States Diverting Funds from the Poor (Book chapter in Holes in the Safety Net (Cambridge University Press 2019).

The Poverty Industry: The Exploitation of America’s Most Vulnerable Citizens (NYU Press, 2016) (The book resulted in significant press coverage, including in the Atlantic, CSPAN-BookTV, NPR, participation in a Netflix docu-series, and ongoing requests from journalists and policy makers).

Articles and Additional Scholarship:

Child Support Factory: Racist History, Harm, and Unconstitutionality of the Child Support System’s Contractual Operations (forthcoming, William & Mary Journal of Race, Gender, and Social Justice).

The Commodification of Children and the Poor, and the Theory of Stategraft, 2024 Wisc. Law Rev. 529 (2024).

Commodified Inequality: Racialized Harm to Children and Families in the Injustice Enterprise (Family Court Review, 2023).

Juvenile Court Interagency Agreements: Subverting Impartial Justice to Maximize Revenue from Children, 76 NYU Annual Survey of Am. Law 33 (2020).

2017 Keynote Speech: Poverty’s Cost, 21 U.D.C Law Rev. 58 (2019).

Stop Foster Care Agencies from Taking Children’s Resources, 71 Florida Law Review Forum 104 (2019).

Remembering Anti-Essentialism: Relationship Dynamics Study and Resulting Policy Considerations Impacting Low-Income Mothers, Fathers and Children, 35 Law & Inequality 239 (2017).

Medicaid Maximization and Diversion: Illusory State Practices that Convert Federal Aid into General State Revenue, 39 Seattle University Law Review 1225 (2016) (Article is the basis for amicus brief submitted to the U.S. Supreme Court on my behalf, Health and Hospital Corporation v. Talevski, 2022).

Forgotten Fathers, 93 Boston Univ. Law Rev. 897 (2013).

Purpose v. Power: Parens Patriae, Federalism, and Agency Self-Interest, 42 New Mexico Law Rev. 159 (2012).

Don’t Forget Dad: Addressing Women’s Poverty by Rethinking Forced and Outdated Child Support Policies, 20 Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law 775 (2012).

Poverty Revenue: The Subversion of Fiscal Federalism, 52 Ariz. L. Rev. 675 (2010).

Collateral Children: Consequence and Illegality at the Intersection of Foster Care and Child Support, 74 Brooklyn L. Rev. 1333 (2009).

Child Support Harming Children: Subordinating the Best Interests of Children to the Fiscal Interests of the State, 42 Wake Forest L. Rev. 1029 (2007). Draft of the article provided to the New York Times led to front-page story.  See Mother’s Skimp as States Take Child Support, N.Y.Times, Dec. 1, 2007 at A1.  The article is also cited and discussed in an amicus brief to the U.S. Supreme Court.  Turner v. Rogers, Brief of Center for Family Policy and Practice as Amicus Curiae in Support of Petitioner, 2011 WL 141222 (U.S., 2011).

Foster Children Paying for Foster Care, 27 Cardozo L. Rev. 1797 (2006). Draft of the Article provided to the New York Times resulted in a front-page story. See Welfare Agencies Seek Foster Children’s Assets, N.Y.Times, Feb. 17, 2006 at A1.  Article resulted in invitation to testify before Congress, to participate in a congressional briefing, to discuss the Article on Public Radio International, citation in Congressional Research Service Reports, and a request to draft federal legislation introduced as H.R. 1104, the Foster Children Self-Support Act.  Article block-quoted in North Carolina Court of Appeals opinion.  See In re. J.G., 652 S.E.2d 266 (N.C.App. 2007). 

Legal Strategies to Address Child Support Obligations for Nonresident Fathers in the Child Welfare System, ABA Child Law Practice, Vol. 28 No. 5 (2009).

Book Chapter, Advocating for Nonresident Fathers in Child Welfare Court Cases, Legal

Strategies to Address Child Support Obligations, ABA Center on Children and the Law (2009).

Co-author, Breaking the Cycle of Defeat for ‘Deadbroke’ Noncustodial Parents Through Advocacy on Child Support Issues, 37 Clearinghouse Rev. 5 (May-June 2003).

Example Op-Eds and Policy Pieces:

Nursing Home Residents Treated Like Human ATMs, NYU Press Blog (From The Square), May 27, 2020.

The Capital Times, Op-Ed, Scott Walker confiscates millions from disabled and orphaned foster children, September 27, 2018.

Daily Kos, Op-Ed, Governor Rick Scott’s Abuse of Trust: Confiscating Millions from Foster Children, October 23, 2018.

Baltimore Sun, Op-Ed, Maryland needs to stop forcing foster children to pay for their own care, April 2, 2018 (my research and advocacy led to enacted legislation)

Nonprofit Quarterly (NPQ) Op-Ed (reprinted from Transformation), Transform the Poverty Industry, June 29, 2016

Center for American Progress, TalkPoverty (Op-Ed), The Poverty Industry: How Foster Care Agencies Exploit Children in Their Care, June 24, 2016

openDemocracy, Transformation, (Op-Ed), Transforming the Poverty Industry, June 21, 2016.

Baltimore Sun Op-Ed, “Legislation Needed to Protect Foster Kids’ Assets,” March 3, 2015

Baltimore Sun Op-Ed, “How Maryland Robs its Most Vulnerable Children,” Oct. 14, 2013

Baltimore Sun Letter-to-the-editor, “Sorry, But DHR is Robbing Foster Children,” Oct. 23, 2013

Editorial, Turning Medicaid Over to the States Would Undermine Program, The Hill’s Congress Blog, October 26, 2012

Editorial, Romney’s Medicaid Shell Game, Boston Globe, Oct. 12, 2012 (editorial was also discussed in several different papers and blogs including the New York Times and Salon.com)

Editorial, Child Support Reality, Baltimore Sun, Nov. 5, 2008.

Editorial, Feeding Maryland’s Poor - for Free, The Daily Record, Feb. 11, 2005.