Katherine S. Newman is the interim chancellor of the University of Massachusetts Boston and Torrey Little Professor of Sociology at UMass Amherst. In her leadership role, Dr. Newman is focused on creating opportunities for first generation, low income students to enter the prosperous industries that are so prominent in Boston, including those related to the life sciences. Dr. Newman was previously the Provost at UMass Amherst, Dean of the Arts and Sciences at Johns Hopkins, the Forbes Class of 1941 Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs at Princeton and Director of the Institute for International and Regional Studies; the founding Dean of Social Science at the Radcliffe Institute of Advanced Study; and the director of Harvard’s Multidisciplinary Program on Inequality and Social Policy. She taught for 16 years in the Department of Anthropology at Columbia University and for two years in the School of Law at the University of California Berkeley. Katherine has remained an active scholar, completing fifteen books and five edited volumes focusing both on issues of poverty and policy. A native Californian, she completed her undergraduate degree in philosophy and sociology at UC San Diego and her PhD in Anthropology at UC Berkeley.