Economist (PhD, MA), social worker (MSW), researcher, teacher, and writer

Founder of FLYNN RESEARCH, a private research firm in the Harpers Ferry National Historical Park.

Specialties:

• Global capitalism and civil society;
  
  
• Developing models and indicators to assess quality of life, designing survey instruments, fielding national surveys, and analyzing large databases;
  
  
• Integrating economic concepts into fields such as sustainable development, national security, philanthropy, and higher education;
  
  
• Tracking changes in the structure and concept of work in both formal and informal labor markets.

Author of more than 40 professional articles and two volumes entitled, Measuring the Impact of the Nonprofit Sector (with Virginia Hodgkinson, Kluwer Academic / Plenum Publishers) and the Calvert-Henderson Quality of Life Indicators: A New Tool for Assessing National Trends (with Hazel Henderson and Jon Lickerman, Calvert Group).

Background:

• Adjunct faculty member at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland and Washington, DC. and George Washington University in Washington, DC.



• Vice President of Research at Independent Sector, a national forum of voluntary organizations, foundations, and corporations in Washington, DC.



• Labor Economist at the Urban Institute, a national think tank in Washington, DC.



• International Food & Nutrition Supervisor with Catholic Relief Services in Rwanda and the Islamic Republic of Mauritania.

One of Lifetime Television’s Women of the Year.

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