Dr. Julian Chun-Chung Chow, Chair Professor, Hutto-Patterson Charitable Foundation, Child and Family Studies, School of Social Welfare, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA

Dr. Julian Chun-Chung Chow is a professor at the School of Social Welfare at the University of California, Berkeley. He is considered a leading scholar in community practice, service delivery, and urban poverty in the field of social work. In 2016, Dr. Chow was appointed as chair professor for the Hutto-Patterson Charitable Foundation in Child and Family Studies, the first Asian American faculty member to have been honored with an endowed chair professorship at the School of Social Welfare. Dr. Chow was recently named a 2016 Fellow by the Society for Social Work and Research (SSWR). This prestigious honor is bestowed upon SSWR members who have worked to promote a diverse and equitable society and to advance research addressing issues of social work practice and policy. In 2011, Dr. Chow was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to become the first Fulbright Scholar in social work to visit the Department of Social Work at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, where he studied the development of social service systems and infrastructure in China.

Dr. Chow received his Bachelor of Arts degree in Sociology and Social Work from Tunghai University in Taiwan, and both his Master of Science in Social Administration and his Ph.D. in Social Welfare from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, OH. He is one of the founders of the Cleveland Chinese School, a nonprofit organization that revolutionized language immersion programs by offering both a Chinese language curriculum to English-speaking children and English-learning classes for their immigrant parents. Dr. Chow has remained an active volunteer within the Asian American community and continually works to improve the lives of immigrants to the United States. Dr. Chow became a U.S. citizen in 1989.