WENDY SMITH is associate dean for faculty development and clinical associate professor at the USC School of Social Work. Smith is active in community organizations, serving on the boards of United Friends of the Children, an organization which serves foster youth and former foster youth, and Venice Family Clinic, where she chairs the mental health and child development subcommittee. She is a volunteer advocate with Human Rights Watch, working on juvenile justice issues and serving on the advisory committee of its Children’s Rights Division. She also sits on the board of the Anti-Recidivism Coalition and is a founding member of the board of the National Foster Youth Institute. PhD, University of California, Los Angeles, 1994 MSW, University of California, Los Angeles, 1970 BA, University of California, Berkeley, 1968