She had the opportunity to work with start-up NGOs to large scale microfinance banks- all of who aimed to transform the lives of poor women through business. In 2018 he completed his PhD in Political Theory at the University of Melbourne, which examined how freedom is conceptualised in measures of democracy, and he developed a new measure of democracy using a definition of freedom based upon the capability approach.Īfter working at the OECD in Paris, Heather spent close to a decade working with one of the largest microfinance organisations globally, Opportunity International. Previously Jeremiah has worked as a financial wellbeing research fellow at the Centre for Social Impact UNSW, and in 2019-2020 he was the inaugural ANZ Tony Nicholson research fellow at the Brotherhood of Saint Laurence Research and Policy Centre, where he worked on how the concept of economic dignity can be used as a framework to evaluate ideas, structures and policies related to financial wellbeing. His recent work has analysed the role that application forms can play in preventing access to social security support, and how using a systems approach to financial wellbeing can improve our understanding of the concept and improve financial wellbeing related outcomes. Jeremiah’s work draws heavily on Amartya Sen’s capability approach to understand how different kinds of disadvantage can constrain people’s freedom in established democratic societies. He participates in a working group on work and wealth at the Aspen Institute in its Financial Security Program and serves in an advisory capacity to the Boston Federal Reserve (Community Development Research Advisory Council) and the Lloyds Banking Group Centre for Responsible Business at the Birmingham Business School (UK). Professor Wherry led the Social Science History Association ( ) as its president in 2018 and as the chair of the Economic Sociology Section and of the Consumers and of the Consumption Section of the American Sociological Association. He served as the editor of the four-volume Sage Encyclopedia of Economics and Society as well as Money Talks: Explaining How Money Really Works (with Nina Bandelj and Viviana A. Alvarez) and edited The Oxford Handbook of Consumption (with Ian Woodward), both in 2019. Professor Wherry recently published Credit Where It’s Due: Rethinking Financial Citizenship (with Kristin S. The network also supports the development of dignity-enhancing products and services so that financial inclusion centres the understandings and priorities of the excluded in its designs. The network operates across a dozen countries, incubating research on how dignity and respect affect consumers’ engagements with and responses to debt. She has sold her art since 2007 and briefly retired from her brushes and easel to complete her two books.Dignity and Debt is a global network of scholars, advocates, and financial organisations working to understand and empower the linkages between lending and human values.
Her second book, titled, “Conversations With the Tuesday Night Girls,” Is a collection of short stories about her inner circle of friends who meet every Tuesday night to chat they have been gathering since 2009.Ĭlaire has had short stories published by Story Circle Network, The Cincinnati Enquirer, and Indiana Voice Journal.
It’s a story about survival in a time when mental illness was thought to be a human failing rather than a metabolic disorder that wreaks havoc on one’s thoughts. She loves chilling with family and friends, and has just completed her memoir, with the working title, “Someday You Will Understand,” about growing up with two mentally ill parents. She moved to Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1980, where she married and raised two children while teaching art and art history for eleven years at the parochial school where her children were enrolled. Claire is a writer and an artist with a love for tennis, animals, gourmet cooking and studying French.
Claire Butler was born in Dayton, Ohio, in a sleepy little part of town called North Riverdale, about a half a mile from the Great Miami River.
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