Ruth G. Mcroy

Ruth McRoy, is very well known for her research and published works she’s done on adoption. She realized not much was known about what the best placements were, and what was known about the long-term outcomes for adopted children and their families. She sought to provide the research, especially related to racial matching and privacy, to better inform adoption practices and wanted to ensure that decisions were being made that were in the best interests of the child. She has chaired more than 20 dissertations and served on more than 80 committees in fields beyond social work, at Boston College, University of Texas at Austin, Smith College and Tufts University. Since 2009 she has been at Boston College, where she became the first holder of the Donahue and DiFelice Endowed Professorship at Boston College School of Social Work. There she is also Co-Founding Director with Tiziana Dearing and David T. Takeuchi of the Research and Innovations in Social, Economic, and Environmental Equity (RISE).

Alma Maters: PhD from the University of Texas at Austin, and a MSW and BA Degree from the University of Kansas.

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