Barbara Robles, Associate Professor

Faculty Research Associate

(Ph.D., University of Maryland-College Park)

Interests
Latino Family and Community Financial Needs and Behaviors, Asset Building Policies, and Latino/a Entrepreneurship, Family Economic Security: Linking the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) with community based organizations/agencies providing direct asset building programs to Latino family and communities

Sample Publications
The Color of Wealth: The Story of the U.S. Racial Wealth Divide (Book, New Pres, Forthcoming Spring 2006)

"Latina Microenterprises and the U.S.-Mexico Border Economy," (2002) Estey Center Journal of International Law and Trade Policy, Vol. 3, No.2, pp. 307-327

"An Asset Approach to Educational Diversity Policies: Exporting Democracy," (2004) Aztlan: International Journal of Chicano Studies Research, Vol. 29, No. 2, pp. 185-197

"Emergent Entrepreneurs: Latina-Owned Businesses in the Borderlands," (2004) Texas Business Review

"Wealth Creation in Latino Communities: Latino Families, Community Assets and Cultural Capital," (book chapter) in Wealth Accumulation in Communities of Color, (University of Michigan Press, forthcoming Spring 2006).

Funded Research
Southwest Border Financial Behaviors and Needs Survey, five year project funded by the Annie E. Casey Foundation, State Farm Foundations, Kauffman Foundation and the Filene Research Institute (Credit Union Research Institute)

Service Learning and Leadership Programs for Latino First Generation University Attending Students funded by the Annie E. Casey Foundation, Inter-University Program for Latino Research, State Farm Foundations, Filene Research Institute, and National Association of Latino Community Asset Builders (NALCAB)

Barbara Robles
Associate Professor

Center for Community Development & Civil Rights
and School of Social Work
College of Public Programs
Arizona State University

542 E. Monroe, Suite D100
Phoenix, AZ 85004

Phone: (602) 496-0074
Fax: (602) 496-0960
barbara.robles@asu.edu

542 E. Monroe, Suite D100
Phoenix, AZ 85004

Phone: (602) 496-0074
Fax: (602) 496-0960
barbara.robles@asu.edu