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Susan Brown is CASA’s Vice President, Director of Finance and Administration and Secretary-Treasurer. She is responsible for day-to-day management of the office including fiscal management, grants and contracts administration, payroll, benefits, accounts payable, library and computer systems. She also works with independent auditors who prepare annual audited financial statements and coordinates benefits with Columbia University. In addition, she acts as liaison with the Board of Directors and the Board’s Audit and Investment Committees. Prior to joining CASA in 1991, Sue was the administrator in Washington, D.C. law firms of Dewey Ballantine, Califano, Ross and Heineman, and Cohen and Uretz. She received her BS in Education from The George Washington University.
Joseph A. Califano, Jr. is CASA’s Founder and Chairman. Mr. Califano has had a distinguished career in public service. Mr. Califano received his Bachelor of Arts degree from The College of the Holy Cross and his LLB from Harvard Law School, magna cum laude. He has extensive experience in both government and private law practice. After service in the Navy, Mr. Califano joined the Kennedy administration in 1961 and served as General Counsel of the Army and Special Assistant to the Secretary and Deputy Secretary of Defense. From 1965 to 1969 he served as Special Assistant for Domestic Affairs to President Lyndon Johnson. From 1977 to 1979 he was Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare in the Carter administration. In the intervening years and until 1992, Mr. Califano practiced law in Washington, D.C. and New York City. He founded CASA in 1992.
Lauren Duran is CASA’s Director of Communications. She is responsible for CASA’s media activities including writing and editing print, electronic and web-based materials for external distribution, press releases, newsletters and brochures. In addition, she pitches CASA’s policy reports, white papers and press conferences to national and local press outlets. Lauren came to CASA in 2003 as communications associate, then special assistant to the president and then as Director of Communications in 2006. Before coming to CASA, Lauren was a publicist for a multimillion dollar corporation and worked as a producer for media and entertainment companies. Lauren received her BA in English from the State University of New York College at Oswego.
Kathleen Ferrigno is CASA’s Director of Marketing. Kathleen is responsible to develop and oversee creative and strategic marketing plans to increase the visibility of the CASA brand and interest and support from potential donors. Key responsibilities include marketing CASA as a national asset, CASA’s books, CASACONFERENCESSM and the CASA High Society documentary film. She manages the Family Day—A Day to Eat Dinner with Your ChildrenTM initiative, developing materials (e.g., PSA’s, brochures, posters) and expanding corporate partnerships. Kathleen came to CASA from the Civic Entertainment Group, a marketing and promotions firm, where she was an account director responsible for clients such as The History Channel, for whom she brokered a successful partnership with the City of New York to promote heritage tourism to NYC. Prior to that she was in charge of marketing for the Christmas Radio City Rockettes shows outside of New York City.
William H. Foster, PhD is CASA’s President and CEO. For the past four years, Dr. Foster served as Dean of Maine’s Edmund S. Muskie School of Public Service, where he led a successful revamping of both the school’s academic and research programs and positioning the school well to extend the Senator’s legacy of public service. He has returned to CASA where he previously served for ten years as senior vice-president and chief operating officer. Dr. Foster has served as executive director of a Congressional Commission on Social Security, chief of staff and deputy commissioner of the New Jersey Department of Labor, and a policy advisor to Senator Bill Bradley. He spent 17 years on the faculty at the University of Illinois and Rutgers University. Bill holds a PhD in Counseling Psychology from the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
Susan E. Foster, MSW is CASA’s Vice President and Director of Policy Research and Analysis. Ms. Foster is responsible for research and policy analysis on the impact of substance abuse on America’s systems and populations. Projects under her direction include studies of the nation's treatment system; how substance abuse affects state and local budgets, the justice system, schools and colleges, women, young people and the family; the role of religion and spirituality in prevention and treatment; the relation of substance abuse to sexual conduct, eating disorders, gambling, and violence. Prior to coming to CASA she was co-owner of a public policy consulting firm, providing advice and consultation to state and local governments, private agencies and foundations. During the Carter administration, Ms. Foster was Special Assistant to the Secretary and Deputy Under Secretary for Intergovernmental Affairs, US Department of Health, Education and Welfare. She has authored publications on a broad range of public policy issues. Ms. Foster has an MSW in social policy from Rutgers University.
Aaron Hogue, PhD is CASA’s Associate Director of the Health and Treatment Research and Analysis Division. Dr. Hogue is also Consulting Editor for the Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology. He is a licensed clinical psychologist who received his BA from Columbia University and doctorate from Temple University in 1994. His research interests include the development of family-based interventions for adolescent drug use and delinquency, adherence and process research on family intervention models, and case management services for adult substance users and their families who receive public assistance.
David Man, PhD, MLS is CASA's Library Director and Information Specialist responsible for providing library services to CASA researchers. He obtained his master's degree in library science from Columbia University's School of Library and Information Science and his PhD in linguistics from the Graduate Center at the City University of New York. He was recently elected as head of the national organization of substance abuse librarians known as Substance Abuse Librarians and Information Specialists.
Jon Morgenstern, PhD is CASA's Vice President and Director of Health and Treatment Research and Analysis. He is also Professor of Clinical Psychology and Director of Substance Abuse Services at Columbia University Medical School. Prior to his position at Columbia, he was on the faculties of Rutgers University and Mt. Sinai School of Medicine. Dr. Morgenstern, a licensed psychologist in NY and NJ, is an expert in substance abuse treatment and health services research. His areas of interest include strategies to improve existing community-based substance abuse treatment. He has been called upon to serve on editorial boards, peer review committees, advisory boards and state agencies. He has been the principal investigator on numerous federal government grants from NIDA, NIMH, NIAAA, SAMHSA, CDC, and state grants from New Jersey and New York City.
Lawrence F. Murray, MSW is CASA’s Vice President and Director of Youth Programs. He is primarily responsible for the development and implementation of CASASTARTSM, a substance abuse and violence prevention program. Mr. Murray earned his master's degree in social work from Hunter College. Prior to coming to CASA in 1996, he was the Urban Hub Director of the Washington Business Group on Health and Associate Commissioner for the New York State Office of Mental Health. From 1987-1993, Mr. Murray was the Assistant Commissioner for Community Based Services for the Department of Juvenile Justice of the City of New York.
Charles J. Neighbors, PhD, MBA is CASA’s Associate Director of the Health and Treatment Research and Analysis Division. He received his BA in History and Spanish from Washington University in St. Louis; his MBA in Finance from Indiana University and his PhD in Clinical Psychology from Rutgers University. Dr. Neighbors came to CASA from Brown Medical School where he was Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and a Research Fellow. Prior to that he was a Financial Analyst at Kraft-General Foods in White Plains, NY.
Tamara Schlinger, Esq. is CASA's General Counsel and Special Assistant for Public Policy working for Mr. Califano on a variety of projects. Tamara attended the Univ. of North Dakota (BA/Political Science), the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University (MPA) and Syracuse University College of Law, where she graduated magna cum laude. While in college, Tamara worked for the Bureau of Governmental Affairs in North Dakota. After law school, she worked as a law clerk for a federal district judge in Syracuse and was then in the private practice of law for 6 years here in NYC.
Roger D. Vaughan, DrPH, MS is Director of CASA’s Substance Abuse Data Analysis Center (SADAC). Dr. Vaughan is also the Associate Editor for Statistics and Evaluation of the American Journal for Public Health; Assistant Editor for Statistics, Journal of the American Medical Women’s Association; and Clinical Professor of Biostatistics, Department of Biostatistics, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University. Dr. Vaughan earned his master's degree in applied statistics and his doctorate in biostatistics from Columbia University. He is currently serving as a consulting biostatistician at Rockefeller University and is Director of Evaluation at Harlem Prevention Center and Harlem Children’s Zone Asthma Initiative in New York City.