Response to Daniel K. Finn

Laura Nichols is an associate professor of sociology and director of the undergraduate core curriculum
at Santa Clara University. Her research is in the areas of participatory program planning
and evaluation, the application of sociology in nonprofit organizations, the study of inequalities,
the experiences of first-generation college students, and teaching about inequality. She has most
recently published in the edited volume Homelessness in America as well as in the Journal of
Social Policy, Public Sociology: Research, Action, and Change, and the Journal of Family Issues.