Dr. David A. Snow is a recently retired Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Irvine, which he joined in 2001 following appointments at the University of Texas, Austin, and the University of Arizona. He has authored or co-authored some 150 articles and chapters on homelessness, social movements and protest, religious conversion, framing processes, identity, and qualitative research methods in a range of sociological and social science journals and edited volumes, and 12 books including the award-winning Down on Their Luck: A Study of Homeless Street People (with L. Anderson). Professor Snow has conducted research on homelessness in numerous cities throughout the country, including Orange County, where he and Dr. Rachel Goldberg conducted a study of homelessness and its costs in the county between 2016-2017. The study was co-sponsored by OC United Way, Jamboree Housing, and UCI. Professor Snow is past President of the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction and the Pacific Sociological Association, a past Vice President of the American Sociological Association, and a recipient of numerous scholarly awards, including the Society for the Study of Social Problems’ 2008 Lee Founders Award for career contributions to the study of social problems, the 2012 UCI Alumni Lauds & Laurels Faculty Achievement Award, and the 2013 John D. McCarthy Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Scholarship of Social Movements and Collective Behavior from Notre Dame University’s Center for the Study of Social Movements. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of Families Forward in Irvine and Share Our Selves (SOS) in Costa Mesa, is a member of the Newport Beach City Council Ad Hoc Committee on Homelessness, and was recognized as a 2020 Volunteer of the Year by WISE Place in Santa Ana for helping women experiencing homelessness find hope and housing.