Curriculum Vitae
Current Roles
Assistant Professor, School of Social Work, California State University, Sacramento
Ford Fellow in Disability Policy Research, National Academy of Social Insurance
Member, NASI Social Security Speakers Bureau
Selected recent publications
Savin, K., & Barnes, C. (2025). “Playing the Game”: How Supplemental Security Income and Social Security Disability Insurance Recipients Cope with Administrative Burdens. Social Service Review, 99(4), 581-612.
Savin, K. (2025). “Social Security Won’t Let You Have a Nest Egg”: The Case for Updating Supplemental Security Income’s Asset Limit. Policy brief published by the National Academy of Social Insurance. https://www.nasi.org/discussion/social-security-wont-let-you-have-a-nest-egg-the-case-for-updating-supplemental-security-incomes-asset-limit/
Bowen, L., & Savin, K. (2025). From Self-Advocacy to Solidarity: Narrating Disability and Dementia beyond Personal Identity. The Hastings Center report, 55 Suppl 1, S97–S104. https://doi.org/10.1002/hast.4999
Savin, K. (2025). The Human Toll of Administrative Burden in Social Insurance Programs. Health & social work, 50(2), 87-89.
Savin, K., Morris, Z. A., Wise, M. S., & Marinoff, R. (2024). “Every day you are working you have to prove it”: Navigating the costs of work and ableism with visual impairment. Journal of vocational rehabilitation, 60(3), 389-401.
Savin, K. (2024). “Everyone Else Gets to Have the American Dream:” How Social Security Disability Policy Shapes Disability Identity. Journal of sociology and social welfare, 51(1).
In the news
Siegel Bernard, T. (2025, September 24). A diminished Social Security work force, and its customers, feel the strain. The New York Times. A diminished Social Security workforce, and its customers, feel the strain.
Peck, E. (2025, September 22). Trump’s Social Security shakeup is hurting the disabled and poor, advocates say. Axios. https://www.axios.com/2025/09/22/trump-social-security-ssi-benefits