Eva Austin, MSW

Eva Austin is a member of the Spiritual Activism Group and of the Arlington Metaphysical Chapel. When the Northern Virginia Metaphysical Fellowship was operational, Eva served on the Board as Vice President and Outreach Coordinator. While on the Board, among other activities, Eva coordinated the Fellowship’s support of a family during the Christmas holiday, and the Fellowship’s financial support of the Arlington Offender Aid and Restoration program. This program helped individuals who were incarcerated or who were recently released from incarceration, were largely forgotten by society and in need of support.

Eva is currently retired and works as a Management and Program Consultant. In this capacity, she contracts with a federal agency to provide field reviews for various program initiatives; she provides case management and cultural diversity training for human service agencies in the Baltimore and DC areas; she develops and coordinates outreach and marketing strategies for community-based organizations; and facilitates workshops and seminars.

Prior to her retirement, Eva served as a consultant to the Acting Commissioner of the Social Security Administration. In that position, she was responsible for building and enhancing collaborative partnerships with non-profit, faith-based, national, state, and local entities. She oversaw Representative Payee Pilot programs and other initiatives throughout the country.

As Director of Maryland’s Governor’s Office for Children, Youth and Families, Eva managed the inter-agency collaborative effort to reform the child welfare system; and, as a result of that collaboration, local management boards were established, in each jurisdiction, to leverage funds to return children from out-of-state placements.

During her career, Eva held many other positions including: Chief Executive Officer of the Martin Pollak Project, Inc. – a treatment foster care agency with offices in Baltimore, MD and Washington, DC; Trainer/Program Consultant for the Washington, DC Department of Human Services, Mental Retardation Administration; and Chief of Communications for the Baltimore City Department of Social Services (with more than 3,000 staff).

Eva holds a master’s degree in Social Work from the University of Maryland, School of Social Work. She completed advanced studies in Organization Development/Change Management at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore.

She has worked as a hospice social worker for (the former) Community Hospice of Baltimore and is a trained hospice volunteer.