DASRF | About The Director

The Dutch American Social Research Foundation aims to foster intercultural understanding and exchange among students and professionals active in social services or research in the Netherlands and United States. Each year the foundation offers four individuals the opportunity to write a paper on a specified topic of interest that should raise awareness of similarities and differences inherent to the two countries’ social service systems, identify areas that warrant further study, and serve as a forum for cultural exchange among social service professionals in both countries.

Pauline Broberg — DASRF Director

Pauline Broberg-Lewin was born in Delft, the Netherlands and moved to the States when she was a child. She studied at the University of Wisconsin in Madison and graduated from the University of Pennsylvania. She has a Masters degree in International Education and Service from Lesley University and a degree in Chinese Language and Culture from Leiden University. She holds a MS degree from NYU and became a CSW in the state of New York in 2002.

Social activist Jean Rosner (d.2002) introduced Mrs. Broberg-Lewin to comparative cultural studies and encouraged her to travel and serve others. Mrs. Broberg-Lewin has worked in a variety of capacities on projects fostering cross cultural understanding in places as diverse as Canada, Northern Ireland, Israel, India, Nepal and China. She taught elementary school children in the Netherlands as well as in the United States. After receiving a NEA award for her cross cultural work at an inner-city school, she attended summer school at Columbia University studying under Judy Pasamanick.

Mrs. Broberg-Lewin has translated and co-edited a variety of works in English, Dutch and Chinese. At present, she lives and works in Philadelphia and Amsterdam, traveling between the Netherlands and United States regularly.