Join Lotus Campaign for a virtual conversation about eviction prevention and homelessness in America. The candid discussion will feature Matthew Desmond, Professor of Sociology at Princeton University and author of Evicted, Poverty and Profit in the American City. The program will also feature a local panel with leaders in the nonprofit, healthcare, real estate, and advocacy spaces -- Bill Green (Ginkgo Residential), Carol Hardison (Crisis Assistance Ministry), Don Jonas (Atrium Health), and Chef Samone Lett (Food Network Star and Advocate)) – to create a community-based conversation.
Speaker
Speaker
Matthew
Desmond
Professor of Sociology, Author,
Princeton University
Matthew Desmond is the is the Maurice P. During Professor of Sociology at Princeton University. After receiving his Ph.D. in 2010 from the University of Wisconsin at Madison, he joined the Harvard Society of Fellows as a Junior Fellow. He is the author of four books, including Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (2016), which won the Pulitzer Prize, National Book Critics Circle Award, and Carnegie Medal, and PEN / John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction. The principal investigator of The Eviction Lab(link is external), Desmond's research focuses on poverty in America, city life, housing insecurity, public policy, racial inequality, and ethnography. He is the recipient of a MacArthur "Genius" Fellowship, the American Bar Association's Silver Gavel Award, and the William Julius Wilson Early Career Award. A Contributing Writer for the New York Times Magazine, Desmond was listed in 2016 among the Politico 50, as one of "fifty people across the country who are most influencing the national political debate."