Author of Poverty, By America (2023) and Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (2016)
Matthew Desmond is the Maurice P. During Professor of Sociology at Princeton University and the founding director of the Eviction Lab. His last book, Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City, won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award, among others. The recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, Desmond is also a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine.
Going to the Root: Libraries, Adult Literacy, and the Interruption of Generational Poverty
Saturday, June 24, 2023
1:00 PM - 2:15 PM CT