25th Annual John P. Frank Memorial Lecture with Matthew Desmond

Discussing his most recent book "Poverty, by America", join Matthew Desmond for the annual John P. Frank Memorial Lecture. This event is open to the public and will be live-streamed through ASU Live. 

Matthew Desmond is the Maurice P. During Professor of Sociology and the founder and principal investigator of the Eviction Lab at Princeton University. He is the award-winning author of "Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City" (2016), which won the Pulitzer Prize, National Book Critics Circle Award, Carnegie Medal, and PEN / John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction. "Evicted" combines years of embedded fieldwork with painstakingly gathered data and transforms our understanding of inequity and economic exploitation in America. 

A former member of the Harvard Society of Fellows, 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.

This ASU School of Social Transformation event is in partnership with The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Watts College of Public Service and Community Solutions, Center for Work and Democracy and the City of Phoenix. 

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