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Dr. Matthew Desmond
March 8, 2018 @ 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm
Bunker Hill Community College Compelling Conversations
Dr. Matthew Desmond
Pulitzer Prize-winning Sociologist and Author
Sociologist Matthew Desmond is the author of New York Times bestseller and winner of the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City. In 2015, Desmond was awarded a MacArthur Genius Grant for “revealing the impact of eviction on the lives of the urban poor and its role in perpetuating racial and economic inequality.” His landmark work Evicted tells the stories of eight families living on the edge and the landlords who control their fate. Desmond will transform our understanding of extreme poverty and economic exploitation (unfair or inadequate pay for work) while providing fresh ideas for solving one of the most urgent issues facing America today–housing insecurity.
“If incarceration had come to define the lives of men from impoverished black neighborhoods, eviction was shaping the lives of women. Poor black men were locked up. Poor black women were locked out.”
― Matthew Desmond, Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
Thursday, March 8, 2018
Program begins at 1 p.m.
Bunker Hill Community College
A300
250 New Rutherford Avenue
Boston, MA 02129
This event is free and open to the public, but seating is limited. Online registration is required
at bhcc.edu/cc/