Name: Lecture with Matthew Desmond: Why Poverty Exists in America & What We Can Do About It
Start: 2025-02-27T13:00:00-05:00
End: 2025-02-27T15:00:00-05:00
Location: 25 S Green Dr, Athens, OH 45701-3141, United States

Lecture with Matthew Desmond: Why Poverty Exists in America & What We Can Do About It

In-person and virtual event: Join us for a thought-provoking lecture with New York Times Best Selling Author Matthew Desmond, who will discuss topics raised in his latest book Poverty, By America.
Two options to attend in-person or virtually:
1:00-3:00 p.m. at Ohio University's Walter Hall
5:30-7:30 p.m. at Stuart's Opera House
Desmond draws on history, research, and original reporting to conclude that poverty persists in this nation because the rest of us benefit from it. Desmond introduces his startlingly original and ambitious case for ending poverty: he calls on us to become poverty abolitionists, engaged in a politics of collective belonging to usher in a new age of shared prosperity and, at last, true freedom.

Desmond will be on Zoom. Audience Q&A and a local live panel discussion with follow.

Free and open to the public. Free transportation and childcare options available.
Details and registration for both in-person and virtual: https://www.ohio.edu/chsp/grover-lecture