Conference on Poverty and Inequality
Event Details
Date
Saturday, February 24, 2018
Location
Harvard Kennedy School 79 JFK Street Cambridge, MA 02138
This year’s Conference on Poverty and Inequality will take place at the Harvard Kennedy School on Saturday, February 24. With a theme of Uniting Against Poverty: New Alliances and Partnerships, the conference highlights non-traditional partnerships that bring fresh solutions to the country’s longstanding fight against poverty, such as labor empowerment, healthcare, and technology.
David Luberoff, Deputy Director of the Joint Center, will moderate a panel on Cross-Sector Strategies for Affordable Housing, featuring:
- Aaron Gornstein, President and CEO, Preservation of Affordable Housing (POAH)
- Keren Horn, Associate Professor of Economics, University of Massachusetts Boston
- Maurice Jones, President and CEO, Local Initiatives Support Coalition (LISC)
Highlighting the conference as keynote this year is Marian Wright Edelman, Founder and President of the Children's Defense Fund, and a recipient of the MacArthur Foundation Prize Fellowship and the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Tickets are on sale now. Use the following discount code to get $10 off admission: PovCon2017_Discount
