The College of Health Sciences & Professions presents the acclaimed Grover Lecture, featuring speaker Dr. Matthew Desmond who will lecture at 1 pm at Walter Hall and again at 5:30 pm at Stuart’s Opera House, about his research and book, Poverty, by America. A panel discussion will follow both lectures.

More about Matthew Desmond: Desmond is the Maurice P. During Professor of Sociology and the founder and principal investigator of the Eviction Lab at Princeton University.  He is a former member of the Harvard Society of Fellows, coauthor of two books on race, and the editor of a collection of studies on severe deprivation in America, including Poverty, By America . He has written essays on educational inequality, dangerous work, political ideology, race and social theory, and the inner-city housing market. His work has been supported by the Gates, Horowitz, Ford, JBP, MacArthur, and National Science, Russell Sage, and W.T. Grant Foundations, as well as the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative. He is a Contributing Writer for The New York Times Magazine , and his writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post,  the New Yorker ,  and The Chicago Tribune .