CONFERENCE ON POVERTY AND INEQUALITY
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
