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Poverty: A Discussion with Matthew Desmond

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2025-05-13 19:00:00 2025-05-13 20:00:00 America/Chicago Poverty: A Discussion with Matthew Desmond Bestselling author Matthew Desmond is in conversation with award-winning journalist, Natalie Moore. Skokie Public Library -

Tuesday, May 13
7:00pm - 8:00pm

Add to Calendar 2025-05-13 19:00:00 2025-05-13 20:00:00 America/Chicago Poverty: A Discussion with Matthew Desmond Bestselling author Matthew Desmond is in conversation with award-winning journalist, Natalie Moore. Skokie Public Library -

Bestselling author Matthew Desmond is in conversation with award-winning journalist, Natalie Moore.

Matthew Desmond is a professor of sociology at Princeton University and author of the award-winning book, Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City. The recipient of a MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship, he was named one of “fifty people across the country who are most influencing the national political debate” by Politico 50 in 2016. His research focuses on poverty in the United States, city life, housing insecurity, public policy, racial inequality, and ethnography.

Natalie Moore is an award-winning journalist based in Chicago. Her reporting tackles race, housing, economic development, food injustice, and violence. She is the author of The South Side: A Portrait of Chicago and American Segregation and coauthor of The Almighty Black P Stone Nation: The Rise, Fall and Resurgence of an American Gang. She has received  Chicago Library Foundation’s 21st Century Award and a Studs Terkel Community Media Award, among many other awards. Her work has helped shift the way Chicagoans today think about segregation in the region.

This event is made possible by Illinois Libraries Present (ILP), a statewide collaboration among public libraries offering premier events. ILP is funded in part by a grant awarded by the Illinois State Library, a department of the Office of Secretary of State, using funds provided by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services, under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA).

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Find Matthew Desmond's work in the library catalog.

AGE GROUP: | Adults |

EVENT TYPE: | Presentation |

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