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DESCRIPTION:<p>Join us to close out our fourth season with bestselling author Matthew Desmond in conversation with award-winning journalist, Natalie Moore.</p>

<p>Desmond is a professor of sociology at Princeton University and author of the award-winning book, <em>Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City.</em> The recipient of a MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship, Desmond 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.</p>

<p>Natalie Moore is an award-winning journalist based in Chicago, whose reporting tackles race, housing, economic development, food injustice and violence. She is the author of the acclaimed <em>The South Side: A Portrait of Chicago and American Segregation </em>and co-author of T<em>he Almighty Black P Stone Nation: The Rise, Fall and Resurgence of an American Gang.</em> Moore is the recipient of Chicago Library Foundation’s 21st Century Award and a Studs Terkel Community Media Award among many others. Her work has helped shift the way Chicagoans today think about segregation in the region.</p>

<p>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).</p>

<p>ILP is committed to inclusion and accessibility. To request accommodations, please email illinoislibrariespresent@gmail.com</p>

<p>This will be a virtual event via Zoom. Registration is required. To sign up, <a href="https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_N_tj5jAqS46qrC2rA1B8Sw#/registration"><u><strong>click here.</strong></u></a></p>

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SUMMARY:Illinois Libraries Present: Poverty -- A Discussion with Matthew Desmond
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