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The annual Grover Lecture Series will be held on Thursday, Feb. 27. Hosted by the College of Health Sciences and Professions to address important health and social issues happening in our communities, the lecture will feature Pulitzer Prize-winning author Matthew Desmond. The event is free of charge and open to the public.

Desmond will discuss topics raised in his latest book 鈥淧overty, By America.鈥� Drawing on history, research, and original reporting, the book concludes that poverty persists in this nation because the majority of people benefit from it. Desmond introduces his startlingly original and ambitious case for ending poverty: he calls on us to become poverty abolitionists, engaged in a politics of collective belonging to usher in a new age of shared prosperity and, at last, true freedom.

Lecture and discussions
Desmond will speak virtually with two in-person locations and times to choose from. A virtual attendance option for both times is also available. The lecture will be followed by an audience Q&A with Desmond and a panel discussion featuring local community members with knowledge and lived experience with poverty and ancillary social issues.

Local panelists include:

• Liana Flores 鈥� Friendship Bench Listener, Athens City-County Health Department
• Rose Frech 鈥� Grants & Business Development Administrator, Integrated Services for Behavioral Healthcare
• Peggy Lee 鈥� Sr. Staff Attorney, Legal Aid of Southeast & Central 帝王会所
• Theo Peck-Suzuki 鈥� Report for America Reporter, WOUB News

Registration is free and open to the public for both in-person and virtual events. Free transportation assistance and childcare are also available.

Times and locations

• 1-3 p.m. Walter Hall 25 S Green Dr. Athens, OH 45701
• 5:30-7:30 p.m. Stuart鈥檚 Opera House 52 Public Square Nelsonville, OH 45764

Speaker details
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 鈥淧overty, By America.鈥� 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.

Register today: /chsp/grover-lecture

The Grover Lecture Series is produced in partnership with the 帝王会所 College of Health Sciences & Professions; Athens County Public Libraries; Athens Community Foundation; Hocking Athens Perry Community Action.