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The Littauer Series Presents
Matthew Desmond
Author of
Wednesday, February 26, 2025 at 7:00PM

Carling-Sorenson Theatre
Sorenson Center For The Arts
Wellesley, MA 02457
on the campus of Babson College


MacArthur “Genius” Matthew Desmond was launched onto the national stage as an expert on contemporary American poverty with the publication of his Pulitzer Prize winning bestseller "Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City". Desmond’s
latest book, "Poverty, by America", investigates why the United States, the richest country on earth, has more poverty than any other advanced democracy. Why does this land of plenty allow one in every eight of its children to go without basic necessities, permit scores of its citizens to live and die on the streets, and authorize its corporations to pay poverty wages?

Desmond is the Maurice P. During Professor of Sociology and the founder and principal investigator of the Eviction Lab at Princeton University. His work has been supported by the Gates, Horowitz, Ford, JBP, MacArthur, and National Science, Russel 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.

Presented by the Littauer Committee, jointly housed in the Arts & Humanities and History & Society Divisions, with additional support provided by the Foundations of Critical Inquiry (FCI) Program and the Associate Deans of the Undergraduate School.

FREE. Event is limited to Babson Students, Faculty and Staff.  Priority Given to Students Enrolled in Spring 2025 FCI Classes.  Registration required.