Poverty: A Virtual Discussion with Matthew Desmond

Join the Quincy Public Library and Illinois Libraries Present (ILP) for another amazing virtual program! Attend this virtual event with Matthew Desmond by joining us in the library to watch it on the big screen, or watch from home.  Desmond is the author of multiple books, including author of Poverty, by America (2023) and Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (2016), which won the Pulitzer Prize, National Book Critics Circle Award, and Carnegie Medal, and PEN / John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction. 

Matthew Desmond is the Maurice P. During Professor of Sociology at Princeton University and the principal investigator of The Eviction Lab.  Desmond's research focuses on poverty in America, city life, housing insecurity, public policy, racial inequality, and ethnography. A Contributing Writer for the New York Times Magazine, Desmond was listed in 2016 among the Politico 50, as one of "fifty people across the country who are most influencing the national political debate."

This virtual program is free for all members of the community, brought to you by the Quincy Public Library through ILP! After registering, you will receive a Zoom link and you will be able to attend this program from home!

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.

To register and receive your link to attend this program online, go to: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_N_tj5jAqS46qrC2rA1B8Sw#/registration