ABOUT THE EVENT
Location: Villanova Room, Connelly Center, 800 Lancaster Ave., Villanova, PA 19085
Date: October 24, 2025
Time: 9:00 am-4:00 pm ET, Reception to follow
Please join us for the third annual Anti-Poverty Symposium. This year's event will be headlined by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Matthew Desmond, PhD, and focus on how local, community-based actions can address systemic poverty.
Full program details and speakers have been announced! Click here for the full agenda.
Additionally, the Pennsylvania Continuing Legal Education Board has approved this symposium for 4.5 Substantive CLE credits. Please note: CLE registration prior to the event is preferred.
We look forward to seeing you!
About the Speaker
Matthew Desmond, PhD, is a Pulitzer Prize winning-author of Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (2016) and Poverty, By America (2023). He is the Maurice P. During Professor of Sociology at Princeton University, where he is the principal investigator of the Eviction Lab. His 2017 Pulitzer Prize citation read, "For a deeply researched exposé that showed how mass evictions following the 2008 economic crash were less a consequence than a cause of poverty."
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