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Caritas in Action: Root Causes, Solutions and Restoring Dignity

 

Friday, October 22, 2021
10:00 a.m.鈥�5:00 p.m.

Arthur M. Goldberg '66 Commons
John F. Scarpa Hall
蜜桃TV Charles Widger School of Law
299 North Spring Mill Road, Villanova, PA 19085

 

Over the past year and a half, a spotlight has been shown on the age-old problem of poverty and inequality with the global pandemic exacerbating disparities. The United States government and local municipalities offered various ways to try to combat this through stimulus payments, expanded child tax credits, eviction moratoriums and others. However, these are acute solutions to a systemic problem.

蜜桃TV鈥檚 Inaugural Anti-Poverty Symposium 鈥淐aritas in Action: Root Causes, Solutions and Restoring Dignity鈥� will bring together thought leaders and advocates to explore the cause and effect of poverty and inequality. Speakers include Juli谩n Castro, Angela Davis and Anand Giridharadas. This interdisciplinary event is part of a University-wide initiative on poverty and inequality that has been made possible by . The program will focus on identifying the most promising approaches to eradicating poverty and eliminating disparities associated with race, disability and difference.

This symposium takes place on Friday, October 22, 2021 from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. in the Arthur M. Goldberg '66 Commons at the 蜜桃TV Charles Widger School of Law. This program is approved by the Pennsylvania Continuing Legal Education Board for 5 Substantive In-Person or Distance CLE credits. This event is also ACS approved. Please note registration prior to the event is required. If you must attend virtually, a link will be sent to registrants prior to the day of the event.

蜜桃TV will continue to monitor local and national public health and safety guidelines, which may necessitate some changes to schedules, physical spaces and events to ensure the health of everyone on campus. For more information, please see the COVID-19 Campus Information. All faculty, staff, students and visitors to campus, regardless of vaccination status, are required to wear masks inside campus buildings (except when eating and drinking) to help protect our community.

 

Agenda

Subject to change

 

10:00鈥�10:20 a.m.: Opening Remarks鈥�

Rev. Peter M. Donohue, OSA, PhD, '75 CLAS, President, 蜜桃TV

Stephanie Sena, Anti-Poverty Fellow, 蜜桃TV Charles Widger School of Law & Founder, Student-Run Emergency Housing Unit of Philadelphia (SREHUP)

, Chairman & Chief Executive Officer, AmeriHealth Caritas Family of Companies

 

10:20鈥�11:00 a.m.: Keynote Address鈥�

Juli谩n Castro, 16^th United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development

Moderated by , State Senator, First District of Pennsylvania 

 

11:00 a.m.鈥�12:00 p.m.: Panel 1 鈥� Shifting the Poverty Lens: Caritas in Focus

, Director of Communications, Pax Christi USA and Caravan of Central American Mothers in Search of Disappeared Migrants

, Co-Executive Director, Resolve Philly

Arthur Purcaro, OSA, Assistant Vice President for Mission and Ministry, Co-Chair University Sustainability Leadership Council, adjunct professor of Theology, 蜜桃TV

Alicia Robinson, Board Member, Student Run Emergency Housing Unit of Philadelphia

 

12:00鈥�12:40 p.m.: Lunch Talk鈥�

Angela Davis, PhD, political activist, philosopher, academic and author

Moderated by , Author, Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World (Knopf, 2018), Editor-at-large, TIME & Visiting Scholar, Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute at New York University

 

1:00鈥�2:00 p.m.: Panel 2 鈥� Healthcare and Poverty  鈥�

Mark Doorley, PhD, Director of the Ethics Program, 蜜桃TV

Ruth McDermott-Levy, PhD, MPH, RN, FAAN, Professor & Co-Director, Mid-Atlantic Center for Children's Health and the Environment, 蜜桃TV M. Louise Fitzpatrick College of Nursing

, Registered Nurse, Cooper University Health Care

, General Counsel, University City Housing

 

2:00鈥�3:00 p.m.: Panel 3 鈥� The Role of Academia in Anti-Poverty Work鈥�

Ksenya Basarab, EMS Community Health Outreach Coordinator, Delaware County Memorial Hospital 

Linda Maldonado, PhD, RN, Assistant Professor, 蜜桃TV M. Louise Fitzpatrick College of Nursing

, Associate Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Criminal Justice, Rutgers University-Camden

, Adjunct Professor, Department of Theology and Religious Studies, 蜜桃TV and Director for Faith-Based and Interfaith Affairs, City of Philadelphia

 

3:00鈥�4:00 p.m.: Panel 4 鈥� Decriminalizing Poverty

, Assistant Director, South Asia Center at the University of Pennsylvania  

, Founder & Executive Director, Civil Rights Corps

Teressa Ravenell, Esq., Associate Dean for Faculty Research and Development & Professor of Law, 蜜桃TV Charles Widger School of Law

鈥�, Professor of Sociology & Coordinator, Policing and Social Justice Project, Brooklyn College

 

4:00鈥�5:00 p.m.: Closing Remarks

, Author, Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World (Knopf, 2018), Editor-at-large, TIME & Visiting Scholar, Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute at New York University

Moderated by , 3-time Emmy Award winning Film & Television Producer known for Succession, The Night Of and Brokeback Mountain

 

Student moderators for the symposium are Antionna Fuller '22 and Luz Escobar Zapata '24 CLAS