Making Ends Meet – Pisgah Legal’s 8th Annual Poverty Forum

8th Annual Poverty Forum

“Making Ends Meet:

Women and Poverty in WNC”

featuring Kathryn Edin 
 Princeton Sociologist and Author of $2 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America

Thursday, October 4, 2018
Thomas Wolfe Auditorium, U.S. Cellular Center, Asheville

5:30pm Cocktail Reception; 7:00pm Forum

Tickets:
$50/person Cocktail Reception/Forum
$15/person for Forum only.
We have just released 25 more Reception/Forum Tickets!

Cocktail Reception/Forum and Forum Only tickets on sale now through Ticketmaster at the U.S. Cellular Center
Online and by phone at 800-745-3000. Additional Ticketmaster fees apply.
To avoid additional fees, buy tickets in-person at the U.S. Cellular Box Office in downtown Asheville.
No tickets will be sold through Pisgah Legal’s website.

Recommended parking areas are at City parking decks on Rankin Ave. and Wall Street

About the Speaker

Edin has authored eight books and some 60 journal articles. $2 a Day: The Art of Living on Virtually Nothing in America, co-authored with Luke Shaefer, was met with wide critical acclaim. It was included in The New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2015, cited as “essential reporting about the rise in destitute families.”

Edin is a Trustee of the Russell Sage Foundation, was a founding member of the MacArthur Foundation-funded Network on Housing and Families with Young Children and was a past member of the MacArthur Network on the Family and the Economy.  In 2014, she was elected to both the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences. She was elected to the National Academy of Social Insurance in 2017

Edin received a bachelor’s degree in sociology from North Park University and a Ph.D. in sociology from Northwestern University. She has previously taught at Rutgers University, Northwestern University, the University of Pennsylvania, Harvard University, and Johns Hopkins University

Dr. Edin has authored eight books including $2 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America. The hallmark of her research is her direct, in-depth observations of the lives of low-income women, men and children.

About the Panelists

Latoya Gardner, JD– Pisgah Legal Services, Community Economic Development Educator and Expunction Project Coordinator
Bella Jackson, Voices for Economic Justice Facilitator, UNC-A Student
Sala Menaya-Merritt– YWCA of Asheville, Chief Program Officer
Carmen Ramos-Kennedy, Just Economics of WNC, Living Wage Program Coordinator and Asheville Buncombe County NAACP, President

About the Poverty Forum

This is the eighth year Pisgah Legal Services has hosted a forum to draw attention to the plight of low-income people in Western North Carolina. This year’s forum focuses on the challenges faced by women and how they are disproportionately affected by poverty. Approximately 75% of Pisgah Legal’s clients are women.

For more information about the event, contact Michelle Spiegel at Pisgah Legal Services: 828-210-3773.

Special thanks to the following sponsors:

Partners For Justice
The following generously provide $5,000 or more each year in financial
or in-kind support to Pisgah Legal Services. Thank you for your support!