State of the Union Conference 2017

The Stanford Center on Poverty and Inequality is proud to announce our fourth annual State of the Union Conference. This year's topic: racial and ethnic inequalities. More details will be available soon.

Roster of Experts

Education

• Sean Reardon, Professor of Poverty and Inequality in Education and Professor (by courtesy) of Sociology, Stanford University

Health

• Rucker Johnson, Associate Professor, Goldman School of Public Policy, University of California-Berkeley

Housing

• Matthew Desmond, John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences, Harvard University

Incarceration

• Becky Pettit, Professor of Sociology, University of Texas-Austin
• Bryan Sykes, Assistant Professor in the Department of Criminology, Law and Society, University of California-Irvine

Income Inequality

• Matthew Snipp, Burnet C. and Mildred Finley Wohlford Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences, Stanford University

Labor Markets

• Michael Hout, Professor of Sociology, New York University

Mobility

• Florencia Torche, Professor of Sociology, Stanford University

Poverty

• Linda Burton, Dean of the Social Sciences, Duke University
• Beth Mattingly, Director of Research on Vulnerable Families, Carsey School of Public Policy, University of New Hampshire, and Research Consultant, Stanford Center on Poverty and Inequality
• Juan Pedroza, Ph.D. candidate in sociology, Stanford University
• Whitney Welsh, Research Scientist, Social Science Research Institute, Duke University

Safety Net

• Mark Duggan, Trione Director of SIEPR and Wayne and Jodi Cooperman Professor of Economics, Stanford University

Wealth Inequality

• Thomas Shapiro, Pokross Professor of Law and Social Policy, Brandeis University