What Can Be Done for Those Left Behind in Wealthy Boston?

Date: 

Monday, October 2, 2017, 4:15pm to 5:45pm

Location: 

Malcolm Wiener Auditorium (Taubman Building TG-1)


A Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy event


Moderated by David T. Ellwood
Director of the Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy and Isabelle and Scott Black Professor of Political Economy, Harvard Kennedy School

John Barros
Chief of Economic Development, City of Boston

Lyndia Downie
President and Executive Director, Pine Street Inn, Boston

J. Bryan Hehir
Parker Gilbert Montgomery Professor of the Practice of Religion and Public Life, Harvard Kennedy School, and Secretary for Health Care and Social Services in the Archdiocese of Boston

Sister Margaret Leonard
Founder and Strategic Advisor, Project Hope, Boston

Richard J. Murnane
Juliana W. and William Foss Thompson Research Professor of Education and Society, Harvard Graduate School of Education

William Julius Wilson
Lewis P. and Linda Geyser University Professor and Director of the Project on Race, Class, and Cumulative Adversity, Harvard University

With remarks by Mary Jo Bane
Thornton Bradshaw Professor of Public Policy and Management, Harvard Kennedy School