Desmond is a professor of sociology at Pri nceton University and author of the award-winning book\, Evicted: Pove rty and Profit in the American City. The recipient of a MacArthur &ld quo\;Genius&rdquo\; Fellowship\, Desmond was named one of &ldquo\;fifty pe ople across the country who are most influencing the national political de bate&rdquo\; by Politico 50 in 2016. His research focuses on poverty in th e United States\, city life\, housing insecurity\, public policy\, racial inequality\, and ethnography.
\nNatalie Moore is an award-winning jo urnalist based in Chicago\, whose reporting tackles race\, housing\, econo mic development\, food injustice and violence. She is the author of the ac claimed The South Side: A Portrait of Chicago and American Segregation and co-author of The Almighty Black P Stone Nation: The Rise\, F all and Resurgence of an American Gang. Moore is the recipient of Chi cago Library Foundation&rsquo\;s 21st Century Award and a Studs Terkel Com munity Media Award among many others. Her work has helped shift the way Ch icagoans today think about segregation in the region.
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