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Friday, June 1 • 8:30am - 10:00am
Symposia: The Income Gap: The Rise and Polarization of Poverty

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Discussion focus on how high and rising inequalities hinder efforts to enhance wealth inclusion. Has thinking about on poverty changed? What are today's challenges to eliminating extreme poverty? Share your thoughts on why or how inequality is not a single ideas but takes many forms and can be seen differently by different people.
Speakers
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Danise Jones Dorsey

Executive Director, My Brothers Keeper
avatar for Rasheeda Jamison Harriott

Rasheeda Jamison Harriott

President and CEO, United Communities Against Poverty
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George A. Jones

Chief Executive Director, Bread for The City
George A. Jones became Chief Executive Officer of Bread for the City (BFC) on January 2, 1996. BFC’s mission is to alleviate the suffering caused by poverty and rectify the conditions that perpetuate poverty. The agency achieves this goal by, each month, providing free food, clothing... Read More →
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Dr. Acklyn Lynch

Professor, Author, Emeritus
A distinguished scholar, activist and expert on international economics, Lynch is well versed inpolitics, history, literature, cultural Diaspora arts, jazz and calypso. Dr. Lynch served as Chair ofthe Department of Africana Studies at the University of Maryland Baltimore County. The... Read More →

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