Lobo Reading Experience and
Celebration of Student Writing
Present:
The Working Poor – Invisible in America
Join author David Shipler, community members, faculty, students, and staff for a discussion on this critical topic and how it impacts our community.
Tuesday, October 15
3:00 pm – 4:30 pm
Student Success Center – Student One Stop
UNM Main Campus – Mesa Vista Hall
University Advisement and Enrichment Center Foyer
Light Refreshments
Panelist:Moderator Gene Grant, Journalist
Special Performance by Hakim Bellamy, ABQ Poet Laureate
David Shipler, Author
Dr. Veronica Garcia, Executive Director, New Mexico Voices for Children
Senator Jacob Candelaria
Jenny Metzler, Executive Director for Albuquerque Healthcare for the Homeless
Sovereign Hager, Staff Attorney for Center for Law and Poverty
Dr. Richard Santos, Professor of Economics
“Nobody who works hard should be poor in America,” writes Pulitzer Prize winner David Shipler. Clear-headed, rigorous, and compassionate, he journeys deeply into the lives of individual store clerks and factory workers, farm laborers and sweat-shop seamstresses, illegal immigrants in menial jobs and Americans saddled with immense student loans and paltry wages. They are known as the working poor”.
Special Performance by Hakim Bellamy, ABQ Poet Laureate
David Shipler, Author
Dr. Veronica Garcia, Executive Director, New Mexico Voices for Children
Senator Jacob Candelaria
Jenny Metzler, Executive Director for Albuquerque Healthcare for the Homeless
Sovereign Hager, Staff Attorney for Center for Law and Poverty
Dr. Richard Santos, Professor of Economics
“Nobody who works hard should be poor in America,” writes Pulitzer Prize winner David Shipler. Clear-headed, rigorous, and compassionate, he journeys deeply into the lives of individual store clerks and factory workers, farm laborers and sweat-shop seamstresses, illegal immigrants in menial jobs and Americans saddled with immense student loans and paltry wages. They are known as the working poor”.
For more information call: 277-7000 or 277-7763
Sponsored by: Office of Student Academic Success, Office of the Provost, Writing Across Communities, English Department, Division of Student Affairs, College Enrichment Program, Graduate Resource Center, Division for Equity and Inclusion, University Advisement Administration, Dean of Students, University College, Division of Enrollment Management, UNM Bookstore, and Introductory Studies.
Sponsored by: Office of Student Academic Success, Office of the Provost, Writing Across Communities, English Department, Division of Student Affairs, College Enrichment Program, Graduate Resource Center, Division for Equity and Inclusion, University Advisement Administration, Dean of Students, University College, Division of Enrollment Management, UNM Bookstore, and Introductory Studies.
