Book Chat with Richard D. Kahlenberg

Join us on October 15th for a discussion and audience Q&A with Richard D. Kahlenberg, winner of the 2023 Goddard Riverside Stephan Russo Book Prize for Social Justice for Excluded: How Snob Zoning, NIMBYism, and Class Bias Build the Walls We Don’t See.

The event will begin at 5:30 PM at Fordham University in the Lowenstein 12th floor lounge (113 West 60th Street).

Richard D. Kahlenberg is an education and housing policy researcher, writer, consultant, and speaker.

He is also the Director of Housing Policy and Director of the American Identity Project at the Progressive Policy Institute. In addition, he is a professorial lecturer at George Washington University's Trachtenberg School of Public Policy and Public Administration. He was recently featured in a front-page New York Times profile on his policy work as a "liberal maverick."

Kahlenberg’s articles have been published in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, the Atlantic, the New Republic, and elsewhere. He has appeared on ABC, CBS, CNN, FOX, MSNBC, PBS, and NPR.

Kahlenberg has been a nonresident scholar at Georgetown University's McCourt School of Public Policy, a Senior Fellow at The Century Foundation, a Fellow at the Center for National Policy, a visiting associate professor of constitutional law at George Washington University, and a legislative assistant to Senator Charles S. Robb (D-VA).

His work has been supported by leading foundations including Broad, Jack Kent Cooke, Ford, Gates, Hewlett, Lumina, Nellie Mae, Spencer, Walton, and W.T. Grant.

He serves on the advisory boards of the Pell Institute and the Albert Shanker Institute. He is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School.

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