Claudia Rowe: 2026 Poverty Studies Distinguished Lecture
Schedule
Tue, 21 Apr, 2026 at 05:00 pm
UTC-04:00Location
Geddes Hall, Notre Dame, IN, United States, Indiana 46556 | Notre Dame, IN
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Join the Institute for Social Concerns for the 2026 Poverty Studies Distinguished Lecture with Claudia Rowe at 5:00 p.m. Tuesday, April 21 in the Andrews Auditorium of Geddes Hall at the University of Notre Dame.Reception and book signing to follow!
Claudia Rowe has been writing about the places where youth and government policy clash for 34 years. She is the recipient of a Casey Medal for Meritorious Journalism and multiple honors for investigative reporting. Her work has been twice nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in journalism. Claudia has been published in The New York Times, The Seattle Times, Mother Jones, and The Stranger. In 2018, Claudia’s memoir, The Spider and the Fly, won the Washington State Book Award.
In her most recent book, Wards of the State: The Long Shadow of American Foster Care, Rowe’s storytelling is both vivid and unflinching, offering readers a deep understanding of the foster care-to-prison pipeline. Through interviews with psychologists, advocates, judges, and the former foster children themselves, Rowe paints a heartbreaking picture of the lives shaped by this broken system.
This lecture is co-sponsored by the Department of American Studies; the Department of History; the Department of Sociology; the Education, Schooling and Society Program; the Gallivan Program in Journalism, Ethics, and Democracy; the Gender Studies Program; the Initiative on Race and Resilience, and the William J. Shaw Center for Children and Families.
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