Join Open Society-Baltimore and the Enoch Pratt Free Library for Writers LIVE with New Press author Peter Edelman. Edelman, the Carmack Waterhouse Professor of Law and Public Policy and the faculty director of the Center on Poverty and Inequality at Georgetown University Law Center, specializes in the fields of poverty, welfare, juvenile justice, and constitutional law. He worked for Senator Robert F. Kennedy and for the Clinton administration, where he resigned to protest President Clinton’s signing of the welfare reform legislation.

Edelman will be discussing his book Not a Crime to Be Poor: The Criminalization of Poverty in America with Lester Spence, associate professor of political science and Africana studies at Johns Hopkins University and co-director of the Center for Africana Studies.

The event is free and open to the public, but registration is required. Register here.