Poverty, Policy, and People, organized by Maria Cancian and Mary Pattillo, will celebrate and explore the contributions to scholarship and professional development of the University of Michigan’s Research and Training Program on Poverty and Public Policy, directed for a quarter of a century by Danziger. As you may know, Danziger was named the new President of the Russell Sage Foundation and started his new position in August 2013.

The conference will feature four research panels on the topics of Poverty and Welfare; Race and Immigration; Inequality and Mobility; and Children and Families. The program will also include a keynote address delivered by former Ford School dean, Rebecca M. Blank, Chancellor of the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and Professor of Economics and Public Affairs, followed by dinner with a tribute to Danziger, and a closing lunch with remarks by Melvin Oliver, SAGE Sara Miller McCune Dean of Social Sciences, Executive Dean of the College of Letters and Sciences, and Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara.