Sociologist Dr. Katherine Newman, an expert on poverty in America, will speak at Berea College on Oct 9.  In her talk, Newman will address the issues of “The New Poor, the Real Poor, and the Desperately Poor.”

The program is scheduled for 3 p.m. in Phelps Stokes Auditorium and is the annual Crowden Lecture, co- sponsored by Berea’s sociology department.  Admission is free and open to the public.

“No Shame in My Game,” Newman’s book about the working poor in the inner city, won the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award and C. Wright Mills Awards and was a finalist in the Sidney Hillman Foundation prize in 2000.  Newman is the author of seven additional books as well and has written on topics ranging from urban poverty to middle class economic insecurity to school violence.   She has appeared on CNN’s Morning Show, the Oprah Winfrey Show, ABC- Nightline and Good Morning America among other programs.

Newman is the Malcolm Forbes Professor of Sociology and Director of the Institute for International and Regional Studies at Princeton University.  She also teaches courses in public affairs. Newman received her Bachelor’s degree in Sociology and Philosophy at the University of California, San Diego and her Ph.D. in Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley.