Presentation
Keynote Speaker
Aligning Housing & Education Outcomes Andy Masters STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP MANAGER, KNOWLEDGE, IMPACT & STRATEGY, ENTERPRISE COMMUNITY PARTNERS
Matthew Desmond PROFESSOR OF SOCIOLOGY, PRINCETON UNIVERSITY
Andrew Masters joined Enterprise Community Partners in 2018 as the Strategic Partnerships Manager in the Knowledge, Impact and Strategy team. Prior to Enterprise, Masters led the launch and implementation of a Youth Health and Wellness Strategy out of the Baltimore City Health Department. As the Director of School Age Initiatives at Family League of Baltimore as, he oversaw the organization’s portfolio of investments and initiatives supporting children in kindergarten through eighth grade and their families. He began his career in Baltimore City Public Schools as a school counselor and was later asked to join the district administration team. Masters has a bachelor’s degree in human development and family studies and a master’s degree in counselor education from the Pennsylvania State University.
MacArthur “Genius” Matthew Desmond’s Pulitzer Prize winning bestseller Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City draws on years of embedded fieldwork and painstakingly gathered data to transform our understanding of inequity and economic exploitation in America. In addition to the Pulitzer, Evicted won the National Books Critics Circle Award, the Andrew Carnegie Medal, the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award, the Heartland Prize, and more, and was named one of the Best Books of 2016 by nearly three dozen outlets, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, and The Wall Street Journal.
GROWING UP & OUT OF POVERTY: WHY HOUSING MATTERS • 9
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