1. Faculty moderator: Amy Kind, MD, PhD
Go Big Read Panel Discussion
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
Faculty moderator: Amy Kind, MD, PhD

2. Panelists
Sami Kordonowy, MSW, Housing & Hope Case Manager, The Road Home Dane County
Amy Noble, MSW, Social Worker, Madison Metropolitan School District Transition Education Program
Revel Sims, PhD, Assistant Professor, UW-Madison Department of Urban & Regional Planning
Reka Sundaram-Stukel, PhD, Health Economist, Wisconsin Department of Health Services, Division of Public Health

3. Road Map Introduction Brief Video Introduction of Panelists
Scripted Questions for Panelists
Open Question and Answer Session

4. Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
Author Matthew Desmond earned his PhD at UW-Madison in 2010
He is currently a faculty member at Harvard & co-directs the Justice and Poverty Project
Evicted (2016) is based on years of fieldwork & data analysis
On April 10, 2017, Evicted was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-fiction

5. Wisconsin Statistics
WI poverty rate at 30-year high
~20,000 people are homeless in WI on any given night; the number continues to rise (Wisconsin Coalition Against Homelessness, 2016)
>12,000 low-income households with secure housing in Dane County spend in excess of 50% of household income on rent

6. Neighborhood Disadvantage: Wisconsin

7. Neighborhood Disadvantage: Milwaukee

8. Neighborhood Disadvantage: United States

9. Video: Housing Is Health Care
University of Vermont Medical Center
(0:49 to 4:37)

10. Introduction of Panelists

11. Panelists
Sami Kordonowy, MSW, Housing & Hope Case Manager, The Road Home Dane County. Ms. Kordonwy earned her bachelor’s in Social Work at UW- Madison, and MSW in Social and Economic Development at Washington University in St. Louis. She has been with The Road Home Dane County since 2013, where she is the on-site case manager for 15 units of permanent supportive housing on Madison’s west side.

12. Panelists
Amy Noble, MSW, Social Worker, Madison Metropolitan School District Transition Education Program (TEP) Ms. Noble earned her bachelor’s in Psychology at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota, and MSW at Loyola University of Chicago. She has served as a school social worker at the Madison Metropolitan School District for the past 18 years. She works with the TEP, which reduces barriers to school enrollment and achievement so that children from families who are experiencing homelessness have a full and equal opportunity to succeed in school. In , a total of 1,414 MMSD students identified as homeless (5.2% of the student body), up 89% since 2008–09.

13. Panelists
Revel Sims, PhD, Assistant Professor, UW-Madison Department of Urban & Regional Planning Dr. Sims obtained his PhD in 2014 from the Department of Urban Planning at University of California Los Angeles. His dissertation, ‘It was like dancing on a grave’: Eviction and Displacement in Los Angeles to 1999, is an analysis of displacement during the pivotal decade of the 1990s that employs a spatial analysis of over 70,000 eviction cases. In fall 2016, he co-authored a report entitled “Evicted in Dane County, Wisconsin: A Collaborative Examination of the Housing Landscape” in collaboration with the Tenant Resource Center in Madison, WI.

14. Panelists
Reka Sundaram-Stukel, PhD, Health Economist, Wisconsin Department of Health Services, Division of Public Health Dr. Sundaram-Stukel earned her bachelor’s degree in Astronomy and Physics, and MA, MS, and PhD in Agricultural and Applied Economics from UW-Madison. She has consulted for UW-Madison’s Land Tenure Center, the World Council of Credit Unions, and the World Bank, and speaks seven different languages. Dr. Sundaram-Stukel is currently with the Health Informatics team of the Wisconsin DHS Division of Public Health.

15. Question 1
How have you seen poverty and/or housing impact health?

16. Question 2
What are the factors that help individuals living in poverty achieve better health?

17. Question 3
How might health professionals meaningfully improve the health of individuals living in poverty?

18. Open Q&A Session Continue the conversation: Resources handout
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