Wednesday, November 7, 2007 at 7 p.m.
J. Larry Brown, Why the Working Poor Go Hungry
 J. Larry Brown is the founding director of the Center on Hunger and Poverty at Brandeis University and serves as a Visiting Scholar at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH). As a member of the faculty at HSPH, Brown served as chairman of the Physician Task Force on Hunger in America, whose work prompted congressional action to address the revelations of growing hunger during the 1980s. He is the founder of the Feinstein Famine Center, a past board chair of Oxfam America, and also served as assistant director of the Peace Corps and VISTA under President Carter. Dr. Brown has written several books, including Hunger in America: The Growing Epidemic, and Living Hungry in America.
Each year government data reveal that 35 million Americans live in households that do not get enough to eat, but the reasons for this tragedy go largely unnoticed. Dr. Brown, the nation’s leading scholarly authority on hunger, will address the factors behind this shameful picture and outline what we can do to make America a nation where all people have an adequate diet.
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