The Effects of Gentrification on Chicago's Communities
Date: Tuesday, February 26, 2008 at 6pm in Harper 140 [1116 E. 59th Street, Chicago, IL 60637]

Participants
Jamie Kalven [Writer, Invisible Institute]
Tom Walsh [Director of Advocacy and Public Policy, Jewish Council on Urban Affiars]
Victoria Romero [President of the Board, Pilsen Alliance]
Moderator: Virginia Parks [Assistant Professor, School of Social Service Administration, University of Chicago]

Participant Bios:
Jamie Kalven is a writer and human rights activist. He is the author of Working With Available Light: A Family's World After Violence and the editor of A Worthy Tradition: Free Speech in America by Harry Kalven, Jr. His reporting on patterns of police abuse in Chicago is available at viewfromtheground.com. He serves as advisor to the resident councils at the Stateway Gardens and Henry Horner public housing developments.

Virginia Parks is an Assistant Professor at the School of Social Service Administration. Her fields of special interest include urban geography, urban labor markets, immigration, racial and gender inequality, residential segregation, and community organizing and development. She teaches courses at SSA in policy formulation and implementation and in community organizing and development. A central concern informing Professor Parks's research and teaching is how local communities can respond to these patterns of inequality through various organizing and development efforts.

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