Legislative Opportunity: Learn, Network, Collaborate, Advocate.

Blueprint to Ending Poverty

Friday, December 06, 2019    12:30 PM - 04:00 PM

Hamline University Anderson Center  774 Snelling Ave N, St Paul, MN 55104, USA

In 2009, Minnesota Legislature Commission to End Poverty created a report with a pathway to end poverty in Minnesota by 2020.

What has worked? What hasn't? What do we need to do next?

We will examine poverty from the perspective of courts, nonprofit organizations, corrections, and personal experience. CEU’s available. For more information and to register click here

Speakers:

Jim Scheibel

Former St. Paul Mayor and Professor at Hamline University

Catherine Johnson

Director of Hennepin County Dept. of Community Corrections and Rehabilitation

Andrew Gordon

Associate Director of The Legal Rights Center

Julia Dinsmore

Personal Experience

Representative Carlos Mariani

Minnesota Representative for District 65B

Senator John Marty

Minnesota State Senator representing District 66

Senator Jim Abeler

Minnesota State Senator representing District 35

Legislative Co-Chairs: Sally Baas and Marilyn Leifgren