Professor Lisa Pruitt and Rebecca Williams '19 Give Presentations on Rural Poverty

Together Professor Lisa Pruitt and Rebecca Williams, Class of 2019, attended two conferences to present their research. The first stop was at the Rural Poverty: Fifty Years After The People Left Behind conference held at the National Associations of Counties in Washington, D.C. There they presented their poster “Safety Net Work Requirements State by State.” 

 

Then, on March 23, Professor Pruitt and Williams presented "States Rights and State Wrongs: Safety Net Work Requirements as a Mismatch in Rural America,” at American University Washington College of Law. The presentation took place at the Poverty States: Federalism, Rights and State Anti-Poverty Efforts conference.

 

Professor Pruitt, Martin Luther King, Jr. Professor at UC Davis School of Law, is a scholar whose recent work explores the legal relevance of rural spatiality, including how it inflects dimensions of gender, race, and ethnicity. Pruitt's work also considers rural-urban difference in transnational and international contexts.