Virtual General Meeting featuring. Dr. David Snow, Distinguished Professor of Sociology at UCI

HOMELESSNESS: ORANGE COUNTY & BEYOND

Guest speaker:  Dr. David Snow
Distinguished Professor of Sociology at UCI

Dr. David Snow, a renowned researcher of the social psychology of extreme poverty and homelessness, will discuss the causes of homelessness, who the homeless are, the challenges of living on the streets, and the costs of homelessness to Orange County.

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About our speaker

David A. Snow is a recently retired Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Irvine, which he joined in 2001 following appointments at the University of Texas, Austin, and the University of Arizona. He has authored or co-authored well over 100 articles and chapters on homelessness, social movements and protest, religious conversion, framing processes, identity, and qualitative research methods in a range of sociological and social science journals, and 10 books including the award-winning Down on Their Luck: A Study of Homeless Street People (with L. Anderson). Professor Snow has conducted research on homelessness in numerous cities throughout the country, including Orange County, where he and Dr. Rachel Goldberg recently conducted a study of homelessness and its costs in the county. The study was co-sponsored by OC United Way, Jamboree Housing, and UCI. Professor Snow is past President of the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction and the Pacific Sociological Association, a past Vice President of the American Sociological Association, and a recipient of numerous scholarly awards. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of Families Forward in Irvine and Share Our Selves (SOS) in Costa Mesa, and is a member of the Newport Beach City Council Ad Hoc Committee on Homelessness

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