The Center for Ozarks Poverty Research at MSU is inviting students and community members to its second annual conference event April 11th, to be held at MSU, in Karls Hall Room 101, from 2 - 6pm. The event is free, but registration is required.

The afternoon will feature author, Dr. Brian Goldstone (bio below). His new book, "There is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America" was published in March. The first 100 registrants will receive a free copy of Dr. Goldstone's new book thanks to sponsors The MSU Student Government Association, The Reynolds College of Arts Humanities and Social Sciences, National Avenue Christian Church, Community Foundation of the Ozarks, and KPM CPAs.

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Brian Goldstone is a journalist and author of There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America. Told through the lives of five families in Atlanta, the book traces the rise of America’s “working homeless,” exposing the forces—gentrification, racialized displacement, precarious low-wage labor—fueling a deepening crisis of housing insecurity. It will be published by Crown in March 2025.

His longform reporting and essays have appeared in Harper's, The New Republic, The California Sunday Magazine, Guernica, and Jacobin, among other publications. He has written about psychiatric care in Ghana, life after incarceration, the plight of chronic pain sufferers during an opioid epidemic, Israel's secretive campaign to deport African asylum seekers, and, most recently, homelessness and housing precarity. He is editor of African Futures: Essays on Crisis, Emergence, and Possibility. In 2019, he co-organized the symposium “Uncertain States: Narrative Journalism and Its Limits” at the Columbia School of Journalism.
Brian received his PhD in anthropology from Duke University. In 2017-2018, he was a Luce/ACLS Fellow in Journalism, Religion & International Affairs; prior to this, he was a Mellon Research Fellow in the Society of Fellows at Columbia University. He is the recipient of grants and fellowships from New America, Fulbright, the Wenner-Gren Foundation, and the American Council of Learned Societies. In 2015-2016, as a Justice-in-Education Fellow at Columbia, he taught at Sing Sing prison.