Defining and Measuring Poverty in New York

New York City Deputy Mayor Linda Gibbs, pictured at right, was the keynote speaker at a recent conference on fighting poverty held at the Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service. Entitled “More than Income: Defining and Measuring Poverty in New York City,” the conference was sponsored by the New York Women’s Foundation in partnership with the Women of Color Policy Network, a research center at Wagner.

Panelists included numerous experts, among them Wagner professor Walter Stafford, principal investigator with the Women of Color Policy Network; Merble Reagon, executive director of the Women’s Center for Education and Career Advancement; Sarah Burd-Sharps, co-director of the American Human Development Index Report; and Veronica M. White, executive director of NYC Center for Economic Opportunity. The moderator was Gail B. Nayowith, executive director, Laurie M. Tisch Foundation.