The 2026 Kohn Social Policy Conference brings together scholars, practitioners, policymakers, students, and community partners to examine pressing social policy challenges and explore how social policy can advance equity and promote human thriving.
Join us for a talk by Kristin Seefeldt, faculty director of Poverty Solutions at the University of Michigan and principal investigator for the Guaranteed Income to Grow Ann Arbor (GIG A2) pilot program.
Kess Ballentine, assistant professor at Wayne State University School of Social Work and a research affiliate with Labor@Wayne, will present on her community-engaged research, which examines how labor policy and working conditions shape the well-being of low-wage workers and their families.
Dana Cuff and the lab's "housing first" research demonstrates that affordable, well-designed housing and neighborhoods are attainable foundations of equitable cities.
Thomas integrates the insights of social psychology, lens of cultural psychology, and tools of behavioral science to examine and intervene upon psychosocial drivers of poverty and inequality in the U.S. and around the globe.
Join us for this panel discussion about the impact research and data can have in informing change, and celebrate Poverty Solutions' 10 Year Anniversary. Like all Real-World Perspectives on Poverty Solutions talks, this event is free and open to the public.
