Middle Class Poverty Politics: Making Place, Making People Victoria Lawson & Sarah Elwood, University of Washington
Victoria Lawson is a Professor of Geography at the
University of Washington. Lawson is the co-founder of the
Relational Poverty Network (with Sarah Elwood); Past-President of
the Association of American Geographers (AAG); Marsha Landolt
Distinguished Graduate Mentor Award winner; Director of the UW
Honors Program, former Chair of the Department of Geography at
the University of Washington, and committed teacher.
Sarah Elwood is a Professor of Geography at the University
of Washington. Elwood’s work contributes to urban geography,
relational poverty research, critical GIS & geoweb studies, and
mixed/visual methods. Current activities include co-directing the
Relational Poverty Network with Vicky Lawson and comparative
research on middle class poverty politics in mixed income
residential neighborhoods in Buenos Aires and Seattle.
In November 2014, the Center hosted the conference “Poverty and
Place,” which focused on the implications of geography and
population density have for poverty. This conference brought
together a unique mix of researchers, policy professionals and
industry leaders to discuss their work studying the people,
geography, and the safety net as it relates to persistent
poverty.
