“When I left Milwaukee, and I had all these stories. I felt so responsible for people. It's a heck of a thing to do, to try to write someone's story.”

Evanston-based sociologist and MacArthur Fellow, Desmond is an authority on housing insecurity in the United States. His work, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning *Evicted*, exposes systemic barriers to stable housing and their ripple effects on families and communities.