Professor Pruitt Speaks at Relational Poverty Network Annual Meeting

Professor Lisa R. Pruitt spoke on October 10 at the Relational Poverty Network 2014 Annual Meeting at the University of Washington. Her talk was entitled "Illustrating Poverty in Constitutional Litigation."

The Relational Poverty Network seeks to expand poverty research by bringing scholars, students, activists and policy-makers from diverse theoretical and methodological traditions, disciplines, and countries together into new conversations emphasizing a relational approach to poverty.  

Lisa R. Pruitt is a professor at UC Davis School of Law whose recent scholarship explores the legal relevance of rural spatiality, including how it inflects dimensions of gender, race, and ethnicity.  Pruitt's work also considers rural-urban difference in transnational and international contexts.