Matthew Desmond
Princeton sociologist Matthew Desmond is the author of five books, including Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City, which won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award. An expert on housing, economic inequality, and public policy, he is the primary investigator of The Eviction Lab, a contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine, and a MacArthur “Genius” fellow. Politico has listed him as one of “fifty people across the country who are most influencing the national political debate.”
