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21st Annual Daniel S. Sanders Lecture for International Peace and Social Justice

Speaker Tanya Tull
Date Apr 16, 2012
Time 7:30 pm  
Location Alice Campbell Alumni Center, 601 Lincoln Ave., Urbana, IL
Cost Event is free and open to the public
Sponsor School of Social Work
Contact Meredith Olson
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Tanya Tull, President/CEO of Partnering for Change: The National Institute for Innovative Strategies to Combat Family Homelessness & Poverty will present "Homelessness in the United States from a Human Rights Perspective: What We Did Wrong and How We're Trying to Fix It!" Tull, ScD, a leading expert on family homelessness, offers keen insights into faulty public policies and practice over the past three decades that led to the development of a new subclass in America, a subclass we call the homeless. She describes her personal journey over a 30-year career, the disconnect that she believes exists between human rights work and social justice efforts, and asks, Can social justice be realized without a human rights context?