ANN ARBOR—Sen. Paul Wellstone of Minnesota and best-selling author Jill Nelson will be the featured speakers at the second annual “Trapped by Poverty/Trapped by Abuse” conference at the University of Michigan April 16-18.

The conference, at the Michigan League, is sponsored by the U-M Project on Welfare, Work and Domestic Violence, and will focus on the relationship of domestic violence, work and welfare, along with new research, service delivery approaches and policy implications.

Wellstone, a national leader in the effort to prevent domestic violence and an outspoken critic of the 1996 Welfare Bill, will speak at 10 a.m. April 17.

Nelson, author of the books “Volunteer Slavery: My Authentic Negro Experience” and “Straight, No Chaser: How I Became a Grown-Up Black Woman,” will discuss “Everyday Violence: Gender and Race, Poverty and Abuse” at 10:30 a.m. April 18.

Conference registration, which is $45, begins at noon April 16. Sessions begin that day at 2:30 p.m. and run 8:45 a.m.-4:45 p.m. April 17 and 8:45 a.m.-noon April 18. Continental breakfasts on April 17-18 and a cocktail party on April 16 afternoon also will be included. For more information, contact Richard Tolman at [email protected] or Tina Ing at [email protected].

The U-M Project on Welfare, Work and Domestic Violence is a collaborative project of the Taylor Institute in Chicago and the U-M Research Center on Poverty, Risk and Mental Health.

Volunteer Slavery: My Authentic Negro ExperienceRichard Tolman