Child hunger expert Mariana ChiltonEVENT ANNOUNCEMENT

DATE: 7:30 p.m. Sept. 27, 2012

EVENT: Mariana Chilton, a nationally recognized expert on child hunger in America, will deliver the University of Michigan Vivian R. Shaw Lecture, “Witnesses to Hunger: How Mothers Living in Poverty Are Demanding Economic Justice.”

The Vivian R. Shaw lecture is endowed by U-M alumna Ellen Agress in memory of her mother. The free public lecture is part of the program to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the founding of the U-M Women’s Studies Department.

Chilton, an associate professor at the Drexel University School of Public Health in Philadelphia, directs the Center for Hunger-Free Communities, which develops solutions to the challenges of hunger and economic insecurity. She also is co-principal investigator of Children’s Health Watch, a surveillance study that monitors the health and well-being of young children under the age of four.

Chilton founded the award-winning Witnesses to Hunger, to increase women’s participation in the national dialogue on hunger and poverty. Witnesses to Hunger is a multi-city network of mothers of young children committed to ending childhood hunger and to breaking the cycle of poverty.

She also has testified before Congress on the importance of child nutrition programs and other anti-poverty policies and has served as an adviser to Sesame Street and the Institute of Medicine.

PLACE: Stern Auditorium, U-M Museum of Art, 525 S. State St. Ann Arbor

SPONSORS: Women’s Studies Department and the Institute for Research on Women and Gender

INFORMATION: Donna Ainsworth, (734) 647-0774 or donna@umich.edu

Related Links:

• Center for Hunger-Free Communities Witnesses to Hunger: www.centerforhungerfreecommunities.org/our-projects/witnesses-hunger
• Children’s Health Watch: www.childrenshealthwatch.org