Appendix A
Public Meeting Agendas
COMMITTEE ON POLICIES AND PROGRAMS TO REDUCE INTERGENERATIONAL POVERTY
Virtual
JANUARY 22, 2022
SESSION 1—OPEN
Objectives
To engage experts and leaders from Native American communities and organizations so they may:
- Offer a landscape view of intergenerational poverty and mobility in their communities and among the populations they work with;
- Discuss key barriers and obstacles they see affecting Native American families that are reducing the chances their children grow up to be happy, healthy and prosperous adults;
- Discuss any promising tribal efforts, including programs, models, community-led responses, that support upward economic mobility for families and the next generation;
- Shed light on the resilience and strengths of Native American communities to address intergenerational poverty.
| 12:00–1:15 |
A Conversation with Tribal Leaders on Intergenerational Poverty |
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KEVIN KILLER, President, Oglala Sioux Tribe |
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CHERYL CRAZY BULL, President and CEO, American Indian College Fund |
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JUDITH LEBLANC, Director, Native Organizers Alliance |
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Facilitator: JOE HOBOT, President and CEO, American Indian OIC |
SESSION 2—OPEN
INTERGENERATIONAL POVERTY AND MOBILITY AMONG NATIVE AMERICANS: DATA & TRENDS
Objectives
To inform the committee on:
- Empirical dimensions of intergenerational poverty and mobility of Native American populations in the United States;
- High-priority gaps in the data needed to help develop effective policies for reducing intergenerational poverty among Native Americans;
- Key historical and structural factors that have shaped economic opportunity and mobility for Native Americans.
| 1:15–2:15 |
C. MATT SNIPP, Burnet C. and Mildred Finley Wohlford Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences; Director, Institute for Research in the Social Sciences’ Secure Data Center, Stanford University |
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EMILIA SIMEONOVA, Professor, Johns Hopkins University, National Bureau of Economic Research |
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Facilitator: GREG DUNCAN, Committee Chair |
JANUARY 25, 2022
SESSION 3—OPEN
A CONVERSATION WITH RESEARCHERS: DRIVERS AND INTERVENTIONS OF INTERGENERATIONAL POVERTY AMONG NATIVE AMERICANS
Objectives
To inform the committee on:
- Correlates and drivers of the perpetuation of poverty from childhood into adulthood among Native Americans in the United States, including structural factors contributing to intergenerational poverty;
- Promising policies and programs, and their supporting evidence, to reduce the chances that Native American children will be poor as adults;
- High-priority gaps in the research, on drivers and interventions of intergenerational poverty among Native Americans, needed to help develop effective strategies to reduce intergenerational poverty in this population.
| 12:00–1:15 |
MATT GREGG, Senior Economist, Center for Indian Country Development, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis |
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MEGAN BANG, Professor, Learning Sciences and Psychology, Northwestern University; Senior Vice President, Spencer Foundation |
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BETH REDBIRD, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Northwestern University |
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KARINA L. WALTERS, Professor, Katherine Hall Chambers Scholar, Co-director, Indigenous Wellness Research Institute, University of Washington |
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Facilitator: STEPHANIE FRYBERG, Committee Member |
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