Villa Esperanza invites you to attend “Impact of Global Financial Crisis in Impoverished Communities Abroad,” the 2nd lecture of our lecture series.

*When: Monday, May 18, 6:30PM*
*Where: Caffe Medici on 2222-B Guadalupe*
*Who: Dr. Gwen Sullivan*

How is the global financial crisis unfolding in impoverished communities
around the world? How are households responding to the immediate impacts
on their livelihoods and their access to basic goods and services? Dr. Gwen Sullivan will
locate local accounts of crisis within the broader story of inequality in
power and wealth in today’s global economy.  She will draw on the preliminary
findings of participatory researchers in six countries.

Gwen Sullivan teaches in the Global Understanding Program at St. Edward’s
University. She is also a Research Fellow at the Institute of Latin American
Studies at the University of Texas. Gwen lived and worked in Nicaragua during
much of the 1980s and ‘90s. She received her doctorate from the Institute
of Development Studies at the University of Sussex, UK.