Speaking

I always enjoy talking about my work – and welcome any inquiries about having me visit as a speaker.

I’m represented by the BrightSight Group if interested in having me speak at your event. Please contact [email protected]. Or I can be reached at [email protected]

A keynote I delivered in September 2025 at an AI conference sponsored by the U.C.-Berkeley Law School

Talking AI at U.C-Berkeley

“You were the highlight of our conference.”

Kate Little after I gave a keynote at a housing conference she organized in Atlanta

Here I’m talking with Terry Gross of “Fresh Air”:

Turning Poverty Into a Multibillion Dollar Business

Here I’m speaking with Dave Davies of “Fresh Air”:

Nearly Three Years After Dodd-Frank, Reforms Happen Slowly

And here I’m talking to New York Times book editor, Pamela Paul, about KATRINA: After the Flood

Gary Rivlin’s ‘Katrina: After the Flood’

A virtual talk I gave about my book,
Saving Main Street, in 2022

Here’s a talk I gave that was first broadcast on CSPAN on August 29, 2015, which was the tenth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. I also was a featured speaker that day at Rising Tide X, an annual conference about the future of New Orleans.

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I gave around 20 speeches about the poverty industry in the years after publishing my book, BROKE, USA, including a talk at the Federal Reserve and Notre Dame’s Center for Social Concerns. Here I’m speaking at the Cleveland City Club.

Cleveland City Club

Here I’m giving a talk at the New America Foundation in Washington, DC