Meharry Medical College, StreetSolid Industries Host Conference Focused On Laws & Policies That Create Inequality, Discontent, Illness
Among notable speakers are: Joseph Stiglitz (Nobel Prize-winner), Thomas LaViest (Chair of Tulane’s School of Public Health), Bobby Moresco (Academy Award-winning writer of Crash), businesses -- Oracle, Alliance Bernstein, Amazon and Nissan Americas -- and organizations working with disenfranchised groups around the country: Father Greg Boyle’s Homeboy Industries from L.A., Arne Duncan's CRED from Chicago, and Nashville’s StreetSolid Industries.
- Meharry Medical College and StreetSolid Industries are hosting a conference, The Invisible Laws and Policies That Create Illness, Inequality, Disenfranchisement and Discontent in America.
- The conference will focus on the invisible laws and policies that can create illness, inequality, disenfranchisement and discontent in America, explained Dr. Vincent Morelli, professor at Meharry Medical College and professor adjunct at Vanderbilt University.
- Most of us are vaguely aware of the laws and policies that direct our lives.
- StreetSolid Industries is a nonprofit organization whose programs serve justice-involved and under-resourced youth and adults.