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Penn School of Social Policy & Practice Hosts "Barrios, Vol. 1" Exhibit

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The University of Pennsylvania School of Social Policy & Practice's Master of Science in Social Policy program will host an art exhibit, "Barrios, Vol. 1,"' and a panel discussion on Thursday, Dec. 2, 2010, from 6 to 8 p.m. at La Rotunda, 4014 Walnut St.  The event is free and open to the public.
 
"Barrios, Vol. 1," 25 Carlos Beltrán black-and-white photographs, captures the realities of life in dire poverty in Caracas, Venezuela.
 
The panel includes Beltrán, Philippe Bourgois, a Penn Integrates Knowledge Professor, and Temple University's Naomi Schiller, who has studied Venezuela.  Ezekiel Dixon-Román, an assistant professor at the School of Social Policy & Practice and director of its newest program, the Latino Social Services and Policy Initiative, will be the panel moderator.
 
Other co-sponsors of "Barrios, Vol. 1" is are the Latino Social Service & Policy Initiative, the Latino Graduate and Professional Student Assembly, the School's Graduate Student Hispanic/Latino Alliance for Change and Equity, the Latin American and Latino Studies Program and La Casa Latina.
 
In this video, Dr. Dixon- Román and Karla Sainz, a student in the Master of Science in Social Policy program and the event organizer, discuss "Barrios, Vol. 1" and how social policy has the ability to create global change.
 
To RSVP for this event, e-mail [email protected], or you can RSVP via Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=16889377980537.
 
For additional information about the event, here's a link to a press release: 
http://www.upenn.edu/pennnews/news/penn-school-social-policy-practice-explores-venezuelan-slums-barrios-vol-1-photo-exhibit.
 
For information about Penn's School of Social Policy & Practice:
http://www.sp2.upenn.edu/.
 
For information about the Master of Science in Social Policy program:
http://www.sp2.upenn.edu/programs/mssp/index.html.
 
For more information on the panel's moderator, Dr. Ezekiel Dixon-Romàn: http://www.sp2.upenn.edu/people/faculty/dixon-roman/index.html.
 
For more information on panelist Dr. Philippe Bourgois:
http://www.sas.upenn.edu/anthro/people/bourgois.

For information on Penn's School of Arts and Sciences: http://www.sas.upenn.edu/.

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