Talk

BFA Visual and Critical Studies and the Honors Program welcomes back Frances Fox Piven—political scientist, activist and, according to Glenn Beck, one of the “nine most dangerous people in the world”—on the first anniversary of the inauguration, to analyze the first year of Trump's second Presidency and the state of the democracy.

Frances Fox Piven, Professor Emerita of Politics at CUNY, has been among the most incisive, humane and engaged voices on the left for decades in the struggle for voter rights, welfare rights, working peoples rights and social reform. She is the co-founder of the National Welfare Rights Organization and the author of Challenging Authority: How Ordinary People Change America, Poor Peoples Movements, Regulating the Poor and Why Americans Don’t Vote. She has spoken annually at SVA on social movements and electoral politics since 2016.