“Ending Poverty: America’s Silent Spaces” – Los Angeles Town Hall

The Tavis Smiley Foundation recently hosted a town hall meeting at The California Endowment in Los Angeles as part of the foundation’s four-year initiative, “Ending Poverty: America’s Silent Spaces”. In these excerpts, you’ll hear from Dr. Elaine Batchlor, chief executive officer of Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Hospital in South Los Angeles; Maria Brenes, executive director of InnerCity Struggle; Dr. Jonathan Fielding, director of the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health; Marqueece Harris-Dawson, president and CEO of the Community Coalition; and Manuel Pastor, professor of American Studies & Ethnicity at the University of Southern California and director of the Program for Environmental and Regional Equity at USC.