Growing Apart: The Implications of Economic Inequality
April 8–9, 2016


Senator Elizabeth Warren
Elizabeth Warren is an AmericanÌýacademicÌýandÌýpolitician, who is the seniorÌýU.S. SenatorÌýfromÌýMassachusetts. She is a member of theÌýDemocratic Party, and was previously aÌýHarvard Law SchoolÌýprofessor specializing inÌýbankruptcy law. A prominent legal scholar, Warren was among the most cited in the field ofÌýcommercial lawÌýwhile at Harvard University. She is an activeÌýconsumer protectionÌýadvocate whose scholarship led to the conception and establishment of the U.S.ÌýConsumer Financial Protection Bureau. Warren has written a number of academic and popular works, and is a frequent subject of media interviews regarding the American economy and personal finance.

Victor Tan Chen
Victor Tan Chen is a sociology professor at Virginia Commonwealth University who studies economic inequality. He is the author ofÌýCut Loose: Jobless and Hopeless in an Unfair Economy, andÌýThe Missing Class: Portraits of the Near Poor in America, one of the top-selling sociology books of recent years. Chen’s work has been featured in the New York Times, NPR, BÂÒÂ×С¿É°® News, Atlantic Monthly, the Boston Globe, and C-SPAN’s Book TV. Chen received his degrees from Harvard University and was a National Science Foundation postdoctoral fellow at the University of California, Berkeley.

Shaji George Kochuthara
Shaji George Kochuthara, CMI, teaches moral theology at Dharmaram Vidya Kshetram (DVK) (Pontifical Athenaeum of Theology, Philosophy and Canon Law), Bangalore, India. He has publishedÌýThe Concept of Sexual Pleasure in the Catholic Moral TraditionÌýand writes on ethics of sex and gender, globalization, and economic life. He is the editor-in-chief of Asian Horizons: Dharmaram Journal of Theology and the Chairperson of the Institutional Ethical Review Board of St. John's Medical College, Bangalore. Dr. Kochuthara is a visiting scholar in residence at ÂÒÂ×С¿É°®'s Jesuit Institute for the spring semester.