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IU McKinney 3L to Present at Prestigious Berkeley Law Conference
02/27/2023
A paper written by IU McKinney 3L Andrea Kalasountas was chosen for presentation during the Poverty Law Conference at UC Berkeley School of Law.
Kalasountas wrote “Ending the Multibillionaire: A Solution to Poverty and Violations of the Right to Health” for Professor Fran Quigley’s Health and Human Rights course during the fall 2021 semester. In the piece, she notes that as of April 2021, the combined wealth of America’s billionaires was nearly double that of the wealth of the bottom half of all Americans: $4.56 trillion vs. $2.62 trillion. Calling poverty a public health crisis, she proposes ending multibillionaires by utilizing the public nuisance argument.
“My passion and dedication to finding solutions to the ever-growing poverty crisis in America pre-dates law school,” Kalasountas said. “Since graduating college in 2014, I have been committed to serving the poorest of my community as a social worker, educator, and child-care provider at a shelter for domestically abused women.”
The conference, with a theme of “Poverty Law: Where Do We Go from Here?” is March 10 and 11.
