WEBINAR
Policy Levers to Support Single-Mother Economic Mobility
September 8, 2025 | 12:30pm-1:30pm EST
Join us for an engaging discussion unpacking the April 2025 Urban Institute report, “Policy Levers to Support Single-Mother Economic Mobility,” with lead researcher Elaine Waxman.
In this thoughtful conversation, we’ll explore how evidence-based policy can support all families to thrive, with particular focus on the unique challenges facing single mothers and their children. We’ll examine how social determinants — including job quality, workforce development, healthcare coverage, housing affordability, and child care access — intersect to either support or hinder economic mobility.
Whether you’re a single parent, community advocate, or someone interested in supporting families through systemic change, this discussion offers valuable insights into the policy landscape that shapes economic opportunity.
Sponsored by:
speakers
CHASTITY LORD
JP President and CEO
Chastity Lord is the President and CEO of the Jeremiah Program. As a national nonprofit leader, she has dedicated her life to disrupting systems of inequity through a social justice lens in an effort to bridge the opportunity gap. Chastity has a unique mix of both practitioner and executive leadership and has spent two decades specializing in organizational development, education, college access, fundraising, and leadership development.
Chastity’s professional North Star and commitment to equity and justice for the past two decades is influenced by her own personal experience as a first-generation college graduate.
Chastity serves as Chair of the Board of Trustees for Shriver National Center on Poverty Law. She has been quoted as a thought leader in top-tier outlets including Reuters, Politico, CNN, MSNBC, The Boston Globe, The New York Times, CBS Morning, and NPR.
Elaine waxman
Senior Fellow, Tax and Income Supports Division at the Urban Institute
Elaine Waxman is a senior fellow in the Tax and Income Supports Division at the Urban Institute. Her expertise includes food insecurity, food access, federal nutrition programs, social determinants of health, and broader issues affecting families with low incomes.
She has coauthored numerous articles in peer-reviewed journals, including the Agricultural and Resource Economics Review, the American Journal of Public Health, Applied Economics Perspectives and Policy, and Health Affairs.
Waxman is a Technical Advisory Group Member for Feeding America, a research fellow with the Baylor Collaborative on Hunger and Poverty, a member of the editorial board of the Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, and a member of the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management. She is also a recipient of the inaugural William and Gail Gorham Scholar/Analyst Program and a Gorham Mentor, Class of 2024.
Would you like to attend this conversation in person?
Tuesday, September 9, 2025
Artists for Humanity | 100 W 2nd St, Boston, MA 02127
Wednesday, September 10, 2025
Parkview Lounge | 9 West 57th Street, New York, NY 10019