Stephen Pimpare is a nationally recognized expert on poverty, homelessness, and U.S. social policy, and has appeared on NPR, CNN, MSNBC, CBS, CBC, Al Jazeera, PRI, Pacifica Radio, and Democracy Now.

Prior to joining the University of New Hampshire in 2015, where he teaches courses on American politics and public policy, he served as a senior-level administrator for anti-hunger organizations in New York City, and taught at the City University of New York, NYU, and Columbia University. His second book, A People's History of Poverty in America, received the Michael Harrington Award from the American Political Science Association “for demonstrating how scholarship can be used in the struggle for a better world.”

His newest book is Ghettos, Tramps, and Welfare Queens: Down & Out on the Silver Screen (Oxford University Press 2017), a history of poverty and homelessness in the movies.

Professor Pimpare is host of the New Books Network’s Public Policy Channel, a Consulting Editor for the journal Social Work, and the founding director of the UNHM Center for Community Engagement and Experiential Learning.

He is available for talks on a variety of politics-, policy- and poverty-related topics.