Dasani Coates, a child with an imagination as soaring as the skyscrapers near her Brooklyn homeless shelter grew up in the shadows of New York’s second “Gilded Age.” Dasani’s story has become emblematic of one of America’s most wicked problems: homelessness.
The John Adams Institute is delighted to welcome Pulitzer Prize winner Andrea Elliott, investigative reporter for the New York Times whose work documents the lives of people on the margins of power. Based on nearly a decade of reporting, Andrea Elliott’s 2022 Pulitzer winning book, Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City, follows eight dramatic years in Dasani’s life, where the disparity between those with wealth and power and those without is rapidly growing.
Andrea Elliott is the first woman to win individual Pulitzer Prizes in both Journalism and Arts & Letters.
“This book is so many things: a staggering feat of reporting, an act of profound civic love, an extraordinarily moving tale about the fierceness of family love, and above all, a future American classic.” – Ayad Akhtar, author of Homeland Elegies
This event is a collaboration with the Stichting Verhalende Journalistiek (Gerard van Westerloo Lecture) and is sponsored by Aegon. A portion of the proceeds of Invisible Child will go to helping Dasani’s family and others like them. For donations, please click here.
