Fordham GSS doctoral program alumni Antoine Lovell, Ph.D., GSS ’22, was recently featured as a guest on the On the Way Home podcast, a show dedicated to bringing together the voices and issues involved in ending homelessness in Canada.
On the episode, Lovell discussed his own experience of homelessness on the subways of New York City; the importance of having the voices of lived experience at the table when developing policy; the intersection of race, racism, and homelessness; and the incredible new research he is heading up as the recipient of the prestigious William T. Grant Foundation grant.
In his time at GSS, Lovell completed his dissertation titled “How Emerging Adults with Multiple Generations in Public Housing Perceive their Future: Implications for Social Policy and Social Services.” This research explored how to support emerging adults in their development-specific goals, particularly regarding their future and its outlook, by questioning how the intergenerational transmission of housing status influences how emerging adults perceive resources available to them and how previous generations influence the perception of the future.
Lovell’s appearance on On the Way Home is far from his first time offering expert insight to mainstream media. In October 2022, he appeared in the ABC documentary Our America: Living While Black. The series’ aim was to “go beyond the statistics to explore inequalities facing Black families across the country in institutions related to policing, health care, education and housing.”
