RPN Broader Impacts Our international and cross-disciplinary group includes sociologists, geographers, political scientists, historians, anthropologists and economists who will organize and participate in conferences, publish papers and seek research funding to expand the RPN. The network will have a variety of broad impacts, drawing in a diversity of mainstream and relational poverty researchers (generation, discipline, gender, ethnicity, country of origin) into a social science infrastructure. As discussed above, we involve undergraduate and graduate students as well as faculty from under-represented groups in all activities. Current U.S. members of RPN include women and people from diverse economic and ethnic backgrounds who will have an invaluable opportunity to be involved in building a research network and learning how to engage in international collaboration. The RPN will disseminate research and educational resources broadly, both through our own website, publications and meetings as
