First WMCAT 20/20 speaker – Manuel Pastor
On November 12, 2020, attendees will hear from our first content contributor to the WMCAT 20/20 series, Dr. Manuel Pastor on Looking Forward: Equity, Growth, and Community in a Changing (and Divided) America.
In the meantime, check out the op-ed released in March 2020 by Pastor and his colleague and co-author Chris Brenner, that applies solidarity economics to the Coronavirus crisis and beyond.
See more of the WMCAT 20/20 schedule here.
About Manuel Pastor
Dr. Manuel Pastor is a Distinguished Professor of Sociology and American Studies & Ethnicity at the University of Southern California (USC) where he directs the Program for Environmental and Regional Equity (PERE) and the Center for the Study of Immigrant Integration (CSII). He is the USC Turpanjian Chair in Civil Society and Social Change, and holds an economics Ph.D. from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Pastor writes and speaks widely on issues including demographic change, economic inequality, community empowerment, environmental justice, and social movements. Pastor’s current research culminates in his latest book, State of Resistance: What California’s Dizzying Descent and Remarkable Resurgence Means for America’s Future. His other recent books are Unsettled Americans: Metropolitan Context and Civic Leadership for Immigrant Integration, co-edited with John Mollenkopf; and Equity, Growth, and Community: What the Nation Can Learn from America’s Metro Areas, co-authored with Chris Benner.
