Scott Myers-Lipton on the Silicon Valley Pain Index. Silicon Valley Clean Energy Update
When: Wednesday, August 2, 6:30 pm. On Zoom and In-person.
Location of In-Person Meeting: Sunnyvale Community Services, 1160 Kern Avenue, Sunnyvale, CA
Or Zoom Registration: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMrcuCopzorHtFaeaQJ-UNE3l4mKX__1WR-
Scott Myers-Lipton
Dr. Scott Myers-Lipton recently retired after 24 years as a Professor of Sociology at San José State University to become the director of the Teaching Social Action Initiative, an organization that encourages faculty to develop social action courses that help students launch campaigns.
He is the author of the Silicon Valley Pain Index, an annual study that focuses on racial discrimination and income inequality in the region. Other books include CHANGE! A Teachers Guide to Social Action, CHANGE! A Student Guide to Social Action (2018), Ending Extreme Inequality: An Economic Bill of Rights Approach to Eliminate Poverty, and Rebuild America: Solving the Economic Crisis through Civic Works.
He co-founded the successful effort to raise the minimum wage in San José from $8 to $10, and the Gulf Coast Civic Works Campaign, an initiative to develop 100,000 prevailing wage jobs for local and displaced workers after Hurricane Katrina. He has worked to help students develop solutions to poverty by taking them to live at homeless shelters, the Navajo and Lakota nations, the US Gulf Coast, and Kingston, Jamaica. He is also on the Board of Directors for the National Jobs for All Coalition.
Dr. Myers-Lipton is the recipient of San Jose/Silicon Valley NAACP Social Justice Award, the Elbert Reed Award from the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Association of Santa Clara County, and the Manuel Vega Latino Empowerment Award.
Silicon Valley Clean Energy
Have you ever wondered what Silicon Valley Clean Energy is? Well, wonder no more because our second speaker is, Juliette Pascual, Community Outreach Specialist at Silicon Valley Clean Energy.
She will talk about their business mode, renewable power portfolio, the positive impact they have made on our planet and programs to help you to be a clean energy consumer.
Juliette Pascual is the Community Outreach Specialist at Silicon Valley Clean Energy. In her role, she focuses on raising awareness of Silicon Valley Clean Energy’s role as the local community clean energy provider and connecting residents with SVCE resources. She does this by building community relationships, promoting the agency through local community events and sponsorships, and supporting youth engagement initiatives.