Speaker Series
Social Innovation Speaker Series
VPD 101 Lower LevelCynthia Strathmann is currently the Executive Director of SAJE (Strategic Actions for a Just Economy), a 501c3 that focuses on tenant rights, healthy housing, and equitable development. SAJE is known for creating the nation’s first welfare-to-work bank account, organizing a … Continue reading
Social Innovation Speaker Series: The Link Between Neighborhoods & Schools
VPD 101 Lower LevelAnn Owens is an Associate Professor in the Sociology department at USC. She received her PhD in Sociology and Social Policy from Harvard University. Ann was a postdoctoral research fellow at the Center on Poverty and Inequality at Stanford … Continue reading
Social Innovation Speaker Series: Saul Garlick, Founder & Chief Executive Officer, Unleesh
University Club of USC, Scriptorium Room 705 W 34th Street, Los Angeles, CA, United StatesSaul Garlick has spent his entire career as a social entrepreneur focused on creating opportunity for populations that have traditionally been left out of the global economy. He has founded and operated companies across the United States, Africa and … Continue reading
Social Innovation Speaker Series: Scott Allard, Author and Professor of Social Policy, University of Washington
VPD 101 Lower LevelScott W. Allard is the Daniel J. Evans Endowed Professor of Social Policy at the Evans School of Public Policy and Governance at the University of Washington with expertise in poverty and inequality, social welfare policy, and urban policy. … Continue reading
Social Innovation Speaker Series: Patagonia’s Road to Ecological Regeneration
VPD 101 Lower LevelVincent Stanley, co-author with Yvon Chouinard of The Responsible Company, has been with Patagonia on and off since its beginning in 1973, for many of those years in key executive roles as head of sales or marketing. More informally, … Continue reading