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C06 Opening Keynote Address

                       

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Manuel Pastor, Jr., University of California, Santa Cruz

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"Achieving diversity is not the same as achieving justice. The former has already proved to be a difficult challenge and is just the first rung on the ladder. Achieving justice will require a new kind of collaborative leadership in the nonprofit sector."
Manuel Pastor

Collaborating for Justice:  A Different Kind of Leadership


Opening Keynote Address
Wednesday, August 2
5:00pm – 6:15pm


Dr. Manuel Pastor, professor of Latin American and Latino Studies and Co-Director of the Center for Justice, Tolerance, and Community at the University of California, Santa Cruz, will deliver an insightful keynote address that reflects on the new demographics, new economics, and new inequalities emerging in California and what these trends foretell for the rest of the United States.

No question, nonprofits now require new capacities to adjust to changing demographics.  As capacity builders, how can we help the nonprofit sector get beyond coping strategies and move ahead into a leadership role in how our society embraces multiculturalism?  This keynote will address new forms of leadership and collaborative structures that will be needed for nonprofits to work for justice, opportunity, and social cohesion in a rapidly changing environment.

 

About Manuel Pastor

Dr. Manuel Pastor is Professor of Latin American and Latino Studies and Co-Director of the Center for Justice, Tolerance, and Community at the University of California, Santa Cruz. An undergraduate at UCSC between 1973 and 1978, Pastor holds an economics Ph.D. from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and has received fellowships from the Danforth, Guggenheim, and Kellogg foundations and grants from the Irvine Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the National Science Foundation, the Hewlett Foundation, the Social Science Research Council, the MacArthur Foundation, the California Environmental Protection Agency, the W.T. Grant Foundation, the California Council for the Humanities, the U.S. Institute of Peace, the North-South Center, and many others.

His research on Latin American issues has been published in journals such as International Organization, World Development, Journal of Development Economics, Journal of Latin American Studies, Latin American Research Review, and Foreign Affairs. His research on U.S. urban issues has been published in Economic Development Quarterly, Review of Regional Studies, Social Science Quarterly, Journal of Economic Issues, Journal of Urban Affairs, Urban Affairs Review, Urban Geography, and elsewhere and has generally focused on the labor market and social conditions facing low-income urban communities.

Dr. Pastor's most recent book, co-authored with Angela Glover Blackwell and Stewart Kwoh, is entitled Searching for the Uncommon Common Ground:  New Dimensions on Race in America (W.W. Norton, 2002).  He co-authored with Peter Dreier, Eugene Grigsby, and Marta Lopez-Garza Regions That Work: How Cities and Suburbs Can Grow Together (University of Minnesota Press, 2000), a book that has become a reference for those seeking to better link community and regional development.  He and Dreier recently teamed with Jennifer Wolch as editors of a collection of essays entitled Up Against the Sprawl:  Public Policy and the (Re-) Making of Southern California (University of Minnesota Press, 2004).

Pastor is currently working on issues of environmental justice with support from The California Endowment and the California Air Resources Board, and on the relationship between community-building and regional strategies with the support of the Ford Foundations.  Along with Rob Fairlie and Rebecca London, he is completing a project on race, youth, and the digital divide with the support of the W.T. Grant Foundation and the Community Technology Foundation of California.

Dr. Pastor speaks frequently on issues of community empowerment and has contributed opinion pieces to such outlets as the Los Angeles Times, the San Jose Mercury News, and the Christian Science Monitor. He served as a member of the Commission on Regions appointed by California's Speaker of the State Assembly, and in January 2002 was awarded a Civic Entrepreneur of the Year award from the California Center for Regional Leadership.