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SUMMARY:Release of 2026 Berggruen Governance Index: The Four Worlds of Governance
DESCRIPTION:Overview\n\n\n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n\n\nJoin us for the release of the 2026 Berggruen Governance Index at UCLA. \n\n\n\n\nThe 2026 Berggruen Governance Index measures the relationship between quality of democracy\, quality of government\, and quality of life across 140+ countries from 2000 to 2023. \nIts central finding: governance performance is strikingly persistent. The world divides into four distinct governance clusters — Consolidated Democratic States\, Capacity-Constrained States\, Authoritarian and Hybrid States\, and Low-Capacity Developing States —and nearly six in seven countries sit in the same cluster today as they did in 2000. Of the rare movers\, only one country joined the consolidated democracies; several fell out\, while the authoritarian cluster gained members. \nMeanwhile\, the three dimensions of governance have diverged. Democratic accountability has stagnated globally. State capacity has barely budged. Yet public goods provision has improved nearly everywhere—especially where state capacity is weakest. \nThis raises a critical question: if quality-of-life gains are outpacing the institutional foundations that sustain them\, how long can they last? And can these different governance worlds manage what’s coming—from AI and climate change to demographic shifts and political fragility? \nProgram \n\nWelcome — Anastasia Loukaito-Sideris\nDemocracy and the Berggruen Governance Index — Dawn Nakagawa\nPresenting the 2026 Index — Helmut Anheier & Joseph Saraceno\nPanel Discussion — Stella Ghervas\, Michael Storper\, Vinay Lal\nResponse — Helmut Anheier & Joseph Saraceno\nAudience Q&A\nClosing — Alexandra Lieben\nLunch on the patio\n\n\n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://luskin.ucla.edu/event/release-of-2026-berggruen-governance-index-the-four-worlds-of-governance
LOCATION:UCLA Kerckhoff Hall Grand Salon\, 308 Westwood Plaza\, Los Angeles\, 90095
CATEGORIES:Alumni,For Faculty,For Policymakers,For Students,Public Policy,School of Public Affairs,UCLA,Undergraduate
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SUMMARY:LGBTQ+ Equality and the 2025 Landscape
DESCRIPTION:This event is part of the Luskin Lecture Series and will feature Tony Hoang from Equality California and Silver State Equality. \nRSVP HERE \n5:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. Check-in and Reception \n6:00 p.m. – 7:30 p.m. Program \nRSVP required for admittance. Admission is free\, but registration is required for each attendee. \n\n\n\n\nDescription\nFeatured speaker: Tony Hoang\, Executive Director\, Equality California and Silver State Equality \nOver the past quarter-century\, California has spearheaded tough civil rights protections for the LGBTQ+ community that have become a model for the nation. As we move through 2025\, new challenges and opportunites are emerging in the fight for full equality\, especially in the wake of the 2024 election and shifting political dynamics. \nIn this UCLA Luskin Lecture\, LGBTQ+ rights leader Tony Hoang will share the high points of the fight for full lived equality and identify how to defend against efforts to dismantle the progress. Hoang is executive director of Equality California\, the nation’s largest statewide LGBTQ+ advocacy organization. For over 25 years\, the nonprofit has advanced civil rights legislation at the local\, state and national level\, and helped elect hundreds of pro-equality candidates to office\, up and down the ballot. \nAbout the Speaker\nThe son of Vietnam War refugees and the first person in his family to attend college\, Tony Hoang grew up understanding the marginalized intersections of sexuality\, gender\, race and immigration status. As a college student\, he joined Equality California as a field intern in 2009\, beginning his long career with the organization. Hoang also serves as executive director of the Nevada-based Silver State Equality\, a member of the City of Los Angeles Innovation and Performance Commission\, and a UCLA Luskin Senior Fellow. \n\n\n\n\nPublic Transportation\n\nLos Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA)\nSanta Monica Municipal Bus Lines – “Big Blue Bus”\nCulver City Municipal Bus Lines\nLADOT Commuter Express\nAntelope Valley Transit Authority\nSanta Clarita Transit\nMetrolink (Commuter Trains)\nLAX Transportation Services\n\nMap\, Direction & Parking\nView map \nDirection: From the 405 freeway\, exit on Wilshire Boulevard East. Turn left on Westwood. Proceed north onto the UCLA campus. \nParking: The nearest parking lots to the venue are Parking Structure 4\, Parking Structure 8\, and Parking Structure 9. You may purchase a parking permit through the Bruin ePermit system and at self-service pay stations. An all day pass currently costs $16 per vehicle and $5 per vehicles with handicapped placard. \nFor more information\, please visit UCLA Parking Rates and Fees. \n\n\n\n\nThe UCLA Luskin Lecture Series enhances public discourse on topics relevant to the betterment of society. The Series features renowned public intellectuals\, bringing together scholars as well as national and local leaders to address society’s most pressing problems. Lectures encourage interactive\, lively discourse across traditional divides between the worlds of research\, policy and practice. The Series demonstrates UCLA Luskin’s commitment to encouraging innovative breakthroughs and creative solutions to formidable public policy challenges. \nPhoto Release: By attending this event\, you will be entering an area where photography\, audio and video recording may occur. With your presence\, you authorize UCLA Luskin and its licensees to photograph you\, make sound and/or video recordings of you\, and use the recordings for marketing\, publicity and promotion of this event and UCLA Luskin generally. Please click on the link for the full UCLA Luskin Notice of Filming Release. \nAttendance by a public official will constitute acceptance of a reportable gift. \nThe Luskin School of Public Affairs at UCLA acknowledges the Gabrielino/Tongva peoples as the traditional land caretakers of Tovaangar (the Los Angeles basin and So. Channel Islands). As a land grant institution\, we pay our respects to the Honuukvetam (Ancestors)\, ‘Ahiihirom (Elders) and ‘Eyoohiinkem (our relatives/relations) past\, present and emerging.
URL:https://luskin.ucla.edu/event/lgbtq-equality-and-the-2025-landscape
LOCATION:UCLA Kerckhoff Hall Grand Salon\, 308 Westwood Plaza\, Los Angeles\, 90095
CATEGORIES:Alumni,For Students,Public Policy,School of Public Affairs,Social Welfare,Undergraduate,Urban Planning
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SUMMARY:Planners are Creative: Art\, Culture and Imagination in Planning
DESCRIPTION:A UC Regents Lecture by Mallory Rukhsana Nezam\nThis lecture is open to the public. Admission is free\, but registration is required for each attendee. RSVP HERE \n5:45 p.m. Check-in & Reception\n6:30 p.m. Lecture \nArts and culture strategies in urban planning are evident around the country\, with creative placemaking becoming a buzzed-about practice. Planning activities like cultural planning and cultural economic development similarly interact with art and culture\, especially when produced in collaboration with creative people embedded in communities who help translate complex information in culturally relevant ways. Planners themselves bring so much creativity\, and this talk will explore this context\, focusing on how planners and planning departments may evolve their practices around creativity and imagination to deepen their work and foster equity. \nAbout the Speaker\nMallory Rukhsana Nezam is a cross-sector culture-maker who loves cities and believes they have the tools to become more just and joyful. Her practice\, Justice + Joy\, engages stakeholders across sectors to de-silo the way cities are run and build new models for creative\, interdisciplinary collaboration. Rukhsana Nezam earned a master’s of design from Harvard’s Graduate School of Design\, where she began research on artist residencies in government. She is co-founder of a lab focusing on embedding artists in government\, CAIR Lab (Civic Artists in Residence)\, and is currently a senior cultural policy fellow with the National Assembly of State Arts Agencies\, exploring a national platform for collaboration between the public sector and the arts. She has helped build arts and culture teams at the Metropolitan Area Planning Council of Boston\, Transportation for America and PolicyLink. Raised in Missouri\, she is the founding director of St. Louis Improv Anywhere\, a performance art collective. \nPart of the Transformative Action series: \nInformation is powerful only when it’s in a form that can guide achievable change. This year\, the Luskin School is highlighting innovators — here and elsewhere — turning vision into reality and producing Transformative Action. \nPARKING and TRANSIT\nPublic transportation: Big Blue Bus (Routes 2 and 17)\, Culver CityBus (Line 6)\, Metro\nRide hailing locations: Gateway Plaza\, Luskin Conference Center\nLot 8 Parking: Self-parking is available in UCLA Parking Structure 8\, Level 4\, directly across the street from the center: 405 Hilgard Ave\, Los Angeles\, CA 90095.\nParking Rates at Pay-By-Space stations – All day: $15\, After 4pm: $3-5 (1-2 hours)\, $10 (all night)\nPay-By-Space only has a limited number of stalls available. \nLand and Labor Acknowledgement \nAs a land grant institution\, UCLA acknowledges the Gabrielino/Tongva peoples as the traditional land caretakers of Tovaangar (Los Angeles basin\, So. Channel Islands) and are grateful to have the opportunity to work for the taraaxotam (Indigenous peoples) in this place. We pay our respects to Honuukvetam (Ancestors)\, elders\, and ‘Eyoohiinkem (our relatives/relations) past\, present and emerging. \nWe hold sacred the labor of enslaved Africans and immigrants\, often exploited\, indentured and underpaid\, that built and continue to serve our institutions of higher education.  We honor the labor and resistance of these ancestors\, acknowledge that we benefit from this land and labor\, and strive to work towards liberation for all.
URL:https://luskin.ucla.edu/event/planners-are-creative-art-culture-and-imagination-in-planning
LOCATION:UCLA Kerckhoff Hall Grand Salon\, 308 Westwood Plaza\, Los Angeles\, 90095
CATEGORIES:Alumni,Community Impact,Complete Streets,Development and Housing,For Policymakers,For Students,Public Policy,School of Public Affairs,Social Welfare,Social Welfare PhD,Undergraduate,Urban Planning
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SUMMARY:Luskin Lecture by Historian and Activist Barbara Ransby
DESCRIPTION:RSVP here: https://luskinlecturewithbarbararansby.eventbrite.com \nThursday\, Feb. 8\, 2024\n6:00 p.m. Pacific time\, doors open with light refreshments6:30 p.m.\, event begins \nThe UCLA Luskin Institute on Inequality and Democracy and the Luskin Lecture Series present Professor Barbara Ransby for the 2nd Annual Distinguished Lecture in Ideas and Organizing. \nA noted writer\, historian and activist\, Ransby will explore the inter-institutional space of ideas and organizing\, linking research and scholarship to communities and movement-based work. Her presentation is titled\, “Scholar-Activism in the Era of the New McCarthyism.” \nA discussion moderated by UCLA Professor Ananya Roy will follow\, with Ransby joined by UCLA scholars Sherene H. Razack and David C. Turner III. \nMore about the Speaker\nA distinguished professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago\, Ransby holds the John D. MacArthur Chair in the departments of African American Studies\, Gender and Women’s Studies\, and History. She also directs the campuswide Social Justice Initiative\, a project that promotes connections between scholars and community organizers who are doing work on social justice. \n  \nLand and Labor Acknowledgement \nAs a land grant institution\, UCLA acknowledges the Gabrielino/Tongva peoples as the traditional land caretakers of Tovaangar (Los Angeles basin\, So. Channel Islands) and are grateful to have the opportunity to work for the taraaxotam (Indigenous peoples) in this place. We pay our respects to Honuukvetam (Ancestors)\, elders\, and ‘Eyoohiinkem (our relatives/relations) past\, present and emerging. \nWe hold sacred the labor of enslaved Africans and immigrants\, often exploited\, indentured and underpaid\, that built and continue to serve our institutions of higher education.  We honor the labor and resistance  of these ancestors\, acknowledge that we benefit from this land and labor\, and strive to work towards liberation for all. \n  \n 
URL:https://luskin.ucla.edu/event/2nd-annual-distinguished-lecture-in-ideas-and-organizing-with-barbara-ransby
LOCATION:UCLA Kerckhoff Hall Grand Salon\, 308 Westwood Plaza\, Los Angeles\, 90095
CATEGORIES:Alumni,For Faculty,For Students,Public Policy,School of Public Affairs,Social Welfare,Social Welfare PhD,Undergraduate,Urban Planning
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240122T180000
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SUMMARY:Exhibition of Photos by Former Foster Youth
DESCRIPTION:UCLA will launch a photographic exhibition with an RSVP-only opening reception on Monday\, Jan. 22\, in Kerckhoff Grand Salon. \n“Fostering Photovoice (2023)” is a group exhibition of photographs reflecting the lives and experiences of former foster youth and their views on how involvement in the child welfare system impacted them. The exhibition will be on display Jan. 22-26 in Kerckhoff Art Gallery on the UCLA campus. \nThe project was conceived by a Photovoice Collective that included the six featured artists — all former foster youth between the ages of 18 and 25 residing in Los Angeles County. The collective also involves several UCLA undergraduate and graduate students with expertise in photography and using the arts-based empowerment method called Photovoice in relation to social policy and research\, as well as lived expertise from foster care involvement. \nThe collective came together over seven weeks in summer 2023. The project began by developing questions to guide the artists’ self-exploration\, including: \n\nHow did involvement in the child welfare system change you and your family connections?\nWhat changes to the system would you like to see as a result of your experience?\n\nThe exhibition invites viewers to reflect on what they believe about foster youth and the foster care system\, including any biases they may have. The gallery showing encourages attendees to consider how best to support these young people who enter state care through no fault of their own — both as children and when they transition to adulthood. Does the system do everything it can to preserve sibling and family relationships whenever possible? If not\, what more can be done? \nFor additional information\, please contact: \n\nKate Watson\, principal investigator\nAbigail Rubtsova\, member of core project team\nAngelica Sac Tzep\, member of artist collective
URL:https://luskin.ucla.edu/event/exhibition-of-photos-by-former-foster-youth
LOCATION:UCLA Kerckhoff Hall Grand Salon\, 308 Westwood Plaza\, Los Angeles\, 90095
CATEGORIES:School of Public Affairs,Social Welfare,Social Welfare PhD
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SUMMARY:Journey for Water\, Climate and Environmental Justice
DESCRIPTION:Part of the Meyer and Renee Luskin Lecture Series \nCheck-in begins at 5:30pm with the discussion following at 6:00pm. \nRSVP HERE \n\n\nThis event features MacArthur “genius” award-winning activist Catherine Coleman Flowers and her groundbreaking\, community-driven work on the previously invisible problem of inadequate water and sanitation infrastructure in rural communities in the United States. Flowers’ journey is discussed in the broader context of national climate and environmental justice advocacy. \nThe second half of the event will feature Catherine in discussion with Joaquin Esquivel\, chair of the California State Water Resources Control Board (California Water Board)\, and Megan Mullin\, faculty director of the UCLA Luskin Center for Innovation (LCI). The discussion will include the sanitation equity work that will soon be launched by LCI’s Human Right to Water Solutions Lab in collaboration with the California Water Board and partners. \nCatherine Coleman Flowersis an internationally recognized environmental activist\, MacArthur “genius” grant recipient\, and author. She has dedicated her life’s work to advocating for environmental justice\, primarily equal access to clean water and functional sanitation for communities across the United States. \nFounder of the Center for Rural Enterprise and Environmental Justice (CREEJ)\, Flowers has spent her career promoting equal access to clean water\, air\, sanitation\, and soil to reduce health and economic disparities in marginalized\, rural communities. In addition\, Flowers serves as Rural Development Manager for Bryan Stevenson’s Equal Justice Initiative (EJI)\, is a Board Member for the Center for Earth Ethics at Union Theological Seminary\, and sits on the Board of Directors for the Climate Reality Project and the Natural Resources Defense Council. Flowers is also Co-Chair of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Commission on Accelerating Climate Action and Practitioner in Residence at Duke University. \nIn 2021\, her leadership and fervor in fighting for solutions to these issues led her to one of her most notable appointments yet — Vice Chair of the Biden Administration’s inaugural White House Environmental Justice Advisory Council. Flowers was also named Levenick Resident Scholar in Sustainable Leadership at the University of Illinois for the spring 2021 and was awarded an honorary PhD in science from Wesleyan University. \nAs the author of Waste: One Woman’s Fight Against America’s Dirty Secret\, Flowers shares her inspiring story of advocacy\, from childhood to environmental justice champion. She discusses sanitation and its correlation with systemic class\, racial\, and geographic prejudice that affects people across the United States. She has been featured in The New York Times\, The Washington Post\, Bloomberg\, The Guardian\, and on PBS. \n\n\n\n\n  \nRSVP required for admittance.\nAdmission is free\, but registration is required for each attendee. \nParking\nPublic transportation: Big Blue Bus (Routes 2 and 17)\, Culver CityBus (Line 6)\, Metro\nRide hailing locations: Gateway Plaza\, Luskin Conference Center\nOn-site parking available for $14 (Lot 2\, Lot 8) \nThe Luskin School of Public Affairs at UCLA acknowledges the Gabrielino/Tongva peoples as the traditional land caretakers of Tovaangar (the Los Angeles basin and So. Channel Islands). As a land grant institution\, we pay our respects to the Honuukvetam (Ancestors)\, ‘Ahiihirom (Elders) and ‘Eyoohiinkem (our relatives/relations) past\, present and emerging.
URL:https://luskin.ucla.edu/event/journey-for-water-climate-and-environmental-justice
LOCATION:UCLA Kerckhoff Hall Grand Salon\, 308 Westwood Plaza\, Los Angeles\, 90095
CATEGORIES:Climate Change,Environment,For Faculty,For Policymakers,For Students,Luskin Center,Public Policy,School of Public Affairs,Smart Water Systems,Social Welfare,Undergraduate,Urban Planning
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SUMMARY:Art Exhibit and Panel Discussion on Sexual Violence Awareness
DESCRIPTION:An event titled\, “Double Jeopardy: Experiences of Sexual Violence\, Xenophobia\, and Anti-Asian Racism\,” will open with a panel discussion on Tuesday\, April 25\, in Kerckhoff Hall Grand Salon. \nAn art exhibition will remain available through April 28 at the Art Gallery @UCLA\, 308 Westwood Plaza. \nOrganized in conjunction with April Sexual Assault Awareness Month and the upcoming Denim Day. \nThe gathering will feature a light dinner from 5:30-6 p.m.\, followed by a panel discussion to begin with welcoming remarks at about 6:05 p.m. \nABOUT THIS EVENT\nThis project delves into the intersection of gender-based discrimination and sexual violence within the lives of Asian international and American students\, and Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander students across the University of California system. \nA dedicated student-led team from UCLA\, Jianchao Lai of UCLA Luskin Social Welfare and Eunhee Park of Community Health Sciences\, launched this project in response to the surge in discrimination against Asian communities and the mental health challenges they face on college campuses in the aftermath of COVID-19. They were guided by faculty advisors Dr. Jennifer Wagman (Community Health Sciences) and Lauren McCarthy (Design Media Arts). \nCollaborating with UC students who have experienced sexual violence\, harassment\, intimate partner violence\, and/or anti-Asian discrimination\, the team facilitated the creation of diverse artworks\, including photography\, drawings\, writing\, and audio narratives. This artistic expression not only fosters personal introspection but also opens up conversations that contribute to the healing journey of the students and enhance response systems for both social and institutional violence. \nThrough this interactive exhibition\, the team aims to empower affected individuals and ignite a movement that raises awareness\, fosters understanding\, and ultimately inspires change. By harnessing the power of art and activism\, they seek to shed light on the complex and deeply personal struggles of the Asian community\, and together\, build a more inclusive and supportive environment for everyone. \nThe opening night art exhibit and panel discussion about sexual violence awareness will feature student activist leaders from UCLA\, USC\, and Occidental College\, as well as expert speakers and professionals from community organizations like CPAF. \nThis event is the perfect opportunity to learn from college student activists who work against sexual violence on college campuses and learn about ways to do your part to prevent sexual violence on campus. Don’t miss out on this unique opportunity to engage with your community and expand your knowledge. \nRSVP NOW
URL:https://luskin.ucla.edu/event/art-exhibit-and-panel-discussion-on-sexual-violence-awareness
LOCATION:UCLA Kerckhoff Hall Grand Salon\, 308 Westwood Plaza\, Los Angeles\, 90095
CATEGORIES:Alumni,Diversity,For Students,Public Policy,School of Public Affairs,Social Welfare,Social Welfare PhD,Undergraduate,Urban Planning
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230411T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230411T195000
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SUMMARY:Shifting Focus: Organizing for an EcoSocialist Future
DESCRIPTION:A UC Regents’ Lecture by Kali Akuno\nRSVP Here \nSign up for office hours \nTuesday\, April 11\n6:00-6:30 p.m. – Check-in and Reception\n6:30-7:50 p.m. – Lecture \n  \nThe capitalist system is choking the life systems of our precious planet and threatening the extinction of complex life\, including that of the human race. The IPCC and leading climate scientists clearly indicate that we have less than 10 years to make a serious course correction to avert this catastrophe. Trying to work within the logic of the capitalist system to course correct\, which is the path of the UN Climate Change Conferences\, clearly isn’t working. Reforming capitalism\, which will still depend on the need for constant growth\, also won’t work. We need a real course correction\, and we need it in short order. The path to getting there has to be an ecosocialist one. One premised on bottom up transformation\, employing the democratic tools of the solidarity economy and the transformative principles of decolonization\, anti-imperialism\, anti-capitalism\, anti-racism\, anti-heterosexism\, and degrowth. \nKali Akuno is a co-founder and director of Cooperation Jackson\, which is an emerging network of worker cooperatives and supporting institutions. Cooperation Jackson is fighting to create economic democracy by creating a vibrant solidarity economy in Jackson\, MS that will help transform Mississippi and the South. You can find more information about Cooperation Jackson at www.CooperationJackson.org. \nKali served as the Director of Special Projects and External Funding in the Mayoral Administration of the late Chokwe Lumumba of Jackson\, MS. His focus was supporting cooperative development\, sustainability\, human rights and international relations. \nKali Akuno is an organizer\, educator\, and writer for human rights and social justice. He is the former Co-Director of the US Human Rights Network. Kali also served as the Executive Director of the Peoples’ Hurricane Relief Fund (PHRF) based in New Orleans\, Louisiana after Hurricane Katrina. And was a co-founder of the School of Social Justice and Community Development (SSJCD)\, a public school serving the academic needs of low-income African American and Latino communities in Oakland\, California. \nKali is also the co-editor of “Jackson Rising: the Struggle for Economic Democracy and Black Self-Determination in Jackson\, MS”\, and the author of numerous articles and pamphlets including the Jackson-Kush Plan: the Struggle for Black Self-Determination and Economic Democracy”\, “Until We Win: Black Labor and Liberation in the Disposable Era”\, “Operation Ghetto Storm: Every 28 Hours report” and “Let Your Motto Be Resistance: A Handbook on Organizing New Afrikan and Oppressed Communities for Self-Defense”.
URL:https://luskin.ucla.edu/event/shifting-focus-organizing-for-an-ecosocialist-future
LOCATION:UCLA Kerckhoff Hall Grand Salon\, 308 Westwood Plaza\, Los Angeles\, 90095
CATEGORIES:Alumni,For Faculty,For Students,Public Policy,School of Public Affairs,Social Welfare,Urban Planning
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230202T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230202T193000
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SUMMARY:Cultural Reparation: The Last-Mile Solution to Our Climate Crisis
DESCRIPTION:A real climate breakthrough requires nothing short of a radical imagination and a profound cultural shift. In this University of California Regents’ Lecture\, nationally recognized sustainable development practitioner Denise Fairchild will introduce her new Climate Breakthrough project\, funded by a $3 million award aimed at advancing transformative solutions to the climate crisis. Fairchild calls for addressing the cultural dimensions at the root of the crisis in a revolution grounded in optimism and possibility\, as opposed to sacrifice and despair.Fairchild\, who earned her doctorate in urban planning from UCLA in 1987\, has spent 40 years working at the intersection of climate\, economics and equity. She is president emeritus of Emerald Cities Collaborative\, a nonprofit aimed at creating local economies that are sustainable\, just and inclusive\, and co-author of the book “Energy Democracy\, Advancing Equity in Clean Energy Solutions.”
URL:https://luskin.ucla.edu/event/cultural-reparation-the-last-mile-solution-to-our-climate-crisis
LOCATION:UCLA Kerckhoff Hall Grand Salon\, 308 Westwood Plaza\, Los Angeles\, 90095
CATEGORIES:Business and the Environment,Climate Change,Environment,For Faculty,For Policymakers,For Students,School of Public Affairs,Undergraduate
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