Middlebury Institute of International Studies presents a lecture by Dr. Scott Myers-Lipton, Professor of Sociology at San Jose State University entitled CHANGE! A Student Guide to Social Action, on Monday, April 30, 6pm-7pm in MIIS's McGowan Building, Room 102.

Join Dr. Scott Myers-Lipton to discuss practical social change for students working in an academic environment. While there are many books about community organizing and social change, there are no college texts focusing on how to provide real-world experience with academic content taking into consideration the flow of the academic term. CHANGE! A Student Guide to Social Action is written specifically for faculty and staff to use with college students with the goal of helping students bring about the change they believe is necessary to make our community a better place to live.

Scott Myers-Lipton is the author of Ending Extreme Inequality: An Economic Bill of Rights Approach to Eliminate Poverty (Paradigm 2015), Rebuild America: Solving the Economic Crisis through Civic Works (Paradigm 2009), and Social Solutions to Poverty: America's Struggle to Build a Just Society (Paradigm 2006), as well as numerous scholarly articles on civic engagement, education, and racism.

He founded the successful effort to raise the minimum wage in San Jose´ 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.

This talk is part of the Hayward Social and Environmental Speaker Series, co-hosted by the Center for the Blue Economy.