myers-lipton, scott
<p style="font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 12px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">professor, Sociology and Interdisciplinary Social Sciences</p><p style="font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 12px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</p><p style="font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 12px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 23px;">DMH 210</span><br style="box-sizing: inherit; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 23px;" /><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 23px;">Office Hours: Tue/Thurs 1:15-2PM at Smith/Carlos Statues</span></p><h3 style="font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 20px; line-height: 1.25; font-family: Georgia, Times, " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding="padding" px="px" margin="margin" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">Email</h3><p style="font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 12px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Preferred: <a href="mailto:smlipton@sjsu.edu" style="color: rgb(0, 90, 139); border-bottom: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: inherit;">smlipton@sjsu.edu</a></p><p style="font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 12px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Alternate: <a href="mailto:smlipton@gmail.com" style="color: rgb(0, 90, 139); border-bottom: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: inherit;">smlipton@gmail.com</a></p><h3 style="font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 20px; line-height: 1.25; font-family: Georgia, Times, " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding="padding" px="px" margin="margin" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">Telephone</h3><p style="font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 12px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Preferred: <a href="tel:(408) 924-5761" style="color: rgb(0, 90, 139); border-bottom: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: inherit;">(408) 924-5761</a></p><pre style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; padding: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5; font-family: " courier="Courier" new="New" lucida="Lucida" sans="Sans" typewriter="Typewriter" monospace="monospace" color="color" rgb="rgb" background-color="background-color"> </pre><h2 style="font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 24px; line-height: 1.25; font-family: Georgia, Times, " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding="padding" px="px" margin="margin" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><strong>Interests</strong></h2><p style="font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 12px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Social action, poverty and wealth, institutional racism and sexism, community change, and service-learning</p><h2 style="font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 24px; line-height: 1.25; font-family: Georgia, Times, " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding="padding" px="px" margin="margin" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">Education</h2><p style="font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 12px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Doctor of Philosophy, University Of Colorado at Boulder, 1994</p><p style="font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 12px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Master of Arts, Humanities, San Francisco State University, 1989 </p><h2 style="font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 24px; line-height: 1.25; font-family: Georgia, Times, " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding="padding" px="px" margin="margin" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">Bio</h2><p style="font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 12px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Dr. Scott Myers-Lipton is a Professor of Sociology at San José State University. He is the author of five books, including:<em>CHANGE! A Guide to Teaching Social Action</em> (February 2022, Routledge), <em>CHANGE! A Student Guide to Social Action</em> (2018, Routledge), <em>Ending Extreme Inequality: An Economic Bill of Rights Approach to Eliminate Poverty</em> (2015, Routledge),<em> Rebuild America: Solving the Economic Crisis through Civic Work</em> (2009, Paradigm), <em>Social Solutions to Poverty: America’s Struggle to Build a Just Society</em> (2006, Paradigm). In addition, Dr. Myers-Lipton is the author of the <em>Silicon Valley Pain Index</em> and<em> Racial and Social Justice at San José University. </em></p><p style="font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 12px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Along with his students, Dr. Myers-Lipton 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. In total, he has supported his social action students as they have won 15 campaigns since 2006. In addition, Dr. Myers-Lipton has worked to help students develop solutions to poverty and inequality by taking them to live at homeless shelters, the Navajo and Lakota nations, the US Gulf Coast, and Kingston, Jamaica. </p><p style="font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 12px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Dr. Myers-Lipton is the recipient of the Manuel Vega Latino Empowerment Award, San José/Silicon Valley NAACP Social Justice Award, the Elbert Reed Award from the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Association of Santa Clara County, and the Changer Maker Award from the Silicon Valley Council of Non-Profits.</p><p style="font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 12px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Dr. Myers-Lipton serves as an Advisory Board Member of the SJSU Human Rights Institute.</p><p style="font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 12px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">He lives with his wife, Diane, in San José. In addition, Scott and Diane are the proprietors of the Sequoia Retreat Center, an event center dedicated to individual and social transformation.</p><h2 style="font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 24px; line-height: 1.25; font-family: Georgia, Times, " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding="padding" px="px" margin="margin" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">Links</h2><ul style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 16px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><li style="padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 4px; font-size: 14px;"><a href="http://www.myers-lipton.com/" target="parent" style="color: rgb(0, 90, 139); border-bottom: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; font-family: inherit;">Myers-Lipton.com</a></li><li style="padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 4px; font-size: 14px;"><a href="http://www.bonner.org/socialaction" style="color: rgb(0, 90, 139); border-bottom: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit;">Bonner Foundation Social Action Initiative</a></li><li style="padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 4px; font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://www.sjsu.edu/hri/docs/2021%20SV%20PAIN%20INDEX.pdf" style="color: rgb(0, 90, 139); border-bottom: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit;">Silicon Valley Pain Index</a></li><li style="padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 4px; font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://www.sjsu.edu/hri/docs/Racial%20and%20Social%20Justice.pdf" style="color: rgb(0, 90, 139); border-bottom: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit;">Racial and Social Justice at SJSU</a></li><li style="padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 4px; font-size: 14px;"><a href="http://www.solvingpoverty.com/GCCWC_Historial.htm" style="color: rgb(0, 90, 139); border-bottom: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit;">Solving Poverty</a></li><li style="padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 4px; font-size: 14px;"><a href="http://www.sequoiaretreatcenter.com/" target="parent" style="color: rgb(0, 90, 139); border-bottom: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit;">The Sequoia Retreat Center</a></li></ul>