California Treasurer to Speak at UCR April 19

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John Chiang is part of April lineup of policy influencers in School of Public Policy lecture series
By Bettye Miller on April 12, 2017
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RIVERSIDE, California – State Treasurer John Chiang will discuss why California should embrace its role as the nation’s cradle of economic innovation, social progress, and trailblazing ideas in a public lecture at the UC Riverside School of Public Policy on Wednesday, April 19.
Chiang is one of four policy experts who will address issues of significance to California in lectures presented by the School of Public Policy (SPP) and its research centers in April. All of the lectures are free and open to the public.
Speakers include:

April 18 – Susan Mazur-Stommen, a cultural anthropologist who will discuss “Behavior, Energy, and Climate Change: Ethnographies of Energy as Policy Tools” at 12:30 p.m. in Interdisciplinary 1109. Mazur-Stommen will make the case for using ethnographic tools to help policymakers effect behavioral changes that impact energy and environmental policy by better understanding what people are doing at the level of individuals, families, households, and neighborhoods. Mazur-Stommen, who earned her M.A. and Ph.D. in cultural anthropology from UC Riverside, is the founder of Indicia Consulting LLC, whose primary goal is increasing sustainability and improvement in the natural environment by engaging behavior. RSVP for this SPP Seminar Series event online. Purchase parking permits at Lot 24 via a parking permit dispenser.
April 19 – John Chiang, state treasurer, who will discuss “Why Resist When We Can Lead” at 4:30 p.m. in Interdisciplinary 1128. A reception will follow at 5:30 p.m. Parking will be free for this event in Lot 24. Chiang will discuss why Californians should ignore the impulse to resist the Trump administration agenda and continue to lead the nation instead. “Resistance implies a reactive agenda and the abandonment of progress in order to hold one’s ground. It cedes too much to Washington’s dysfunction ...

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