Step Up Learning and Development Series

The Learning and Development Series is a part of Step Up Silicon Valley’s effort to deepen dialogue on specific community issues and creating innovative solutions. We seek to engage our network through workshops that feature guest speakers who are experts in their fields. The L&D Series is sponsored by the Leavey School of Business, Santa Clara University.

Past topics include:

Poverty, Inequality and Trends in the Labor Market with Professor Hilary Hoynes, University of California, Berkeley
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Ending Extreme Inequality with Professor Scott Myers-Lipton, San Jose State University
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How Savings Groups Are Revolutionizing Development with Professor Jeffrey Ashe, Columbia University
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Environmental Injustice: A Spatial Analysis of Cumulative Environmental Benefits and Burdens for Santa Clara County’s Neighborhoods with Professor Iris Stewart-Frey, Professor Christopher Bacon, and William Burke, Santa Clara University
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Just Growth: Inclusion and Prosperity in America’s Metropolitan Regions with Professor Chris Benner, University of California, Davis
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Advocacy Training with Patricia Gardner, Executive Director, Silicon Valley Council of Nonprofits
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The Supplemental Poverty Measure with Professor David B. Grusky, Stanford Center on Poverty and Inequality
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Network Weaving with June Holley