Manuel Pastor Jr., Professor of Latin American and Latino Studies (LALS), UC Santa Cruz and Co-Director of the Center for Justice, Tolerance, and Community at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Dr. Pastor’s most recent book, co-authored with Chris Benner, and Laura Leete is entitled Staircases or Treadmills: Labor Market Intermediaries and Economic Opportunity in a Changing Economy. He co-authored Searching for the Uncommon Common Ground: New Dimensions on Race in America (2002) with Angela Glover Blackwell and Stewart Kwoh. He also co-authored with Peter Dreier, Eugene Grigsby, and Marta Lopez-Garza Regions That Work: How Cities and Suburbs Can Grow Together (2000). He served as a member of the Commission on Regions appointed by California’s Speaker of the State Assembly, and in 2002 was awarded a Civic Entrepreneur of the Year award from the California Center for Regional Leadership.
