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About Scott Myers-Lipton

Dr. Scott Myers-Lipton is a Professor of Sociology at San José State University. He is the author of five books, including: In addition, Dr. Myers-Lipton is the author of the Silicon Valley Pain Index and Racial and Social Justice at San José University.

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.

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, the Changer Maker Award from the Silicon Valley Council of Non-Profits, the Teaching Effectiveness Award from the SJSU College of Social Sciences, and the SJSU Distinguished Service Award.

Dr. Myers-Lipton serves as an Advisory Board Member of the SJSU Human Rights Institute. In addition, Dr. Myers-Lipton, along with Bobby Hackett from the Bonner Foundation, are leading an effort to mainstream social action in higher education. 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.

Positions

June 2010 - Present Professor, San Jose State University Department of Sociology and Interdisciplinary Social Sciences
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August 2003 - May 2010 Associate Professor, San Jose State University Department of Sociology and Interdisciplinary Social Sciences
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August 1999 - July 2003 Assistant Professor, San Jose State University Department of Sociology and Interdisciplinary Social Sciences
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Grants

2020 - 2022 to manage the SJSU Social Action Internship Program
Heising-Simons Foundation
$200,000
2019 RCSA, for travel expenses to be a panelist at the American Sociological Association’s Annual Conference, New York, NY
San Jose State University
$2,160
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Education

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1994 PhD, University of Colorado, Boulder ‐ Sociology
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1989 MA, San Francisco State University ‐ Humanities
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1983 BA, University of San Diego ‐ Political Science
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Books (4)

Presentations (1)

Publications (5)

SJSU Author & Artist Celebration (3)