Manuel Pastor
Dr. Manuel Pastor is Professor of Geography and American Studies & Ethnicity at the University of Southern California, where he also serves as Director of the Program for Environmental and Regional Equity (PERE) and as Co-Director of USC’s Center for the Study of Immigrant Integration (CSII). Manuel holds an economics Ph.D. from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and has received fellowships from the Danforth, Guggenheim, and Kellogg foundations and grants from the Irvine Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the National Science Foundation, and many others. Manuel speaks frequently on issues of demographic change, income inequality, community empowerment, and social conditions facing low-income urban communities in the United States. His most recent book, co-authored with Chris Benner and Martha Matsuoka, is This Could Be the Start of Something Big: How Social Movements for Regional Equity Are Reshaping Metropolitan America.
