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SUMMARY:Luskin Innovators Speaker Series: Featuring Jon Christensen
DESCRIPTION:Environmental Bonds for Equitable Community BenefitsREGISTER HERE Walk-ins Welcome!Join renowned UCLA professor and journalist Jon Christensen todiscuss highlights from his new report “Environmental Bonds Should Equitably\nBenefit All Communities: Looking Forward Based on an Analysis of Prop 84.” His\ntalk–with critical importance during this election season–will be followed by\na panel with other leaders:Panel:Alf Brandt\, Senior\nCounsel for Assembly Speaker Anthony RendonAlina Bokde\, Executive Director\, Los Angeles Neighborhood Land TrustAlfredo Gonzalez\, Program Officer\, Resources Legacy Fund (moderator)There will be refreshments and hors d’oeuvres.Synopsis of paper \n“A systematic\nanalysis of spending under Proposition 84\, the last major environmental bond\napproved by California voters\, which in 2006 authorized $5.4 billion to improve\nparks\, natural resource protection\, and water quality\, supply and safety. Most\nof that money has been spent. And for the first time ever\, we have good enough\ndata to ask some crucial questions. \nWhere was that funding spent? Who benefited? And\nwas the spending prioritized as voters expected? The report  analyzed $2\nbillion spent on 2\,174 projects in California communities and found decidedly\nmixed results.”About the authorJon Christensen is an\nadjunct assistant professor in the Institute of the Environment and\nSustainability\, the Department of History\, and the Center for Digital\nHumanities at the University of California\, Los Angeles. He is a\njournalist-in-residence at the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability\,\na founder of the Laboratory for Environmental Narrative Strategies (LENS) in\nthe IoES\, and a senior fellow in UCLA’s cityLAB. He is a partner and strategic\nadviser atStamen Design\, an interactive design studio specializing in mapping\,\ndata visualization\, and strategic communications. And he is a regular columnist\nat LA Observed\, a contributor to other newspapers and magazines\, and a\ncommentator on radio and television. \nJon was executive director of the Bill Lane Center for the American West\, an\ninterdisciplinary center for research\, teaching\, new media\, and journalism at\nStanford University before coming to UCLA. He has been an environmental\njournalist and science writer for more than 30 years. His work has appeared in The\nNew York Times\, Nature\, High Country News\, and many other newspapers\,\nmagazines\, journals\, and radio and television shows. Jon was a Knight\nJournalism Fellow at Stanford in 2002-2003 and a Steinbeck Fellow at San Jose\nState University in 2003-2004\, before returning to Stanford to work on a Ph.D.\nin environmental history and the history of science. He was editor of Boom:\nA Journal of California\, a quarterly magazine published by the University\nof California Press\, from 2013 to 2016. \nHe is currently finishing a book entitled Critical Habitat: A History of\nThinking with Things in Nature and is engaged in a multidisciplinary\ndigital environmental humanities research project on nature in cities. And he\nwas a co-coordinator of a Mellon Sawyer Seminar on “Environmental Humanities:\nEmergence and Impacts” at UCLA\, which resulted in A Companion to the\nEnvironmental Humanities\, an edited volume of essays forthcoming from\nRoutledge.
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