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Photos by David Ng Civic U 1.0 #CivicU on Facebook and Twitter After the successful Civic U 2.0 for neighborhood councils in 2016, the City’s Department of Neighborhood Empowerment asked the Pat Brown Institute to come back in 2017 to give a new cohort of elected...
The Pat Brown Institute for Public Affairs at Cal State LA, in association with the World Trade Center LA and the LAEDC, will hold its 2017 Annual Policy Conference, “Should California Have Its Own Trade Policy?” on Thursday October 5th at The L.A. Hotel Downtown. International trade and investment policies are both economically critical and politically sensitive. What should the nation’s largest state and the world’s 6th largest economy be doing? What role can and should cities, large and small, play? Through dialogue and debate, the conference will help clarify the next steps for our leaders and our communities in an unsettling and unprecedented era.
"Presidential Power In An Age Of Uncertainty: A Conversation with Erwin Chemerinsky" Presented by Cal State LA's Vice Provost for Diversity and Engaged Learning Octavio Villalpando and the Pat Brown Institute at Cal State LA. On April, 26, 2017 the Institute's...
Marking 30 Years at Cal State LA Thursday, April 27, 2017 The Millennium Biltmore Hotel 506 S. Grand Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90071 5:30 p.m. Reception 7 p.m. Program Purchase Individual Tickets and Sponsorships Press Release Annual Dinner Invitation Annual Dinner...
Sascha Rice, a board of adviser of the Pat Brown Institute for Public Affairs and granddaughter of former Governor Pat Brown, hosted a screening of her film California State of Mind at Roosevelt High School this past month. Over 50 students participated in the...
The first of three United Way of Greater Los Angeles LAUSD candidate forums was held at Cal State LA on February 10, 2017. The event drew over 200 people and was preceded by a resource fair for undocumented students and families, and voter registration.
The Summit was a half-day convening that brought together 100 elected and civic leaders from throughout the county representing the nonprofit, government, and academic sectors.
On November 17th, 2016, The Institute held its 23rd Annual Conference, “Election 2016: What On Earth Happened?”
On November 3rd, the Pat Brown Institute for Public Affairs at Cal State LA hosted a media and community briefing to release findings from its PBI-Cal State LA Latino Poll. The poll, conducted for PBI by the nationally recognized firm Latino Decisions, surveyed 1,501 Latino registered voters in Los Angeles County.
The event presented a historic study about the current economic and community assets of the Central 710 Corridor – Southeast Los Angeles region, by Beacon Economics. Following the presentation, a panel of local civic leaders and experts shared their impressions of the report’s implications, and generated an open dialogue with the audience.