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In the Green Room with Management Analyst Greg Hermann

January 6, 2012

Greg Hermann is a senior management analyst for the city of Carlsbad. Before participating in a panel on whether technology can save local government http://zocalopublicsquare.org/thepublicsquare/2011/10/27/municipal-mouse-click/read/the-takeaway/, he admitted that his greatest weakness is an attention to detail that’s become eponymous in his office.

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In the Green Room With Technology Consultant April Manatt

On January 5, 2012

April Manatt is principal of April Manatt Consulting and author of the report “Hear Us Now? A California Survey of Digital Technology’s Role in Civic Engagement and Local Government.” Before participating in a panel on e-government’s future, she revealed that she’s a fan of Rush—and not shy about being a bit of a nerd.

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The Futility of Painting Oil Rigs

Cultural Analyst Andrew Ross Takes Questions in the Green Room

On January 3, 2012

New York University cultural analyst Andrew Ross is the author of Bird on Fire: Lessons from the World’s Least Sustainable City. On a balmy evening in Phoenix, he talked (in a light Scottish brogue) about the months he likes best there, his children, and his time on an oil rig in the North Sea before discussing whether Phoenix can ever become a green city.

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Don’t Ask About His Next Movie

Director John Singleton Takes Questions in the Green Room

On January 2, 2012

Filmmaker John Singleton is the writer and director of movies including Boyz n the Hood and Shaft. Before participating in a panel as part of the Pacific Standard Time initiative on the past and future of L.A.’s global image, he talked in the green room about what keeps him up at night.

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Not Yet Rich Enough For the Cayman Islands

Marc Lacey of the New York Times Takes Questions In the Green Room

On December 21, 2011

Marc Lacey has worked for the New York Times since 1999, working as a reporter in Washington, as bureau chief in Nairobi, and as the first bureau chief of Phoenix. He will be deputy foreign editor of the New York Times starting in 2012. Before moderating a panel on whether Arizona is on the frontline of American politics, Lacy took questions in the green room.

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Friday, December 3, 2010
How One Family Created Chinese America
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The Lucky Ones, by Mae Ngai The Lucky Ones: One Family and the Extraordinary Invention of Chinese America by Mae Ngai Hyphenated cultures seem to be a natural part of California’s landscape today, but it wasn’t always so. The Lucky Ones by Mae Ngai offers a fresh look at California history by reconstructing the lives of immigrant and second generation pioneers who lived between cultures when it was not such a common phenomenon. Ngai’s narrative brings Chinese Americans into a richer tradition of historical storytelling by humanizing an ambivalent, middle-class immigrant family, situating their lives within the more well-known histories of Chinese laborers and those who suffered from the 1882 Exclusion Act.

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