Myers-Lipton, Scott
Professor, Sociology and Interdisciplinary Social Sciences
Preferred: smlipton@sjsu.edu
Alternate: smlipton@gmail.com
Telephone
Preferred: (408) 924-5761
Interests
Poverty and wealth, race, community change, service-learning
Education
Doctor of Philosophy, University Of Colorado at Boulder, 1994
Master of Arts, Humanities, San Francisco State University, 1989
Bio
Dr. Scott Myers-Lipton is a Professor of Sociology at San José State University, and
is the author of Ending Extreme Inequality: An Economic Bill of Rights Approach to Eliminate Poverty (Paradigm 2015), Rebuild America: Solving the Economic Crisis through Civic Works (Paradigm 2009) and Social Solutions to Poverty: America's Struggle to Build a Just Society (Paradigm 2006), as well as numerous scholarly articles on racism, education, and
civic engagement.
He 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. He has
worked to help students develop solutions to poverty by taking them to live at homeless
shelters, the Navajo and Lakota nations, the US Gulf Coast, and Kingston, Jamaica.
He is also on the Board of Directors for the National Jobs for All Coalition.
Dr. Myers-Lipton is the recipient of San Jose/Silicon Valley NAACP Social Justice
Award, the Elbert Reed Award from the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Association of Santa
Clara County, and the Manuel Vega Latino Empowerment Award. He lives with his wife,
Diane, and his two children, Gabriela and Josiah, in San José. In addition, Scott
and Diane are the proprietors of the Sequoia Retreat Center, a meeting space dedicated
to individual and social transformation.