Published by Cynthia Kaufman
Cynthia Kaufman is the Director emerita of the Vasconcellos Institute for Democracy in Action De Anza College where she ran, and taught in, a community organizer training program. She is the author of six books on social change: Solidarity Economics: Building Sustainable Social Relations, Consumerism, Sustainability, and Happiness, The Sea is Rising and So Are We, Challenging Power: Democracy and Accountability in a Fractured World, Getting Past Capitalism and Ideas for Action. She is the co-author with Angélica Esquivel of Introduction to Community Organizing She is the board Preside of Fossil Free California Votes and a Steering Committee member of Jewish Voice for Peace Bay Area. She received her PhD and MA in Philosophy from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and her BA in Development Studies from UC Berkeley. She began her love of community college by attending Mira Costa College in Oceanside, California. View all posts by Cynthia Kaufman