2018 Session Schedule & Content

Welcome and Introduction

• Roberto Suro, Professor, USC Sol Price School of Public Policy & Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism
• David Morse, Visiting Senior Fellow, USC Sol Price School of Public Policy
• Gary Painter, Director, USC Sol Price Center for Social Innovation
• Dana Goldman, Director, Leonard D. Schaeffer Center for Health Policy & Economics

Reception with Symposium Colleagues and Faculty

Dinner and Keynote Speakers – Setting the Charge for the Symposium

• Jack Knott, Dean, USC Price School of Public Policy
• Cecilia Muñoz, Vice President, Policy & Technology, and Director, National Network, New America

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Introduction to Core Symposium Faculty

• Roberto Suro, Professor, USC Sol Price School of Public Policy
• David Morse, Visiting Senior Fellow, USC Sol Price School of Public Policy
• Gary Painter, Director, USC Sol Price Center for Social Innovation
• LaVonna B. Lewis, Professor, USC Sol Price School of Public Policy
• Sean Knierim, Co-founder, SidePorch

Conversation: Demographics & Inequality in Southern California

• Manuel Pastor, Professor of Sociology, American Studies & Ethnicity, USC
• Marianne Haver Hill, Los Angeles County Economic Development Corporation

Lunch Panel on Regional Innovation in Southern California

• Tracy Colunga, Innovation Team Director, City of Long Beach
• Amanda Daflos, Innovation Team Director, City of Los Angeles
• Beatriz Solis, Director, Healthy Communities South Region, The California Endowment

Agenda Setting & Scenario Building Exercise

• Kristin Grimm, Spitfire Strategies & Symposium Faculty

Transportation, Sustainability & Social Innovation

• Genevieve Giuliano, Professor, USC Sol Price School of Public Policy
• Niki Okuk, Founder, Rco Tires
• David Ambroz, Executive Director of Corporate Citizenship & Social Responsibility, Disney
• Paul Vanderventer, Co-Founder, Community Partners (Moderator)

Reception and Dinner Discussion

• Anthony Foxx, Former U.S. Secretary of Transportation

Morning Keynote

• Ali Noorani, Executive Director, National Immigration Forum

Lunch Panel on Public-Private Partnerships – The LA Justice Fund

• Efrain Escobedo, Vice President, Education & Immigration, California Community Foundation
• Dr. Linda Lopez, Chief of the Office of Immigrant Affairs, City of Los Angeles

Agenda Setting & Scenario Building Exercise

• Erin Hart, Spitfire Strategies & Symposium Faculty

2018 USC Sol Price Center for Social Innovation Summit: Innovations in Urban Housing

• Housing the Workforce
• Innovations to Increase Housing Stock
• Innovations to House the Homeless

Conversation: Social Innovation Financing Tools

Lunch Panel on Financing Social Innovation Solutions

• Jay Banfield, Chief Officer of Innovation and Scale, Year Up
• Deidre Lind, President, The Mayor’s Fund
• Gary Painter, Director, USC Sol Price Center for Social Innovation

Agenda Setting Exercise

• Kristin Grimm, Spitfire Strategies & Symposium Faculty

Conversation: Social Enterprise & Addressing Deep Rooted Issues

• Adlai Wertman, David C. Bohnett Professor of Social Entrepreneurship, USC Marshall School of Business

Lunch Panel: How Southern California is Innovating Health

Reception and Dinner Discussion

• Ai-jen Poo, Executive Director, National Domestic Workers Alliance
• Rashad Robinson, Executive Director, Color of Change

Conversation: Workforce and Economic Development

• Elizabeth Currid-Halkett, James Irvine Center in Urban and Regional Planning/Professor, USC Sol Price School of Public Policy

Lunch Panel on Innovations in Social Movement Building

• Kent Wong, Director, UCLA Labor Center

Preparing for Capstone Presentations

• Andy Goodman, The Goodman Center

Presentation of Capstone Projects

Reception and Closing Dinner