This POSC 395 professional development event is on Tuesday, September 30 at 2:00 p.m. PT at the CPF office in SOS B15. The event is open to all students. Students enrolled in POSC 395 must attend at least two professional development events throughout the semester.  

Join us for a coffee talk with Dr. Cynthia Strathmann, the Executive Director of SAJE (Strategic Actions for a Just Economy), a nonprofit that builds community leadership and power for economic justice by fighting for tenant rights, healthy housing, and equitable development.

Previously, Cynthia served as a Research Analyst at the Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy (LAANE), where she researched ways to increase energy efficiency in homes and businesses with the RePower campaign. Before that, Strathmann was a Research Professor at USC where she managed a National Institutes of Health funded study of South LA families and health disparities. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Anthropology and Biology from the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC), a Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), and completed postdoctoral work at UCLA’s David Geffen School of Medicine. 

Students or community members interested in attending should contact [email protected] for more information and the signup link.