{"product_id":"godmothers-gather-miriam-pawel-jose-alamillo","title":"Miriam Pawel \u0026 Jose Alamillo","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e📅 Event Details\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTHU OCT 15 @ 6 P.M.\u003cbr\u003e📍 Location:\u003c\/strong\u003e Godmothers\u003cbr\u003e2280 Lillie Avenue, Summerland, CA 93067\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003chr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/e\/godmothers-gather-miriam-pawel-jose-alamillo-tickets-1999312289879\" style=\"background-color: #f05537; color: white; padding: 12px 24px; text-decoration: none; border-radius: 5px; display: inline-block; font-weight: bold;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e🎫 Get Your Tickets on Eventbrite\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003chr\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\"Essential reading for anyone who believes in the transformative power of education.” —Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, UCLA (1969)\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"margin-top: 20px;\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"margin: 20px 10px; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px; font-weight: 400; text-align: left;\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePulitzer Prize winner Miriam Pawel joins us to discuss \u003cem\u003e\u003cem\u003eCalifornia Dreams: The Making and Remaking of the University of California,\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e an epic history of one of the world's elite public universities, its sweeping social impact, and hopeful lessons about endurance in troubled times. She‘ll be joined in conversation by Jose Alamillo, a graduate of UCSB and a history professor at Cal State Channel Islands.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDistinguished by its founding mission as an engine of upward mobility, the University of California-a constitutionally independent public trust-is a great American experiment that has persevered through fraught battles over access, funding, and leadership.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe University has been at the nexus of nearly every public policy debate and social movement since the Civil War, from women's rights to student protests, from academic freedom to affirmative action, shaping policies that reverberate throughout the United States.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cem\u003eCalifornia Dreams\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e narrates UC's rise and resilience through the lens of those whose lives it has transformed-in particular, five pioneering graduates whose diverse paths underscore why the University remains, in the words of Berkeley graduate Joan Didion, “California's best idea of itself.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAt a time of staggering inequality and uncertainty, as higher education faces unprecedented threats, that role has never been more crucial. Drawing on extensive research in ten archives and dozens of interviews, “California Dreams” weaves together the linked history of the school and state in all its drama, significance, and humanity; the result is a magisterial narrative of both a remarkable public institution of higher education, and also California itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Godmothers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52440614043938,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/8637\/3154\/files\/miriam.png?v=1788817868","url":"https:\/\/godmothers.com\/products\/godmothers-gather-miriam-pawel-jose-alamillo","provider":"Godmothers","version":"1.0","type":"link"}