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POPE JOHN PAUL II
Pope John Paul II visited the United States in 1979 and gave this speech in the Boston Common on October 1st of that year. He was born in Poland as Karol Józef Wojtyła on May 18, 1920 and was the head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of Vatican City from 1978 until his death in 2005. Pope John Paul II was the first non-Italian pope since Adrian V1 in the 1500’s and the third longest serving pope after Pius IX and St. Peter (the first pope). He put emphasis on family and identity, while questioning consumerism, hedonism and the pursuit of wealth. He was one of the most travelled world leaders in history, visiting 129 countries during his reign.
He has been credited with fighting against dictatorships for democracy and with helping to end communist rule in his native Poland and the rest of Europe. Under John Paul II, the Catholic Church greatly expanded its influence in Africa and Latin America and retained its influence in Europe and the rest of the world.
Note: This show is longer than usual, the speech is in its original form.
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NATHALIE RAYES
Nathalie Rayes serves as U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Croatia. Ambassador Rayes has led a distinguished career in public service and served previously as the president and CEO of Latino Victory. Prior to joining Latino Victory, Rayes was vice president of public affairs for Grupo Salinas in the United States and executive director of Fundación Azteca America. Earlier in her career, she managed the Los Angeles Mayor’s Office of Intergovernmental Relations, International Trade, and Protocol, and established the city’s first Office of Immigrant Affairs.
She has served as a prominent member of multiple boards, to include as President Biden’s appointee to the United States Institute of Peace, President Obama’s appointee to the board of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, and chair of the board of directors of the Hispanic Federation and the advisory group for Hispanas Organized for Political Equality (HOPE) Binational Fellowship.
She has been recognized for her many contributions to public service, including the AL DÍA Archetype Ambassador Manuel Torres Award. She was named among the 25 most powerful Latinas in the United States by People en Español Magazine, and was among the Top 10 Líderes by Hispanic Executive Magazine in 2021. Rayes was recognized in the Huffington Post’s “40 Under 40 Latinos in Foreign Policy” in 2015.
Ambassador Rayes has a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology and a Master’s in Public Policy from UCLA. She is fluent in Spanish and conversational in Arabic. Ambassador Rayes is married to Dr. Tarek Samad, an accomplished neuroscientist, and they have two sons, Julian and Alexander.
RELATED LINKS
Wikipedia
US Embassy in Croatia
With the 173rd Airborne Brigade
Q&A with Daily Bruin (UCLA)
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TOTG EXPERIMENTAL SERIES BY A.I. // JAVIER MILEI 🇦🇷
This is the fifth of five from our “Experimental Series by A.I.”. The machine talks about three articles analyzing the presidency of Argentina's libertarian president, Javier Milei. The first article focuses on Milei's approval ratings amidst his austerity measures. Article two offers a detailed biography of Milei, exploring his eccentric personality, controversial political stances (including ultraliberal economics and social conservatism), and comparisons to other right-wing populist leaders. The last article assesses the effectiveness of Milei's economic policies thus far into his term, highlighting both successes (fiscal surplus) and significant challenges (economic contraction, social unrest, and congressional gridlock).
Note: The host split a good chunk of 1998 between Buenos Aires and Sao Paulo and traveled the country in subsequent years from the capital city to the tip of the continent (Tierra del Fuego & Patagonia). It is a remarkable place undergoing a significant amount of transformative change under the leadership of this episode’s subject.
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FLORIAN’S BIO
Florian Faber has one of the coolest jobs in the world, he is CEO and on the Board of Directors of MCH Group, which among many endeavors owns, hosts, curates and puts together the incredible spectacles the four Art Basel shows deliver to millions. In June 2024, they concluded Art Basel in Basel, Switzerland, as he calls it “the mothership” and Art Basel Miami Beach is happening this week and weekend in Miami.
He joined MCH's company Expomobilia in 2009 as New Business Manager and in 2014 he became Managing Director of Expomobilia (now MCH Live Marketing Solutions AG). In 2019, Florian Faber took over the management of the Live Marketing Solutions Division as a member of the Executive Board of MCH Group and was responsible for the repositioning and growth strategy of the brands MCH Global (Experiential Marketing Agency), MC2 (Brand Experience Solutions Provider) and Expomobilia (General Contractor Building Experiences). Before joining MCH Group, Florian Faber was responsible for Live Marketing Communication & Interactive Marketing in Europe at the Nissan car group. Florian Faber holds an Executive Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree from the University of Zurich.
MCH brands include Art Basel Basel, Art Basel Miami Beach, Paris+ par Art Basel, Art Basel Hong Kong, Design Miami, Habitat Jardin, Swiss Bau, Powertage, Weinfestival, Hack Zurich and the company owns spaces that include Messe Congress Center Basel and Messe Zurich.
MCH Group Ltd., is listed on the SIX Swiss Exchange and headquartered in Basel. It’s roots can be traced 108 years back to the “Schweizer Mustermesse” (est 1916) and Schweizer Mustermesse Cooperative (est 1920). In 2000, the Cooperative was converted into a joint stock company, followed by it merging with the exhibition company in Zurichin 2001 under the joint umbrella of MCH Swiss Exhibition (Holding) Ltd. The holding company was renamed MCH Group Ltd. in 2009.
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MCH Profile
CEO Appointment
Art Basel
On Bloomberg
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JONATHAN KANTER
This episode was recorded on November 18, 2024, the day when it was reported that Senior antitrust officials at the Justice Department plan to ask a judge to order Google to divest its Chrome web browser, Bloomberg reported citing anonymous sources. The department also intends to ask federal judge Amit Mehta, who declared Google's search engine a monopoly in August, to mandate actions concerning artificial intelligence and the Android mobile operating system. The enforcement actions are the product of the Justice Department’s multiyear case against Google which sought to prove that the tech giant has a web search monopoly in the U.S. The Justice Department won its case federal judge Amit Mehta ruled that Google broke antitrust laws in both online search and search text ads markets. The remedies are yet to be decided and will likely be fought in federal courts. Many parallels exist between this case and US v Standard Oil in the early 20th century and US v Microsoft in the early 21st century.
The remarkable person leading this effort which at its root goes to the heart of free markets, power and competition is Assistant Attorney General of the United States’ Department of Justice Antitrust Division. He is deeply thoughtful and his mind is expansive, especially at the intersection of the law, free markets. Prior to this, Kanter worked as an antitrust attorney at the FTC and in private practice. AAG Kanter is considered a critic of “big tech” and DOJ has worked to block a record number of mergers on antitrust grounds. During his tenure, the DOJ won its first conviction in a criminal monopolization suit in four decades
Jonathan has a very humble beginning in a working class neighborhood of Queens and graduated from SUNY Albany and Washington University School of Law. After graduating from law school, Kanter first worked as an antitrust lawyer at the FTC. He later worked in private practice, where he represented clients including Microsoft and Yelp as an associate at Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson. Kanter was later a partner at Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft followed by Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison.
Two other notable cases he has led include an antitrust suit related to JetBlue's attempted acquisition of Spirit, and one against Ticketmaster’s parent company Live Nation Entertainment. Upon filing the lawsuit, Kanter stated that "Live music should not be available only to those who can afford to pay the Ticketmaster tax".
Much of his work, as was his confirmation by the United States Senate, has broad support across party lines, a rare thing in today’s Washington.
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NYT Article
CNBC Segment
Wikipedia
Bloomberg Article
Stanford Graduate School of Business Talk
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LIZ HUEBNER
Liz currently serves on the boards of REI and Curology where she chairs the audit committee(s). She is a past board member and audit committee chair for three companies that are disrupting their respective industries: Blue Apron, Jumia Technologies and Boom Supersonic. She brings many years of executive finance experience and expertise to these roles, having served as CFO for several public companies, including Getty Images, Primus Knowledge Solutions, and Fluke Corporation. She was also a board member for the NACD's PNW Chapter, a non-profit organization that promotes board excellence and leadership.
Liz has a proven track record of delivering financial and operational results, driving growth and profitability, and executing strategic M&A transactions. She has also earned multiple honors and awards for her finance leadership, such as America's Best CFOs and Fellow of the NACD. She is passionate about supporting innovative and mission-driven companies that create value for their customers, shareholders, and society. She is committed to enhancing corporate governance, risk management, and ethical standards as a board member and committee chair.
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MARCELO DE SANTIS
Marcelo is as thoughtful, accomplished and smart as he is a terrific human being. Born and raised in Argentina, he is a seasoned C-suite executive with over 25 years of global experience. He also happens to be a world-class mountain climber that has summited some of the highest peaks on earth. He is former Chief Digital Officer at Thoughtworks, Group Chief Information Officer at Pirelli, and Chief Information Officer, North America at Mondelez.
He serves on the boards of UNICEF and HITEC and was co-founder of Angeles Investors, a venture capital organization dedicated to funding minority-owned technology startups. Marcelo also established Employee Resource Groups focused on diversity at Kraft Foods, Thoughtworks, and Mondelez, demonstrating his dedication to fostering an open and inclusive workplace culture. In 2019 he was nominated by Crain’s as one of Top 50 CEOs, entrepreneurs and technologists.
He is also a published author, the book: “Figure Eight: Leadership Strategies for Times of Exponential Technology Innovation” Marcelo earned his Executive MBA from the Kellogg School of Management and a B.S. in Computer Sciences from Universidad Argentina de la Empresa.
RELATED LINKS
Angeles Investors Profile
Thoughtworks Profile
The Ascent
Gartner Peer Community
Hispanic Executive Article
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ANILU VAZQUEZ-UBARRI
Anilu Vazquez-Ubarri is a Partner and Chief Operating Officer at TPG, based in San Francisco. She is a member of the firm’s board of directors and executive committee. As COO, Anilu leads TPG’s operational functions globally and is responsible for aligning these functions and strategy with the firm’s strategic business and investment priorities. She previously served as the firm’s Chief Human Resources Officer, responsible for creating and implementing a multi-year human resources strategy that institutionalized TPG’s culture of inclusivity, transparency, entrepreneurship, and innovation. Anilu is a founding member and executive sponsor of TPG NEXT, the firm’s strategy to seed and accelerate the growth of investment firms owned by underrepresented leaders.
Prior to joining TPG in 2018, Anilu was with Goldman Sachs for more than 11 years, where she last served as the firm’s Global Head of Talent and Chief Diversity Officer. She was an associate at Shearman & Sterling LLP in the Executive Compensation & Employee Benefits group from 2002 to 2007. Anilu currently serves on the boards of Greenhouse and Upwork, as well as on several non-profits and academic boards including The Vera Institute of Justice, Charter School Growth Fund, and the Fordham University School of Law Alumni Board. Anilu received an AB in History and Latin American Studies, cum laude, from Princeton University and a JD from Fordham University School of Law.
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TPG Profile
Beyond Barriers (podcast)
VC Changing Landscape (Fortune)
Latino Majority (interview)
Upwork (board profile)
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TOTG EXPERIMENTAL SERIES BY A.I. // POLICY, POLITICS, POLLS
This is the fourth of five (4/5) from our “Experimental Series by A.I.”. The machine talks about policy, politics and the upcoming election.. We gave NotebookLM a few disparate inputs and the machine created this great conversation.
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SETH LEVINE
Seth is co-founder and general partner at Boulder-based Foundry. He and his firm have invested in hundreds of companies and funds around the world. A driving force for Seth has always been the power at the intersection of community and business. He co-founded Pledge 1%, a global network of companies who have pledged equity, time, and product back to their local communities. He is on the board of StartupColorado, which promotes entrepreneurship in areas of Colorado outside of the front range and is a Trustee of Macalester College in St. Paul, MN, where he helped found their entrepreneurship program as well as a popular student hackathon. Seth also sits on multiple boards of his portfolio companies. He has been involved with Techstars from the start and helped grow from its very first accelerator in his home town of Boulder.
In addition to his day job working with companies and funds at Foundry, Seth spends time as an advisor to venture funds and companies around the globe – especially in the Middle East and Africa – to help promote entrepreneurship and economic development. In 2021, he released The New Builders: Face to Face with the True Future of Business, a book he co-authored with Elizabeth MacBride about the increasingly diverse future of entrepreneurship in America. He is currently in the process of writing his second around the theme of the evolution of capitalism and its future.
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Foundry
The Final Fund and Techcrunch take
The New Builders
VC Adventure
VC Evolve Podcast
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BISMARCK LEPE
Bismarck is Founder and Executive Chairman at Wizeline. He is a seasoned Silicon Valley entrepreneur and investor. He founded Wizeline in 2014 with the mission to help companies build better products faster by making innovation accessible to all organizations. Bismarck is Mexican-American and the son of two immigrants from a small town in Jalisco, Mexico. He left a successful career path as an early employee at Google to start his own online video platform company, Ooyala, which sold for $400M to Telstra in 2014. For more than a decade, Bismarck has pioneered Mexico-Silicon Valley cross-border collaboration with Ooyala and now at Wizeline. Bismarck is passionate about driving economic growth in the global communities where Wizeline operates. In 2015, he founded Startup GDL, a non-profit organization committed to making Guadalajara a leader in innovation.
He is passionate about driving economic growth and developing careers in the communities where Wizeline has operations through the investment in education and development of technology infrastructure. Bismarck has been credited as having contributed to the transformation of Guadalajara into a technology hub through StartupGDL and Wizeline Academy. He has generated over 1,500 jobs and attracted hundreds of millions in investments for companies with operations in Mexico and Silicon Valley.
His newest project is Hispanics in Tech: Almanac, a publication that showcases the positive contributions Hispanic technology founders are having on the broader industry and society. In his free time, Bismarck enjoys spending time with his family and is an avid runner. Bismarck graduated from Stanford with a BA in Economics.
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Wikipedia
Wizeline
Hispanics in Tech: Almanac
Nexus2024
Crossing Borders Podcast
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TOTG EXPERIMENTAL SERIES BY A.I. // FOOD & WORLD CUISINES
This is the third of five from our “Experimental Series by A.I.” The machine talks about different cuisines and dishes from around the world and why it’s so hard to pick a favorite, but it tries its best to digest all the articles and perspectives. We gave NotebookLM the inputs below and A.I. created this great conversation.
RELATED LINKS
100 Best Foods in the World -Delish
Most Popular Cuisines in the World- TimeOut
22 Best Dishes in the World - Holidify
100 Best Cuisines - TasteAtlas
14 Countries w/Best Food - Delish
These Countries have Great Food - USNews
NotebookLM
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TOTG EXPERIMENTAL SERIES BY A.I. // ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
This is the second of five from our “Experimental Series by A.I.” It is particularly interesting because it’s an A.I. generated conversation about A.I., the promise and peril of our relentless march towards AI → AGI (general) → eventually ASI (super). Top Of The Game fed Google’s NotebookLM five documents, links to the White House, MIT, Time, AEI and Google documents are below. The tool synthesized the conversation and it produced the podcast you are listening to. In fact, it is two different renditions of the inputs, you will notice where the first rendition ends and the second begins.
We gave NotebookLM the inputs and the machine created this remarkably nuanced conversation. It is a primer at the intersection of technoethics + artificial intelligence + society + public policy + technology disruption.This conversation, or a version of it, is something almost everyone is thinking and talking about today.
RELATED LINKS
Our Life with AI - Google (Public Policy)
Uncontrollable AI Risks - Time Magazine
AI Risk Repository - MIT
AI BIll of Rights - White House + OSTP
The Case for Optimism - American Enterprise Institute
NotebookLM
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TOTG EXPERIMENTAL SERIES BY A.I. // CAPITALISM
Top Of The Game (TOTG) fed Google’s NotebookLM a few documents, one of them: Milton Friedman's September 1970 essay, "The Social Responsibility of Business Is to Increase Its Profits.". We also fed it a few published recently looking at the viability of the profit maximization a.k.a. shareholder primacy premise in the context of capitalism evolving and the tension of the stakeholder/shareholder push and pull. The jaw dropping synthesis NotebookLM produced is the podcast you are listening to. We gave it the inputs and the machine created a conversation, the future is happening now in other words.
NotebookLM is a Google AI experiment that allows users to upload content - PDFs, text files, websites, YouTube video links, copied text, Google Docs and others. to a “notebook.” Each notebook is a folder that can contain dozens of discrete content items that you choose and control and of which one can ask questions, write new content based on the inputs, summarize and synthesize, basic but compellingly powerful inference analysis.
One of things NotebookLM can produce as an output is an “audio overview”, essentially a conversational style podcast-like dialogue between a male and a female rendered personas. The summaries aren’t weird or artificial, nor robotic fact recitations. They are conversations, human sounding. The subjects pause, hesitate, summarize and conclude, use “ummms and ahhhs”, natural and eerily human interventions and interruptions. It’s in equal parts amazing and halting. This conversation about capitalism is the output of one such NotebookLM.
Note: Our production company will continue to employ Javier to host the podcast. We are renegotiating his contract and hope to reach an agreement in the near future. Fans, stay tuned.
RELATED LINKS
NotebookLM
Friedman’s NYT 1970 Essay
The Value of Corporate Values Booz Allen
Long Term Capitalism McKinsey & Co
Make your Vakues Mean Something HBR
Business Roundtable Statement
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TOM SOTO BIO
Tom has been in the impact investing game for a long time. He was born and raised in East LA to two of the state’s most well-respected Latino Civil Rights leaders. His dad was Assemblyman Phil Soto, the first Latino elected to the state legislature in 1962. His mom was Nell Soto, she too served the last ten years of her life as a member and leader in the California State Senate. Impact runs through Tom’s blood.
Tom has owned four PE funds, one of which, Craton Equity Partners, he sold to T.C.W., and leads his family investment office, Latimer Partners, LLC with his husband of 19 years, Todd Soto. The focus has been at the intersection of energy, climate tech, carbon monetization, renewable energy, and other Fourth Industrial Revolution driven platforms.
He previously served as Chairman of the New America Alliance, founding Vice Chairman of the LA Clean Tech Incubator, Trustee of the California Science Center, Trustee of the NRDC, and Board Member of the Los Angeles Dodgers Foundation.
Tom is also a former member of the board of trustees of the Redwood Mutual Fund, owned by Aspiration, the neo bank. He is a former appointee of President Clinton and served on Obama’s Presidential Transition Team focused on the Council on Environmental Quality.
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ILEANA MUSA BIO
Ileana is Morgan Stanley’s Co-Head of International Wealth Management and the Head of International Banking & Lending. In these roles she leads the segment and strategy that focuses on Morgan Stanley’s International Client Advisors and international clients to ensure they have access to strategic solutions, services and thought leadership to address both sides of a client’s balance sheet. Prior to joining Morgan Stanley she was the Global Client Segment and Strategy executive for Merrill Lynch Wealth Management.
She has held leadership roles at the Association of Latino Professionals For America (ALPFA), Cherie Blair Foundation, Florida International University and Zoetic Stage. In 2017 and 2018, she was identified as one of the Top 50 Most Powerful Latinas in the U.S. by Fortune Magazine. On the Advisory Board of the Florida International University Honor’s College where students gain access to an education from one of the Top 100 Public Schools in the country. Ileana was recently named to ALPFA’s 2019 Most Powerful Latina list for a third year in a row and to Morgan Stanley’s 2019 MAKERS class.
Ileana received her BBA degree, with a concentration in finance, from the University of Miami and an M.B.A. degree in Finance from Florida International University.
Note: Happy Hispanic Heritage Month (HHM) to all. This is the first episode released during HHM 2024 and Ileana is a remarkable member of the Hispanic community in America.
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GARY ACOSTA BIO
Gary Acosta is an entrepreneur, public policy advocate, and investor. He is the Co-Founder & CEO of the National Association of Hispanic Real Estate Professionals (NAHREP ), one of the largest Hispanic business organizations in the nation. He also created the Hispanic Wealth Project, co-founded L’ATTITUDE, and is a general partner of its fund, L’ATTITUDE Ventures.
A self-described serial entrepreneur, Mr. Acosta has founded several mortgage, real estate, and technology companies, including New Vista Asset Management, which, between 2009 and 2013, managed and marketed more than 10,000 real estate assets for banks and other financial institutions, CounselorMax, a web-based process management system for non-profit housing counselors, and RealEstateEspanol.com, an online real estate portal for Spanish-speaking Americans, which eventually sold to a publicly traded company.
Gary served on the inaugural consumer advisory board (CAB) of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) and was a member of the boards of directors of the Mortgage Bankers Association of America and Stewart Title Company of California. He writes a weekly blog about business and current events at garyacosta.com. Gary grew up in Montebello, California and attended the University of California, at San Diego and Pomona College, where he played varsity basketball for Hall of Fame Coach, Gregg Popovich.
Note: Our first episode was released one day before last year’s L’Attitude with Gary’s co-founder as our guest, Sol Trujillo.
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EDUARDO PEÑALVER BIO
Eduardo M. Peñalver is President of Seattle University and previously served as the Dean of Cornell Law School. A coming home of sorts given his formative years were spent in Puyallup and Tacoma.
Professor Peñalver’s legal scholarship focuses on property and land use, as well as law and religion. His work explores the way in which the law mediates the interests of individuals and communities. His writing on property has appeared in numerous leading law journals. His book, Property Outlaws (co-authored with Sonia Katyal), published by Yale University Press in February 2010, explores the vital role of disobedience within the evolution of property law. His most recent book, An Introduction to Property Theory (co-authored with Gregory Alexander), was published by Cambridge University Press in 2011.
Professor Peñalver received his B.A. from Cornell University and his J.D. from Yale Law School. Between college and law school, he studied philosophy and theology as a Rhodes Scholar at Oriel College, Oxford. Upon completing law school, he clerked for Judge Guido Calabresi of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, and at the Supreme Court for Justice John Paul Stevens. Professor Peñalver previously served as the John P. Wilson Professor of Law at the University of Chicago Law School (2012-2014) and taught at Cornell Law School (2006-2012) and at Fordham Law School (2003-2006). He has also been a visiting professor at Harvard Law School and Yale Law School.
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Cesar was a civil rights, Latino, farm worker, and labor leader; a religious and spiritual figure; a community servant and social entrepreneur; a crusader for nonviolent social change; and an environmentalist and consumer advocate. In 1968, Chavez gained attention as leader of a nationwide boycott of California table grapes in a drive to achieve labor contracts. He fasted for 25 days in 1968 to affirm his own personal commitment and that of the farm labor movement to non-violence. He fasted again for 25 days in 1972, and in 1988, at the age of 61, he endured a 36-day "Fast for Life" to highlight the harmful impact of pesticides on farm workers and their children.
Cesar's life as a community organizer began in 1952 when he joined the Community Service Organization (CSO), a prominent Latino civil rights group. While with the CSO, Cesar coordinated voter registration drives and conducted campaigns against racial and economic discrimination primarily in urban areas. In the late 1950s and early 1960s, Cesar served as CSO's national director.
Cesar's dream, however, was to create an organization to protect and serve farm workers, whose poverty and disenfranchisement he had shared. In 1962, Cesar resigned from the CSO to found the National Farm Workers Association, which later became the United Farm Workers of America.
For more than three decades Cesar led the first successful farm workers union in American history, achieving dignity, respect, fair wages, medical coverage, pension benefits, and humane living conditions, as well as countless other rights and protections for hundreds of thousands of farm workers. Against previously insurmountable odds, he led successful strikes and boycotts that resulted in the first industry-wide labor contracts in the history of American agriculture. His union's efforts brought about the passage of the groundbreaking 1975 California Agricultural Labor Relations Act to protect farm workers. Today, it remains the only law in the nation that protects the farm workers' right to unionize.
The significance and impact of Cesar's life transcends any one cause or struggle. He was a unique and humble leader, in addition to being a great humanitarian and communicator who influenced and inspired millions of Americans to seek social justice and civil rights for the poor and disenfranchised in our society. Cesar forged a diverse and extraordinary national coalition of students, middle class consumers, trade unionists, religious groups, and minorities.
His motto in life – "Sí Se Puede!" (it can be done!) – embodies the uncommon and invaluable legacy he left for the world's benefit.
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This episode is the first dual release show for Top Of The Game. It was produced by and originally released on Evan Epstein's podcast, Boardroom Governance, on August 26, 2024. Our host enjoyed the tables being turned on him and being a guest, The conversation covers a broad range of topics: leadership, capitalism, boards, technology (AI), macro dynamics and the future. Original 🔗 here.
ABOUT EVAN
Evan is a corporate governance expert and has advised founders, executives, directors and investors for over 17 years in Silicon Valley and internationally. He has also been retained as an expert in corporate governance litigation both in the U.S. and abroad, and has deep experience with executive and director education. In 2023, Evan was named one of the most influential leaders in corporate governance by the National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD) as part of the 2023 NACD Directorship 100™, an annual list of leading corporate directors and governance advocates. He was included among the top 50 governance professionals "who exemplify the knowledge, leadership, and excellence that our organization promotes." In 2020, Evan was appointed as the inaugural Executive Director of the Center for Business Law, and Adjunct Professor of Law, at the University of California College of the Law, San Francisco (formerly UC Hastings).Also in 2020, Evan launched the Boardroom Governance Podcast, an in-depth interview podcast with leading corporate governance experts (boardroom-governance.com), and the Boardroom Governance Newsletter, a monthly newsletter including some of the latest trends and developments in corporate governance (evanepstein.substack.com). The Boardroom Governance Podcast has been rated the #1 corporate governance podcast by Feedspot "from thousands of podcasts on the web and ranked by traffic, social media followers, domain authority & freshness."Since 2017, Evan has been the Founder & Managing Partner of Pacifica Global, a corporate governance advisory firm. Before founding Pacifica Global, Evan was the Executive Director of the Arthur and Toni Rembe Rock Center for Corporate Governance, a joint initiative between Stanford Law School and the Stanford Graduate School of Business. He has also served as a Professor at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile Law School since 2011.
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