Thursday, Feb. 2
7:30 to 9:00 PM
Seattle First Baptist Church
1111 Harvard Ave, Seattle
Moderator - Eleanor Licata
Speakers -
Don Comstock, PhD, Stanford, teaches political economics in the graduate Management and Leadership program and the Environment and Community program at Antioch University. Don has created and led public and nonprofit organizations in fostering community development and community-based economic development. He also has consulted with public agencies and small businesses and published in the areas of organizational and community change, critical theory and participatory research.
Nora Leech is a member of the National League Study Committee on Privatization and was the chair of the Seattle League's 2009 study on Privatization. She currently serves as the chair of the Seattle League's Economics and Taxation committee and serves on the State League's Lobby Team. Nora is a long-time member of the League as was her grandmother before her.
Jim Sawyer, a political economist at Seattle University, writes extensively on "root causes" of economic dysfunction, particularly within the realm of economic ideas. At the beginning of the Great Recession, he was working in France as a Fulbright Scholar and publishing in Belgium, France, Great Britain and the United States.
