Libby Schaaf

Schaaf was the 50th Mayor of Oakland, California and is currently a Harvard EdRedesign Lab Senior Fellow, Faculty Lecturer at UC Berkeley, and candidate for California Treasurer.

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How to Improve the UX of Government

The former Mayor of Oakland suggests that Trump's election indicates that Americans are fed up with out-dated government systems.

By Libby Schaaf

11 U.S. Mayors Advocate for Guaranteed Income

In 1967, against a backdrop of massive civil unrest, Dr. Martin Luther King wrote Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community? and called for the immediate abolition of poverty. In the richest nation...

By Michael D. Tubbs , Chokwe Antar Lumumba , Melvin Carter , Ras J. Baraka , Aja Brown , Eric Garcetti , Adrian Perkins , Libby Schaaf , Stephen Benjamin , Keisha Lance Bottoms and Victoria R. Woodards
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