Crises disrupt. Crises test us. Crises force us to find new ways to function on the fly.
Zev Yaroslavsky knows this. How could he not after nearly 40 years in public office in Los Angeles?
The former longtime city councilman and county supervisor, who was at the center of our region’s every major moment for so long, knows just how much a crisis can teach us — about who we really are and what we need to care more about and what we have to do better and do differently.
So in April, at UCLA’s Luskin School of Public Affairs, right as students were showing up on Zoom to take it, he scrapped his plans for the graduate-level seminar he’s been teaching for the last four springs on the leaders, institutions and interests that shape Los Angeles’ civic policies and quality of life.
Read more at the Los Angeles Times.