\n35th-richest person in the world, who is funding efforts on immigration, education and independent media \u2026 before I could interview Laurene Powell Jobs, she wanted to interview me.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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In an era of tweets, she speaks in long, discursive paragraphs that weave together personal narrative, politics and her views on social change.<\/strong> She invokes Dante, Ralph Waldo Emerson and Ross Perot without irony. Her ideas are nuanced, and she doesn\u2019t pretend to have easy solutions to complex problems.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n
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\nIt\u2019s a diverse set of concerns, and reflects her belief that issues like poverty, education, personal health and environmental justice are all interconnected.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\nAs someone attuned to society\u2019s structural inequalities, Ms. Powell Jobs grasps the immensity of her privilege. She is a Silicon Valley billionaire, pushing back against the wealthy occupant of the White House.<\/strong> The very fact that such fortunes exist while others struggle to get by strikes her as unjust.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n
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\n\u201cIt\u2019s not right for individuals to accumulate a massive amount of wealth that\u2019s equivalent to millions and millions of other people combined,\u201d<\/strong> she said. \u201cThere\u2019s nothing fair about that.\u201d<\/p>\nAnd yet Ms. Powell Jobs is hardly apologetic. \u201cI inherited my wealth from my husband, who didn\u2019t care about the accumulation of wealth,\u201d she said. \u201cI am doing this in honor of his work, and I\u2019ve dedicated my life to doing the very best I can to distribute it effectively, in ways that lift up individuals and communities in a sustainable way.<\/strong><\/p>\n\u201cI\u2019m not interested in legacy wealth buildings, and my children know that,\u201d she added. \u201cSteve wasn\u2019t interested in that. If I live long enough, it ends with me.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n
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\nOne profound learning I took from him was that we don\u2019t have to accept the world that we\u2019re born into as something that is fixed and impermeable.<\/strong> When you zoom in, it\u2019s just atoms just like us. And they move all the time. And through energy and force of will and intention and focus, we can actually change it. Move it.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n
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\nPeople love to quote him saying, \u201cPut a dent in the universe.\u201d But that\u2019s too flippant. It\u2019s too cavalier. He was thinking of it as \u201cWe are able, each of us, to manipulate the circumstances.\u201d I think about it as looking at the design of the structures and systems that govern our society, and changing those structures. Because those structures, when they\u2019re elegantly designed, should be frictionless for people.<\/strong> They shouldn\u2019t require you to make huge course corrections that impede your ability to live a productive and fulfilling life. It took me a while to understand that was truly possible. But that\u2019s at the core of everything we do at Emerson Collective. We all believe that it\u2019s truly possible.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n
\nQ: How did College Track, which was very narrowly focused on education, lead to Emerson Collective, which is working on a much broader set of issues?<\/p>\n
A: I came in through the education door, looking at equity and access of quality education. And of course that was connected to immigration and health and well-being, and clean air, water and soil, and access to opportunity, and also other obstacles that are thrown in the way of impoverished communities, like lack of access to financial services and health services. All of that has to be addressed in a holistic way, and that\u2019s why we started building a matrix organization.<\/strong> I wanted our organization to be just as connected as all the issues that we\u2019re working on.<\/p>\nOur very first graduating class of seniors at College Track included students who were undocumented. They only found out when they were applying to college that they didn\u2019t have a Social Security number. They had come when they were toddlers. And then we all realized that means that they had to apply as international students. They couldn\u2019t access any state or federal funding for education, even though they had grown up here. I thought, this is an obvious glitch in our immigration system. It was obviously a federal law that needed to be changed.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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