Michael Tubbs (City of Stockton) - Change Moves at the Speed of Trust

Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders (ETL)

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🗓️ 19 August 2020

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Description goes here.On November 8, 2016, Michael Tubbs was elected to serve as the mayor of the City of Stockton, California. Upon taking office in January 2017, Tubbs became both Stockton’s youngest mayor and the city’s first Black mayor. Among other accomplishments, he leveraged a $1 million grant to launch the nation’s first ever mayor-led guaranteed income pilot. Here, he talks about building trust with constituents and creating relationships and coalitions across political boundaries, and discusses solutions to pressing racial and economic inequities.

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0:00.0	Who you are defines how you build. This is Thought Leaders Revisited, a special summer
0:09.5	2020 edition of our Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders series. During this summer of uncertainty,
0:16.0	we're inviting some of the most influential past ETL speakers to join us for a series of new conversations
0:22.7	about innovation, leadership, and especially finding opportunities in the midst of a crisis.
0:29.9	On this episode, we're joined by Stockton Mayor Michael Tubbs.
0:33.3	He's Stockton's youngest and first African American mayor.
0:37.1	He's known for launching the Stockton Scholars Program,
0:40.2	which aims to triple the number of students entering
0:43.0	and graduating from college.
0:44.9	In addition, under his leadership,
0:47.2	Stockton became one of the first cities
0:49.3	to run a basic income pilot.
0:52.2	Welcome back to ETL.
0:53.9	Thank you so much for having me. So good to see you.
0:56.8	It's so great. Now, first, I want to wish you a happy 30th birthday. I know you had a birthday just
1:02.4	recently. And I must say you have done more in your 20s than most people have done in the lifetime.
1:09.6	So in this talk, we're going to do something special.
1:12.3	We're going to both reflect upon your visit back four years ago when you came to Stanford
1:17.4	and look to the future of what you're thinking about now. So we're going to play some short
1:21.7	clips along the way and highlight some of the remarkable work that you're doing as Stockton's mayor.
1:28.3	So I'd like to go back, take the Wayback Machine and start with a clip where you really
1:34.3	talk about listening to your users and extreme users in your community to really understand
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