Workforce Expert Caz Pereira

A Health Freak Who Loves JFK

Caz Pereira is a workforce expert with Bay Area-based nonprofit Growth Sector. Before participating in a panel on whether or not most of us need algebra, he bragged on his mixology and hated on his futon in the Zócalo green room.

Q:

What’s your favorite thing about Los Angeles?


A:

Being from San Francisco, the weather.


Q:

What do you wish you had the nerve to do?


A:

Climbing Mount Everest would be nice.


Q:

What’s the ugliest piece of furniture you own?


A:

My futon I think. I don’t sleep on it …


Q:

What’s your greatest vice?


A:

I’m a health freak.


Q:

What’s the strangest job you’ve ever had?


A:

I ran a waste management company—a garbage company, basically.


Q:

How do you procrastinate?


A:

Sleep on it.


Q:

What was the last great party you attended?


A:

An Oscar party at my house. I was making the cocktails.


Q:

What did you want to be when you grew up?


A:

A rock star.


Q:

If you could be anyone in history, who would you be?


A:

John F. Kennedy.


Q:

Even with dying young?


A:

Even with dying young.