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.
What’s your favorite thing about Los Angeles?
Being from San Francisco, the weather.
What do you wish you had the nerve to do?
Climbing Mount Everest would be nice.
What’s the ugliest piece of furniture you own?
My futon I think. I don’t sleep on it …
What’s your greatest vice?
I’m a health freak.
What’s the strangest job you’ve ever had?
I ran a waste management company—a garbage company, basically.
How do you procrastinate?
Sleep on it.
What was the last great party you attended?
An Oscar party at my house. I was making the cocktails.
What did you want to be when you grew up?
A rock star.
If you could be anyone in history, who would you be?
John F. Kennedy.
Even with dying young?
Even with dying young.